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Billy Sherrill and Glenn Sutton wrote this one for David Houston first - he took it to #1 in August 1966 and held that ...
09/12/2026

Billy Sherrill and Glenn Sutton wrote this one for David Houston first - he took it to #1 in August 1966 and held that spot nine straight weeks, a chart run that stood as a record for 46 years until Taylor Swift finally beat it in 2012. Wynette cut her own version a year later for her debut album, "Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad," alongside "Don't Come Home A-Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)" - one more voice added to a song already covered by George Jones, Merle Haggard, Dottie West, and even Louis Armstrong. The story itself is simple: a married man nearly gives in to temptation in a bar, then catches his wedding ring's reflection and walks away.
🎶 Tammy Wynette - Almost Persuaded 🎶 The duet in the comments 👇

James Taylor wrote and recorded this first for his 1977 album "JT," explicitly with Jones in mind - "it was definitely 1...
09/11/2026

James Taylor wrote and recorded this first for his 1977 album "JT," explicitly with Jones in mind - "it was definitely 100 percent George Jones that I was trying to do," Taylor later said, calling him a huge influence. A CBS executive played Jones a demo of Taylor's version, and Jones liked it enough to record his own vocal and send the tape across the country for Taylor to overdub harmony on top of it. It became Jones's first Top 10 hit in two years, reaching #6, right as his own real-life alcohol and co***ne addiction was spiraling - Jones later admitted he usually needed three or four drinks just to get through most studio sessions during this stretch of his career.
🎶 George Jones - Bartender's Blues 🎶 The duet in the comments 👇

"God's Gonna Get'cha (For That)" came out in June 1975, the same year George Jones and Tammy Wynette's marriage finally ...
09/11/2026

"God's Gonna Get'cha (For That)" came out in June 1975, the same year George Jones and Tammy Wynette's marriage finally ended. It came from George & Tammy & Tina, an album named after Wynette's eight-year-old daughter from a previous marriage, whom Jones had adopted along with her sisters. Tina appears on the record herself, singing "No Charge" with her mother and "The Telephone Call" with her stepfather, both released as their own single the year before. The family-themed album arrived right as the actual family was falling apart behind the scenes. This single only reached #25, a modest showing compared to the album's opening track, "We Loved It Away," which hit #8. 🎙️ An album built around blended family closeness came out just as that family was quietly ending.
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Written by Roy Acuff, whose music left a deep mark on Jones as a child growing up on Acuff's hymn-like, mountain-ballad ...
09/11/2026

Written by Roy Acuff, whose music left a deep mark on Jones as a child growing up on Acuff's hymn-like, mountain-ballad style. Jones later said, "I loved Roy Acuff with all my heart, and I never dreamed I'd be able to meet him or see him onstage, or especially become good friends with him" - a dream that came true years after this song. Originally recorded by the Bailes Brothers in 1946, Jones's own 1968 version leans so close in structure and guitar intro to his earlier hit "Walk Through This World with Me" that critics have long noted the resemblance.
🎶 George Jones - As Long As I Live 🎶 The duet in the comments 👇

Written by Billy Sherrill and Glenn Sutton, this became Wynette's second solo #1, released December 1967 right after he...
09/10/2026

Written by Billy Sherrill and Glenn Sutton, this became Wynette's second solo #1, released December 1967 right after her breakout hit "I Don't Wanna Play House" had just topped the chart that same October. Both singles landed on the same album - "Take Me to Your World / I Don't Wanna Play House" - which also folded in covers of the era's hits, including Bobbie Gentry's "Ode to Billie Joe." AllMusic's Richie Unterberger later called it a strong, sensitively produced outing, right at the moment Sherrill and Wynette were beginning to define the Nashville Sound heartbreak-ballad formula that would carry her through the rest of the decade.
🎶 Tammy Wynette - Take Me to Your World 🎶 The duet in the comments 👇

Nobody has ever figured out who actually wrote "Just a Closer Walk with Thee." Gospel composer Kenneth Morris only stumb...
09/10/2026

Nobody has ever figured out who actually wrote "Just a Closer Walk with Thee." Gospel composer Kenneth Morris only stumbled onto it in 1940, standing on a train platform in Kansas City when he overheard a porter singing part of it to himself. Morris wrote down what he heard, added a few lyrics of his own, and published it that same year. Circumstantial evidence points back to African American churches in the South from the second half of the 1800s, but no name has ever been confirmed. It went on to become the signature tune of New Orleans jazz funerals and got recorded by everyone from Mahalia Jackson to Johnny Cash to George Jones, who included it on his 2003 album Amazing Grace. 🎹 A song nobody can claim still ended up belonging to everybody.
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Four. That's how many record labels, Decca, Hickory, Kapp, and Musicor, turned Tammy Wynette down before Epic finally si...
09/10/2026

Four. That's how many record labels, Decca, Hickory, Kapp, and Musicor, turned Tammy Wynette down before Epic finally signed her in 1966. Written by producer Billy Sherrill and Glenn Sutton, this title track became her second single, released in February 1967, and it changed everything. It climbed to No. 3 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart that June, her first real chart success after years of rejection while raising three kids alone in Nashville. The song's playful, defiant edge, a "good girl" threatening to misbehave, became one of her signature early hits.
💃🎶 Tammy Wynette - Your Good Girl’s Gonna Go Bad 🎶 The duet in the comments 👇

How does a song written in 1940 end up connecting a Texas honky-tonk bandleader, a Beatle, and a country legend decades ...
09/09/2026

How does a song written in 1940 end up connecting a Texas honky-tonk bandleader, a Beatle, and a country legend decades apart? Ted Daffan first recorded it with his band The Texans, then Les Paul and Mary Ford rode it to No. 6 on the pop chart in 1954. Ringo Starr even cut his own version for his 1970 solo debut, "Sentimental Journey." George Jones brought it full circle as a duet with pop crooner Gene Pitney, proving a simple three-chord lament about unrequited love never really goes out of style. Some songs just refuse to stay in one decade. 🎶
🎶 George Jones - I’m a Fool to Care 🎶 The duet in the comments 👇

By the time George Jones cut "If Drinkin' Don't Kill Me (Her Memory Will)" in early 1981, fans didn't need to guess whet...
09/09/2026

By the time George Jones cut "If Drinkin' Don't Kill Me (Her Memory Will)" in early 1981, fans didn't need to guess whether he meant it. He'd spent the previous few years missing so many shows that promoters started calling him "No Show Jones," and he'd checked into a psychiatric hospital in Muscle Shoals to deal with the drinking and co***ne use that followed his divorce from Tammy Wynette. The song landed as the third single off I Am What I Am, peaking at number 8, on the same album that gave the world "He Stopped Loving Her Today." Nobody had to sell listeners on the pain in his voice.
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💔 Accidentally on Purpose - George Jones (1960)Written by Jones himself with Darrell Edwards, this was tucked away as th...
09/09/2026

💔 Accidentally on Purpose - George Jones (1960)
Written by Jones himself with Darrell Edwards, this was tucked away as the B-side to "Sparkling Brown Eyes" on Mercury Records in 1960. The narrator accuses a former lover of marrying someone else out of pure spite, not real love - a deliberate act dressed up as an accident. It reached #16 on the country chart, and two years later Johnny Cash picked it up for his own album, "The Sound of Johnny Cash."
🎶 George Jones - Accidentally on Purpose 🎶 The duet in the comments 👇

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