And Along Came Jones

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And Along Came Jones
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Studio album by
George Jones
ReleasedOctober 15, 1991
Genre Country
Length31:51
Label MCA Nashville
Producer Kyle Lehning
George Jones chronology
You Oughta Be Here with Me
(1990)		And Along Came Jones
(1991)		 Walls Can Fall
(1992)
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And Along Came Jones is an album by American country music singer George Jones released in 1991 on the MCA Nashville Records label.

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George Glenn Jones was an American musician, singer and songwriter. He achieved international fame for his long list of hit records, including his best known song "He Stopped Loving Her Today", as well as his distinctive voice and phrasing. For the last twenty years of his life, Jones was frequently referred to as the greatest living country singer. Country music scholar Bill Malone writes, "For the two or three minutes consumed by a song, Jones immerses himself so completely in its lyrics, and in the mood it conveys, that the listener can scarcely avoid becoming similarly involved." Waylon Jennings expressed a similar opinion in his song "It's Alright": "If we all could sound like we wanted to, we'd all sound like George Jones." The shape of his nose and facial features earned Jones the nickname "The Possum".

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Recording

After 19 years with Epic Records, Jones and his wife Nancy, who was now engineering all of his major career moves, signed with Tony Brown of MCA Records, the dynamic chief record executive and staff producer who had been a central figure in the renaissance country music had undergone in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Brown told The New York Times that signing Jones "was like signing Elvis. If I could sign only one of all the legends in town, George is the one I would sign. Everyone still loves him." Although Jones's last two Epic albums had been ignored by radio, dozens of Nashville's new superstars sang his praises in interviews. And Along Came Jones was produced by Kyle Lehning, who was hot off a string of hit albums by Randy Travis and had previously produced Jones's last Top Ten hit, a duet with Travis called "A Few Ole Country Boys". The album took nine months to record - an eternity compared to the singer's early days - and featured the usual mix of ballads, drinking songs, and novelties. Backed by MCA's powerful promotion team, the album sold better than his previous one had but two singles, "You Couldn't Get The Picture" and "She Loved A Lot In Her Time" (a tribute to Jones' mother Clara), did not crack the top 30 on the charts as Jones lost favor with country radio as the format was altered radically during the early 1990s. Jones also made music videos for each single but his resentment towards the country music business and its assembly line star-making machinery was growing, writing in his 1996 autobiography, "I don't care much for many of today's young country singers. They're not country - they're clones. Many got their recording contracts because they sound like someone else."

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Reception

And Along Came Jones only made it to number 22 on the Billboard country albums chart but was greeted with positive reviews at the time. James Hunter of The New York Times wrote, "Jones may be singing better than ever right now. And Along Came Jones may be his most carefully crafted and selected album in a decade." AllMusic: "His MCA debut wasn't a masterpiece, but it was stronger than almost everything he'd done in the '80s."

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Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Where the Tall Grass Grows" Randy Boudreaux, Kerry Kurt Phillips, Andy Spooner3:16
2."Honky Tonk Myself to Death" Max D. Barnes 2:28
3."Angels Don't Fly"John R. Fountain, William J. Webb3:20
4."You Couldn't Get the Picture"Chuck Harter3:35
5."Come Home to Me" Dobie Gray, Tom Lazaros, Bud Reneau3:33
6."Heckel and Jeckel"Max D. Barnes3:28
7."I Don't Go Back Anymore" Mike Reid, Troy Seals 3:15
8."You Done Me Wrong"George Jones, Shirley Jones, Ray Price 2:27
9."King of the Mountain" Larry Boone, Paul Nelson3:27
10."She Loved a Lot in Her Time" Randy Boudreaux, Sam Hogin, Kim Williams 3:12

Personnel

Eddie Bayers American session drummer

Eddie Bayers is an American session drummer who has played on 300 gold and platinum albums. He received the Academy of Country Music 'Drummer of the Year Award' for fourteen years, and has three times won the Nashville Music Awards 'Drummer of the Year'. He was also a member of two bands: The Players, and The Notorious Cherry Bombs.

John Hughey was an American musician. He was known for his work as a session pedal steel guitar player for various country music acts, most notably Vince Gill and Conway Twitty. A member of the Pedal Steel Guitar Hall of Fame, Hughey was known for a distinctive playing style called "crying steel", which focused primarily on the higher range of the guitar.

David Hungate American musician

William David Hungate is a bass guitarist, producer, and arranger noted as a member of Los Angeles pop-rock band Toto from 1977 to 1982 and rejoining in 2014. Along with most of his Toto bandmates, Hungate did sessions on a number of hit albums of the 1970s, including Boz Scaggs's Silk Degrees and Alice Cooper's From the Inside.

Chart performance

Album

Chart (1991)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums22
U.S. Billboard 200148
Canadian RPM Country Albums26

Singles

YearSinglePeak chart
positions
US Country CAN Country
1991"You Couldn't Get the Picture"3252
1992"She Loved a Lot in Her Time"5582
"Honky Tonk Myself to Death"6098

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References

  1. ↑ Mansfield, Brian. And Along Came Jones at AllMusic
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