| We're Gonna Hold On | ||||
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| Released | November 19, 1973 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 27:49 | |||
| Label | Epic | |||
| Producer | Billy Sherrill | |||
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We're Gonna Hold On is the fifth studio album by country music artists George Jones and Tammy Wynette. It was released in 1973 (see 1973 in country music) on the Epic Records label.
After recording three duet albums together, country music's first couple finally scored a number one smash with "We're Gonna Hold On", a song Jones wrote with Earl Montgomery. The song's theme was the perseverance of love in the face of hardship, something that Jones and Wynette knew about all too well. As Bob Allen recounts in his book George Jones: The Life and Times of a Honky Tonk Legend, "Outside of a close circle of friends and business associates, few people realized the abject emotional squalor into which their marriage had sunk. The world at large was still deeply infatuated with their fame, their mansions and their expensive clothes and cars, and to fans, their marriage was still a precious thing indeed." Joan Dew, the co-author of Wynette’s autobiography Stand By Your Man, speculated to Nick Tosches in 1994 that Tammy was not only distraught by George’s drinking but jaded by the marriage as well: "I think she really got bored with him very quick down there. George is a little fuddy-duddy...He sits around and watches TV all day and goes fishing. George is only exciting onstage." In the BBC documentary Tammy Wynette: 'Til I Can Make It On My Own, Wynette's future husband George Richey recalled, "The writers who wrote for her, and there were about four of us who wrote regularly, would sort of write what was happening that day, and if she and Jones were having a tough time that's what we wrote about." As their marriage became more turbulent, their audience's fascination only increased. The album cover - two separate, non-smiling photos of George and Tammy partially overlapping each other - contrasts significantly with the sleeves of their previous duet albums.
The title song "We're Gonna Hold On" hit number 1 on Oct 27 1973 (for 2 weeks) and "(We're Not) The Jet Set" was a minor hit, reaching number 15.
AllMusic: "...by this point, the two had become a part of the touring machine and the album seems to be built around a stage show. The songs, outside of the title track (a number one hit), aren't particularly memorable."
Tammy Wynette was an American country music singer-songwriter and musician and was one of country music's best-known artists and biggest-selling female singers during the late 1960s and first half of the 1970s.
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 two decades 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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