George Jones

George Jones sits in a category of his own for me. You could build an entire case for his greatness on "He Stopped Loving Her Today" alone, and he gave us decades more beyond it. That voice, those bends and pauses, earned him the nickname of the greatest living country singer, plus a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and Kennedy Center Honors. What moves me is how his hard living seemed to pour straight into the music rather than diminish it. The pain made the songs truer. I'm a sucker for artists who are loved for their scars as much as their gifts, and he's the patron saint of that.

Name (English)

George Jones

Name (Japanese)

ジョージ・ジョーンズ

Reading

じょーじ・じょーんず

Born

September 12, 1931 – April 26, 2013

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Goat

Origin

Saratoga, Texas, United States

Occupation

country singer / songwriter / country musician / guitarist / singer-songwriter

Awards & achievements

• National Medal of Arts
• 2012 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
• Kennedy Center Honors

• Official sitehttp://www.georgejones.com
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Jones
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q508202

Tags

• Texas
• country singer
• songwriter
• country musician

Last updated

2026-06-17

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