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George Jones - Walk Through This World With Me [Import]

Walk Through This World With Me [Import]
George Jones
CD BOX Rel Date: 2011-03-11
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No other period of George Jones' long, legendary career is as murky and mysterious as his stint at Musicor, his home from 1965 through 1971. He left United Artists for Musicor after "The Race Is On" topped the charts in 1964, once again following his producer, mentor, and manager, Pappy Daily, to new, seemingly greener pastures that just happened to be financially advantageous to Pappy. George was UA's flagship country artist, but Musicor had only one other hit-maker on it's roster and that was Gene Pitney, the operatic pop singer who flirted with country music in 1965, the year George joined Musicor, and a year after the British Invasion stole much of Pitney's pop audience. George and Gene cut two albums' worth of duets which brought them both a bit of crossover, but Pitney's star continued to fade in the late '60s as Jones' burned bright, so Daily did what any huckster would: he ran his lone star into the ground, having him record almost 300 sides in just over six years, flooding the market with singles and LPs, churning out records - on Musicor as well as RCA and it's budget-line Camden offshoot - well after George severed ties with Musicor and Pappy by buying out his contract in 1971. In a fitting irony, this profligate parade of product found it's counterpart in an utter dearth of CD reissues of Musicor material. A handful of cuts showed up on Rhino's 1991 the Best of George Jones, the Pitney duets were collected on a generous 1994 CD by Bear Family, the same years some cuts appeared on a two-disc retrospective from Epic called the Essential George Jones: The Spirit of Country, but the bulk of the Musicor recordings remained unavailable due to various legal reasons until 2009, when Bear Family released all of them in two big box sets. Walk Through This World with Me is the first volume, covering the first two-and-a-half years of Jones' time at Musicor, a quarter of a decade that produced several huge hits, many forgotten gems, and a bunch of standard-issue Texas honky tonk elevated by the natural grace of George and the grit of his Jones Boys. In a move that seems a test to prove whether the old adage of whether a great singer could sing the phone book is true, Daily would have Jones sing almost any old song, provided that he owned the copyright. He had a stable of regular writers, most quite talented, working overtime to turn out material, and when that failed, he dug up public domain gospel numbers he could arrange, then filled out sessions with current hits and re-recordings. Since Pappy did have Leon Payne, Dallas Frazier, and Peanuts Montgomery on his short list, he gave George lots of good, sometimes great, songs to record, and unlike Col. Tom Parker, he wasn't loathe to have George cut a tune if his company couldn't get the publishing. That said, there are times during this box where it seems as if Daily was almost testing the old adage of whether a great singer could sing the phone book and sound good. Of course, that's giving Pappy a bit too much credit - he wasn't there for art, he was there for commerce, picking songs and pushing Jones to break Musician's Union rules (according to George, they once recorded a full album in three hours, way beyond the union's three-song limit), but letting the singer conduct the band and set the arrangements, something that's made clear by the session tapes that conclude this five-disc box. This hands-off approach might explain why the first half of the Musicor years doesn't depart greatly from the sound of George's UA recordings; there are a few cuts that show a heavy Roger Miller influence, and a few that bear traces of the Bakersfield twang of Buck Owens, along with some Merle Haggard, but by and large, this is hardcore country with an emphasis on sweet, mournful ballads, and when it comes to this sound, nobody does it better than George Jones. Certainly, there are varying degrees of inspiration.

Tracklist:

