CD Details
- Number of Discs: 3
- Released: November 9, 2004
- Label: Bandit Records
Entertainment Reviews:
Entertainment Weekly - p.93
"Strict chronology allows for fun realizations..." -
Grade: A
Tracks on Disc 1:
- 1.Why Baby Why
- 2.Just One More
- 3.Tall Tall Trees
- 4.Color of the Blues
- 5.White Lightning
- 6.Window Up Above
- 7.Tender Years
- 8.She Thinks I Still Care
- 9.You Comb Her Hair
- 10.The Race Is On
- 11.We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds
- 12.Still Doin' Time
- 13.Walk Through This World With Me
- 14.She's Mine
- 15.I'll Share My World With You
- 16.A Good Year for the Roses
- 17.Take Me
Tracks on Disc 2:
- 1.Picture of Me, A (Without You)
- 2.Once You've Had the Best
- 3.The Grand Tour
- 4.These Days I Barely Get By
- 5.Her Name Is...
- 6.Near You
- 7.Bartender's Blues
- 8.Night Life
- 9.He Stopped Loving Her Today
- 10.Yesterday's Wine
- 11.Same Ole Me
- 12.I Always Get Lucky With You
- 13.She's My Rock
- 14.Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes
- 15.One I Loved Back Then, The (The Corvette Song)
- 16.The Right Left Hand
- 17.Radio Lover
Tracks on Disc 3:
- 1.I'm a One Woman Man
- 2.A Few Ole Country Boys
- 3.You Couldn't Get the Picture
- 4.Finally Friday
- 5.I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair
- 6.High-Tech Redneck
- 7.One
- 8.I Must Have Done Something Bad
- 9.When Did You Stop Loving Me
- 10.Wild Irish Rose
- 11.Choices
- 12.The Cold Hard Truth
- 13.Beer Run (B Double E Double Are You In?)
- 14.50,000 Names
- 15.I Got Everything
- 16.Amazing Grace
Product Description:
Personnel: George Jones (vocals, guitar); Melba Montgomery (vocals); Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, Merle Haggard, Randy Travis, Tammy Wynette, Waylon Jennings.
Liner Note Author: George Jones.
Even the title of the three-disc George Jones collection 50 YEARS OF HITS should be enough to tell you that the man being anthologized is one of the all-time giants of country music. A towering influence on all that followed him, not only in country but in rock and pop as well, Jones started out in the 1950s as a Hank Williams-influenced honky-tonk man who wasn't afraid of a little rockabilly either (the Hank influence is clearly audible on such early tracks as "Just One More"). By the '60s, he'd refined his approach, taking a bit from the jazz-inflected style of Lefty Frizzell and becoming a striking balladeer. "She Thinks I Still Care" and "Color of the Blues" stand as templates for how to sing a country ballad.
For most performers, that would have been enough, but Jones never stopped turning out heart-stopping performances. This is underscored by the presence of the mid-period mind-blower "He Stopped Loving Her Today," which reaches a superhuman level of pathos, and latter-day tracks such as the unstintingly bleak "The Cold Hard Truth," as well as the high-spirited, good-humored "Beer Run (B Double E Double Are You In?)." In case future generations want to know what country music was all about back in the 20th century, there should be a copy of 50 YEARS OF HITS placed in a time capsule.
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