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Bob Allen
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George Jones' nearly 60-year recording and performing career has
had a profound influence on modern country music and influenced a
younger generation of singers, including Garth Brooks, Alan
Jackson, Randy Travis, Tim McGraw, and Trace Adkins. As Merle
Haggard said of Jones in Rolling Stone magazine, His voice was like
a Stradivarius violin: one of the greatest instruments ever made.
Jones' saga is a larger-than-life tale of rags to riches and back
to rags again. He was born into near poverty in a backwater patch
of East Texas. His formal education ended early; by his early
teens, he was singing on the streets of Beaumont, Texas, for tips.
After beginning to record in the mid-1950s Jones became, by sheer
dint of his vocal prowess, one of Nashville's most celebrated
honky-tonk singers. But from the start, Jones' life, as often
reflected in his music, was shaped by misdirection, chaos, turmoil,
and emotional strife aggravated by a ferocious appetite for
alcohol. Fame and adulation seemed to merely intensify his personal
travails. Jones' story has a relatively happy ending. With the help
of fourth wife Nancy during the final decade and a half of his
life, he got clean and sober, was feted as a much-revered elder
statesman for the music, and, by most accounts, found peace of mind
at long last.
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