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| Pastemagazine |
 This million-and-first George Jones compilation brings back 34 songs from 1965 to 1971, when he recorded for Musicor—the period when the singer’s style matured from raw honky-tonk to country-music elder status. It’s the favorite era of a lot of Jones fans, and it’s not hard to hear why: The singer takes to the epic pathos of “Sometimes You Just Can’t Win,” the high-spirited “Love Bug” and the break-up-to-make-up duet with Melba Montgomery “We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds” like a fish to water. Pruning from some 250 songs recorded during the era, The Great Lost Hits is truthfully titled—only five titles didn’t make the country charts, and “The Honky Tonk Downstairs” was previously unissued in the U.S.—and it’s a great way to introduce yourself to country music’s finest vocalist....full text |
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| Cduniverse |
| This double-disc compilation of George Jones' singles has a bit of a misnomer attached as a title: none of these tracks were actually "lost." These recordings were cut for Pappy Daily's Musicor label and were the subject of a legal dispute for a number of years that was only settled in the early years of the 21st century. Recordings for Starday (another Daily label), United Artists, Mercury, and Epic have ben released, but these remained back in the vault after the LPs and cassettes they were originally released on went out of print. The material here is simple, much more sparse and direct than the Billy Sherrill-produced sides for Epic. The songs contain immediacy, warmth and country music classicism. Well-known cuts, such as "Walk Through This World with Me," "A Good Year for the Roses," "Four-0-Thirty-Three," "When the Grass Grows Over Me," "Old Brush Arbors," "Love Bug," "I'm a People," and "I'll Share My World with You" are presented in their original versions. Some of these songs were re-recorded at Epic. Other tunes that are well-known by other artists -- "Beneath Still Waters" and "Your Angel Steps Out of Heaven," later recorded by Emmylou Harris and the Flying Burrito Brothers, respectively, to great renown -- were inspired by the Jones' versions included here. All of disc one and nine of the 17 cuts on disc two were Jones' singles. The rest of disc two is comprised of carefully chosen LP cuts, including a great reading of Dallas Frazier"s "The Honky Tonk Downstairs," which has never been released in North America before. There is a pair of duets here, the classic "We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds" recorded with Melba Montgomery, and "Milwaukee, Here I Come" with Brenda Carter. The listener can also hear a vocal by an un-credited Tammy Wynette on "Never Grow Cold" (though she is given attribution as the song's composer) from a 1971 album entitled With Love. This package has been given Time-Life's trademark excellent treatment: good pictures and album cover reproductions, terrific sound, and and a set of liner notes by Colin Escott that are typically informative and beautifully researched. ~ Thom Jurek...full text |
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| Recordcollectormag |
Jones was one of country’s most prolific stars of the 60s, often issuing as many as four albums a year, but shoddy duplicating has long left fans frustrated when trying to collect his work on compact disc. Happily, the bulk of the 34 selections on this set have been given some care and attention for the first time, pristine remasters of a voice once described as the Sinatra of Nashville.
Covering George’s tenure at Musicor between 1965 and 1972, it represents an important transition in his career: the bridge from wild hillbilly roots to his emergence as an elder statesman. The massed backing vocals of If My Heart Had Windows or A Good Year For The Roses threaten to smother perfectly servicable songs in unnecessary syrup, but the stripped-back clarity of the self-penned Take Me or the reserved waltz of Say It’s Not You go a long way to defining the man’s brilliance....full text |
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