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From the Stacks: George Jones Sings Bob Wills

If you want country the way nature intended it, you can’t do much better than 1962’s George Jones Sings Bob Wills.  That is, unless you skip the intermediary George Jones step and pick up some Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys. I’d argue that point with you, though.  Sure, Wills (and Hank and and and…)…

george jones sings bob willsIf you want country the way nature intended it, you can’t do much better than 1962’s George Jones Sings Bob Wills.  That is, unless you skip the intermediary George Jones step and pick up some Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys.

I’d argue that point with you, though.  Sure, Wills (and Hank and and and…) got there first, but Jones and his counterparts up through the early to mid-seventies took their predecessors’ blueprints and made them into something new.  I think I just argued that George Jones just did for Bob Wills what Led Zeppelin did for Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon.  Let the internet trouncing begin.

Now, about that cover: A flat top and a Nudie suit with an Eisenhower jacket.  Bad Album Cover Hall of Fame worthy?  I’m listening.

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Responses to “From the Stacks: George Jones Sings Bob Wills”

  1. Corey Guthrie

    Strange how the post was done 6 days before his death, he has forever been one of my favorites, really tore me up when he passed I tell ya. Great post, thank you for sharing…

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  2. Thom Hickey

    Thanks. George remains the heavyweight champ of country singing. You might enjoy the immortal jukebox tribute to him http://wp.me/p4pE0N-N Regards thom

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  3. Dredge Slug

    foisted?

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  4. James Stafford

    I think it’s decided — George Sings Bob goes to the BACHOF.

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  5. Kelly Mahan Jaramillo

    Well, since I am late to this one, and George has now left us, would he feel honored to be in the BACHOF? George’s get-up, with the matching embroidery on the boots, pants, and jacket, scream to be included. I think he would have agreed before he went off to play for his new audience.

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  6. James Stafford

    We’re split on whether George Sings Bob is Bad Album Cover Hall of Fame worthy. Who’s going to be my tie breaker?

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  7. laura b.

    That song is killer. I always say I dislike country music…but I don’t mean this kind.

    Now, the outfit is pretty bad. I know he has been quite a troublemaker, but that smile is very sweet. My vote is hanging here….I am going with…seize him! BACHoF!

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  8. James Stafford

    Sounds like one vote to keep George Sings Bob out of the Bad Album Cover Hall of Fame. Who else is going to weigh in?

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  9. Matt De Mello (@MattKDeMello)

    I’m pretty sure that it’s a jumpsuit with a flat top. I also contend that while now it looks horrifically antiquated, then it was as common as long hair with one side shaved (damn I’ve been hoisted by my own petard).

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