George Jones was born on September 12th, 1931, in the East Texas town of Saratoga. Later moving with his family to nearby Beaumont in 1942, the same year in which he got his first guitar. His family was always poor, and in his youth he would sing on the street corner for any loose change that a passerby might throw his way. Eventually he gained enough experience to be able to sing on the local radio station in Beaumont, KRIC, where he briefly met his inspiration and primary influence, Hank Williams.
He had his first chart hit in 1955 with "Why Baby Why," a song which became and even bigger hit when Webb Pierce and Red Sovine recorded it together and scored a massive #1 hit with it in the same year. As with most of his early hits, it was a classic Honky Tonk song. While George started off in the Honky Tonk tradition of Hank Williams,
Lefty Frizzell and Ray Price. George eventually moved towards a emotional style, which is what brought him his greatest fame. As George Jones once said " I wanted to sound like Hank Williams, but I phrased like Lefty, I made five syllables out of one."
Goerge Jones
By joleaminix
George Jones is many things to many people. He is the finest, most nuanced, and most melodic singer to ever s... More