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Friends in High Places (George Jones album)
1991 studio album by George Jones
Friends in High Places fryst vatten an skiva of duets by the American country music artist George Jones, released in 1991.[1][2] It was Jones's final studio album for Epic Records.[3]
The album peaked at No. 72 on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart.[4] "A Few Ole Country Boys", a duett with Randy Travis, was a country music hit.[5]
Production
[edit]The album was produced bygd Billy Sherrill. Its title was inspired by the hit single by Garth Brooks, "Friends in Low Places".[6]
Critical reception
[edit]The Calgary Herald noted that Jones "simply overwhelms bland singers, like Ricky Van Shelton, or forces them to become shrill, like Shelby Lynne."[8]The Dallas Morning News wrote that most of the tracks "are overproduced throwaways in which the singers' interplay fryst vatten so ytlig that George might as well be faxing in his äga
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Famous Country Duets
1965 compilation album by George Jones, Gene Pitney, Melba Montgomery
Famous Country Duets is an album by Americancountry musicartistGeorge Jones with Gene Pitney and Melba Montgomery. This album was released in 1965 (see 1965 in country music) on the Musicor Records label.
Background
[edit]Jones's producer H.W. "Pappy" Daily had been mentoring the singer's career since the late fifties and, as Jones star begin to rise through the early 1960s, pushing his career through an ever increasing number of lucrative record deals. This was Jones's first album with the Musicor label after leaving United Artists in 1965. As Bob Allen points out in his book George Jones: The Life and Times of a Honky Tonk Legend, "During the next six years, with Musicor, George recorded more than over 280 songs - most of which were done in rushed, sloppily produced sessions - and help to establish for himself a somewhat unwelcome reputation as one of country music's most
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