Meher gill biography of george jones

Account Options Logga in. Bob Allen. George Jones's nearly year recording and performing career has had a profound influence on modern country music and influenced a younger generation of singers, including Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, Randy Travis, Tim McGraw, and Trace Adkins. He was born into near poverty in a backwater patch of East Texas.

His formal education ended early; by his early teens, he was singing on the streets of Beaumont, Texas, for tips. After beginning to record in the mids Jones became, by sheer dint of his vocal prowess, one of Nashville's most celebrated honky-tonk singers. But from the start, Jones's life, as often reflected in his music, was shaped by misdirection, chaos, turmoil, and emotional strife aggravated by a ferocious appetite for alcohol.

Fame and adulation seemed to merely intensify his personal travails.

Born in a rough-cut log

Jones's story has a relatively happy ending. With the help of fourth wife Nancy during the final decade and a half of his life, he got clean and sober, was feted as a much-revered elder statesman for the music, and, by most accounts, found peace of mind at long last. As a writer and editor, he has also contributed to several Time-Life music publications as well as the Country Music Foundation's Encyclopedia of Country Music.