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Burn Your Playhouse Down: The Unreleased Duets

GEORGE JONES - BURN YOUR PLAYHOUSE DOWN: The Unreleased Duets is a collection of never-before-heard duets between Jones and an illustrious group of guest stars. The recordings range from the mid-70s with his ex-wife, the First Lady of Country Music, Tammy Wynette, to the most recent recording from 2007 with his daughter, Georgette, the only child from the union of George and Tammy. Duet partners include Keith Richards, Leon Russell, Mark Knopfler, Shelby Lynne, Ricky Skaggs, Vince Gill, Marty Stuart, Mark Chesnutt, Tammy Wynette, Jim Lauderdale, Dolly Parton, Tanya Tucker, Georgette Jones (daughter),

2008-11-11 -- 5/5:: George is King, long live the King
George Jones is country music. This CD is George at his best. The duet with his daughter (and Tammy Wynette's daughter) is amazing. Her voice is much like her mother's and when she and George sing together it's magic. She is a great talent. And the rest of the duets are great with great artists. If your a George Jones fan, this Cd is a must. I saw him live just a few years ago in a small venue in Spokane, WA, and his voice is was "smooth as whiskey" and true to the songs that we all love. I love many of today's country artists, but some of their songs sound so generic, no originality and soul. I know there are writers out there with songs that should be heard through these amazing voices, but I'm not hearing many of those. I love a wide variety of music from hard rock to classic country, the old crooners like Dean Martin to the fun music of Britany Spears. Good music is good music in any genre. Country will always be at the top of my list. "I always get lucky" with George!! So a new release from George, who knows a good country song, is a joy to hear.

2008-11-10 -- 5/5:: Classics with a twist.
Great classic Jones duets with a wide variety of artists. Excellent updating of some great old songs. You can tell by the cover it will have kick and it does not let you down. Songs you know, by people you know with a kick.

2008-10-29 -- 1/5:: never received the product. DHL says they delivered but didnt get it. I'm very bummed.
never received the product - DHL said they delivered, we were home all day and never received it. I am bummed out about it - since I paid for the product and extra for next day delivery. SS

2008-10-21 -- 5/5:: Burn Your Playhouse Down

I would like to say that this CD is wonderful. I absolutely love Mark Chesnutt, and the song that he sang as a duet with George Jones, WHEN THE GRASS GROWS OVER ME. I had heard at the last Mark Chesnutt concert that we attended this summer. Their voices blended so well. I thought that the song he sang with his daughter Georgette was great, she sounds so much like her mom, Tammy Wynette. There was not one bad song on the CD. I truely enjoy listening to all of the music on the CD.
Jackie
Copemish, MI

2008-09-23 -- 4/5:: Possum and his posse
Some great tunes and interesting duets. Besides great listening, this has significant historical value. The opening duet with his daughter, the title cut with Keith Richards, the unreleased track with Tammy: very fine. Unfortunate he never sang with Keith Whitley, but this is a treasure of some great duets he has done.

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George Jones! If Deep Soul is a state of mind then it can be found anywhere and in anyone, even though some are better at articulating it than others. Like sportsmen, the best - or at least, the most "soulful" - of singers frequently turn out to be tho ...More se who don't appear to be trying or sweating as hard as others; it's the old faithful of matches or races being won by those who try less, or seem to need the victory less. Listening to George Jones it's hard to pinpoint exactly where his magic occurs, although it is obviously present. He never seems to do much except sing in what is more or less his normal, used-for-speaking voice. There are no vibratos, no acrobatic grandstanding, and yet, through its slow, painful patience, his voice punctumises you dead centre. "These Days" is a tacit case in point. Recorded towards the end of 1974, two weeks before Christmas Day and two days before he walked out on Tammy "for good," it presents us with a picture of Jones seemingly willing his own premature and ruinous end. It is, essentially, the same old same old, except that his woes methodically stack up like an especially shaky house of bamboo cards. And he of course has his unobtrusive techniques for communicating this to us; the extended "aching" in the first line illustrates both his early frustration and the hint of Lear-esque descent to come. The last thing he feels like doing is working, but he'll give it a try, even if he has to thumb all the way - his car's in the shop, but by the glassy stress he puts on the word "shop" the implication is that it's there to stay because he can't afford to pay the labour costs. No clearcut city like London or Toronto, this, with its convenient buses and tubes. The music is standard Sherrill-issue C&W waltz grief; a choir of angels even materialises at the start of the second verse in expectation as Jones experiences further microhumiliations - he has to walk all the way home from work and it rains all the way. So sodden with self-pity is he that he doesn't even realise that he's answered his own question: "My wife left and didn't say why," he says, before immediately noting "She laid all our bills on the desk in the hall." The sorrow grows more constant and gruelling. He puts his last two dollars on his favourite horse; it loses by a nose and he cries, but puts all the crying weight through the word "nose." Then his boss comes and talks to him; we fear a fiery firing, but he's as mournful as George and suggests that "come winter we'll all be laid off." It is at this point that he collapses, weeping on high on the extended "wanna" of "I wanna give up, lay down and die." He makes it clear that his wife's departure is the main source of his pain, but at the end turns to the fourth wall and proclaims in a curious Sandringham Palace-via-Nashville tone that "oh, these days, one barely gets by," fully aware that he has worked hard at building one's own crucifix.

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George Jones - These Days (I Barely Get By)