{"id":8034,"date":"2016-08-26T13:51:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T12:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/?p=8034"},"modified":"2016-08-26T13:51:20","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T12:51:20","slug":"george-jones-scenester-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/george-jones-scenester-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"George Jones – Scenester Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Picture Of Me (Without You) & Nothing Ever Hurt Me (Half as Bad as Losing You)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Morello MRLL57<\/em><\/p>\n

It is surely impossible to overrate the importance of George Jones to modern music, with his long, somewhat chequered career that nevertheless netted him some 150 hit records, his numerous marriages and divorces, and his more enduring relationship with the bottle. Two George Jones LPs from his troubled 1970\u2019s on one CD is still too good an offer to pass up, and those good people at Morello have done the honours.<\/p>\n

\u2018A Picture of Me (Without You)\u2019 begins with the eponymous title track, a piano stroll with simple words, gently crooned. \u2018The Man worth Lovin\u2019 You\u2019s lively tune doesn\u2019t turn away totally from the country singer\u2019s standard yearning, but perhaps George\u2019s voice isn\u2019t up to the swell in the tune. \u2018She Knows What She\u2019s Crying About\u2019 would win few points for sensitivity from the ladies, but does show a vulnerable side, among the bravado of the lyric.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s \u2018Second Handed Flowers\u2019 which takes an early prize for a strong, regretful lament, a mawkish tale of a man who goes on a visit to an old girlfriend, only to find he\u2019s not the only one with flowers in his hand. \u2018That Singing Friend of Mine\u2019s tall tales, heavenly choir and a clear indication as to the subject of the song, possesses an element of comedy that lightens the collection nicely. \u2018She Loves Me (Right out Of My Mind)\u2019s slow, sweet tribute to the distaff side has a few strange key changes to prepare you for the sorrowful ending.<\/p>\n

\u2018Tomorrow Never Comes\u2019 would win few points from the soon to be married, and its basic hopeless message may be a step too far even for aficionados lovelorn country-style, leaving it to the wistful, pleasant, \u2018Another Way To Say Goodbye\u2019 to bring us back into something like a comfort zone. \u2018On The Back Row\u2019s guitar twanger has more going for it than meets the ear, with its slightly misleading title and its faint hope of reconciliation, is hokey, yet touching.<\/p>\n

\u2018Let there be a Woman\u2019s religious references may put off many of you born outside of the Bible Belt, but \u2018We Found a Match\u2019s down home simple metaphor for new-found love would warm the heart of even an old curmudgeon like me.<\/p>\n

Segueing straight into LP2, \u2018Nothing Ever Hurt Me (As Bad As Losing You)\u2019 sets up a jokey hoe-down, and it\u2019s all the better for it. \u2018You\u2019re Looking At A Happy Man\u2019s song of freedom from a bad woman might not sit too neatly in the Gospel style it\u2019s played in, but it\u2019s cheerful and it has a fine guitar part to stretch your legs to. \u2018Never having you\u2019 continues the happy tone, a routine strummer but not unpleasant. After all this uncharacteristic country jollity, \u2019Made For The Blues\u2019 comes as a jarring but welcome change, the sad harmonica and plodding beat underlining the inevitability of feelin\u2019 blue.<\/p>\n

\u2018What\u2019s Your Mama\u2019s Name?\u2019 is played as a heartfelt tale of love and longing, in the way only Country can. \u2018Mom And Dad\u2019s Waltz\u2019 tugs at the heartstrings (again) in something that\u2019s more a tale of child estrangement than everlasting love. \u2018You\u2019ll Never Grow Old (To Me)\u2019s backhanded compliment works well, although another plodder when it comes to rhythm, and \u2018What My Woman Can\u2019t Do\u2019 turns cynicism on its head for a genuine, and long overdue tribute to the womenfolk. \u2018My Loving Wife\u2019 follows straight after, and it would take a lady with a tolerant sense of humour to see the funny side of this man\u2019s dissipated ways.<\/p>\n

\u2018Love Lives Again\u2019s expectation of eternally renewing love can\u2019t be faulted for its optimism, the LP ending with \u2018Wine (You\u2019ve Used Me Long Enough)\u2019 a bitter lament for an old lover. George ain\u2019t kiddin\u2019 \u2018bout it, neither. BUY HERE!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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