  1. I Just Lost My Favorite Girl
  2. What's Bad for You Is Good for Me
  3. Don't You Ever Get Tired
  4. How Proud I Would Have Been
  5. Let a Little Lovin' Come In
  6. Worst of Luck
  7. Even the Bad Times Are Good
  8. Sea Between Our Hearts, The
  9. Things Have Gone to Pieces
  10. Selfishness in Man, The
  11. Wearing My Heart Away
  12. Gonna Take Me Away from You
  13. Simply Divine
  14. I Can't Get Used to Being Lonely
  15. Lonely Know My Secret, The
  16. Flowers for Mama
  17. Feudin' and Fightin'
  18. Along Came You
  19. Take Me
  20. Love Bug
  21. I Made Her That Way
  22. I Made Her That Way
  23. Love Bug
  24. Love Bug
  25. I Woke Up from Dreaming
  26. Blindfold of Love
  27. Till I Hear It from You
  28. I Made Her That Way
  29. Four-O-Thirty Three
  30. I'm Wasting Good Paper
  31. Along Came You
  32. Take Me
  33. I'd Rather Switch Than Fight
  34. If You Won't Tell on Me (I Won't Tell on You)
  35. My Favorite Lies
  36. Memory Is
  37. Feeling Single, Seeing Double
  38. Don't Think I Don't Love You
  39. I'm a People
  40. Old Brush Arbors
  41. Ship of Love
  42. We're Watching Our Step
  43. Six Days on the Road
  44. Blue Side of Lonesome
  45. Once a Day
  46. All My Friends Are Gonna Be Strangers
  47. Don't Be Angry
  48. Don't Let Me Cross Over
  49. I Don't Love You Anymore
  50. Bridge Washed Out, The
  51. King of the Road
  52. World of Forgotten People
  53. If You Believe
  54. Talk Back Trembling Lips
  55. Unfaithful One
  56. Will There Be Any Stars in My Crown
  57. Where We Never Grow Old
  58. Leaning on the Everlasting Arms
  59. Lilly of the Valley, The
  60. Won't It Be Wonderful There
  61. Well It's Alright
  62. Lord You've Been Mighty Good to Me
  63. How Beautiful Heaven Must Be
  64. Your Steppin' Stone
  65. I'll Fly Away
  66. Close Together as You and Me
  67. Living on Easy Street
  68. Long as We're Dreaming
  69. Let's Both Have a Cry
  70. Back into My Baby's Arms Again
  71. Don't Keep Me Lonely Too Long
  72. Please Don't Let That Woman Get Me
  73. Your Steppin' Stone
  74. Ain't Nothin' Shakin' (But the Leaves)
  75. From Here to the Door
  76. In Person
  77. Swinging Doors
  78. Developing My Pictures
  79. Walk Through This World with Me
  80. Shoe Goes on the Other Foot Tonight, The
  81. There Goes My Everything
  82. Life Turned Her That Way
  83. Sweet Thang
  84. Almost Persuaded
  85. Soldier's Last Letter
  86. Am I That Easy to Forget
  87. That Heart Belongs to Me
  88. Apartment #9
  89. Lonely Street
  90. Seasons of My Heart
  91. Green, Green Grass of Home
  92. I'll Be Loving You
  93. Let's Get Together (One More Time)
  94. Long Walk off a Tall Rock
  95. Party Pickin'
  96. Day I Lose My Mind, The
  97. We Must Have Been out of Our Minds
  98. Everybody Oughta Sing a Song
  99. Walk Through This World with Me
  100. Man That You Once Knew, The
  101. Good Old Bible, The
  102. Small Time Laboring Man
  103. Give Me Just One Day Lord
  104. Cup of Loneliness
  105. Taggin' Along
  106. Wandering Soul
  107. When My Heart Hurts No More
  108. Poor Man's Riches
  109. Accidentally on Purpose
  110. Time Lock
  111. Tender Years
  112. Bringin' It Home
  113. Old Rugged Cross, The
  114. Where the Soul Never Dies
  115. Take the World But Give Me Jesus
  116. Unclouded Day, The
  117. Family Bible
  118. Honky Tonk Downstairs, The
  119. My Baby Left Her Jinglin' John (For Foldin' Fred)
  120. I Can't Get There from Here
  121. Lookin' for My Feel Good
  122. Window Up Above
  123. White Lightnin'
  124. Treasure of Love
  125. Run 'Em Off
  126. Half of Me Is Gone
  127. Talk to Me Lonesome Heart
  128. She Thinks I Still Care
  129. Color of the Blues
  130. Until I Remember You're Gone
  131. If My Heart Had Windows
  132. Honky Tonk Downstairs, The
  133. When Love Was Green
  134. Hangin' on to One (And Hangin' Round the Other)
  135. Say It's Not You
  136. There Ain' No Grave Deep Enough
  137. Girl I Almost Knew, The
  138. I Threw Away the Rose
  139. There's Nothing Left for You
  140. I Stopped Living Yesterday
  141. Stranger's Me, The
  142. Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town
  143. Along Came You - (Take 1)
  144. Along Came You - (Take 2)
  145. Along Came You - (Take 3)
  146. Along Came You - (Take 4)
  147. Along Came You - (Take 5)
  148. Along Came You - (Take 6)
  149. Along Came You - (Take 7)
  150. Along Came You - (Take 8)
  151. Along Came You - (Take 9)
  152. Along Came You - (Take 10)
  153. Along Came You - (Take 11)
  154. Along Came You - (Take 12)
  155. Along Came You - (Take 13)
  156. Along Came You - (Take 14)
  157. Along Came You - (Take 15)
  158. Along Came You - (Take 16)
  159. Along Came You - (Take 17)
  160. Along Came You - (Take 18)
  161. Along Came You - (Take 19)
  162. Take Me [Take 1 with String Overdub] - (take)
  163. Love Bug - (Take 1)
  164. Love Bug - (Take 2)
  165. Love Bug - (Take 3)
  166. Love Bug - (Take 4)
  167. Love Bug - (Take 5)
  168. I Made Her That Way - (Take 1)
  169. I Made Her That Way - (Take 2)
  170. I Made Her That Way - (Take 3)
  171. I Made Her That Way - (Take 4)
  172. I Made Her That Way - (Take 5)
  173. I Made Her That Way - (Take 6)
  174. I Made Her That Way - (Take 7)
  175. I Made Her That Way - (Take 8)
  176. I Made Her That Way - (Take 9)
  177. I Made Her That Way - (Take 10)
  178. I Made Her That Way - (Take 11)
  179. I Made Her That Way - (Take 12)
  180. I Made Her That Way - (Take 13)
  181. I Made Her That Way - (Take 14)
  182. I Made Her That Way - (Take 15)
  183. I Made Her That Way - (Take 16)
  184. I Made Her That Way - (Take 17)
  185. Love Bug - (Take 1)
  186. Love Bug - (Take 2)
  187. Love Bug - (Take 3)
  188. Love Bug - (Take 4)
  189. Love Bug - (Take 5)
  190. Love Bug - (Take 6)
  191. Love Bug - (Take 7)
  192. Love Bug - (Take 8)
  193. Love Bug - (Take 9)

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