In the book George Jones: The Life and Times of a Honky Tonk Legend, Bob Allen recounts how George Washington Jones would return home in the middle of the night with his cronies roaring drunk, wake up a terrified George Glenn Jones, and demand that he sing for them or face a beating. In his autobiography I Lived To Tell It All, Jones explains that the early death of his sister Ethel spurred on his father's drinking problem, and by all accounts, George Washington Jones could be physically and emotionally abusive to his wife and children when he drank.
Jones recalled to Billboard in 2006 that he would lie in bed with his parents on Saturday nights listening to the Grand Ole Opry and insist that his mother wake him if he fell asleep so he could hear Roy Acuff or Bill Monroe. When he was seven, his parents bought a radio, and he heard country music for the first time. During his delivery, one of the doctors dropped Jones and broke his arm. His father, George Washington Jones, worked in a shipyard and played harmonica and guitar, while his mother, Clara (née Patterson), played piano in the Pentecostal Church on Sundays. George Glenn Jones was born on September 12, 1931, in Saratoga, Texas, and was raised in Colmesneil, Texas, with his brother and five sisters in the Big Thicket region of southeast Texas. Jones died in 2013, aged 81, from hypoxic respiratory failure. After his divorce from Wynette in 1975, Jones married his fourth wife, Nancy Sepulvado, in 1983 and became sober for good in 1999. Years of alcoholism compromised his health and led to his missing many performances, earning him the nickname "No Show Jones".
His second marriage ended in divorce in 1968 he married fellow country music singer Tammy Wynette a year later. In 1959, Jones recorded " White Lightning", written by The Big Bopper, which launched his career as a singer. He served in the United States Marine Corps and was discharged in 1953. He married his first wife, Dorothy Bonvillion, in 1950, and was divorced in 1951. His earliest influences were Roy Acuff and Bill Monroe, although the artistry of Hank Williams and Lefty Frizzell would crystallize his vocal style. Jones has been called "The Rolls-Royce of Country Music" and had more than 160 chart singles to his name from 1955 until his death in 2013.īorn in Texas, Jones first heard country music when he was seven, and was given a guitar at the age of nine.
Country music scholar Bill Malone writes, "For the two or three minutes consumed by a song, Jones immerses himself so completely in its lyrics, and in the mood it conveys, that the listener can scarcely avoid becoming similarly involved." The shape of his nose and facial features earned Jones the nickname "The Possum". For the last two decades of his life, Jones was frequently referred to as the greatest living country singer. He achieved international fame for his long list of hit records, including his best-known song " He Stopped Loving Her Today", as well as his distinctive voice and phrasing. George Glenn Jones (Septem– April 26, 2013) was an American country musician, singer, and songwriter.
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