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Walk Through This World With Me

George Jones (ジョージジョーンズ)

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EI16928
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5
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Germany
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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.

収録曲   

ディスク   1

  • 01. I Just Lost My Favorite Girl
  • 02. What's Bad for You Is Good for Me
  • 03. Don't You Ever Get Tired
  • 04. How Proud I Would Have Been
  • 05. Let a Little Lovin' Come In
  • 06. Worst of Luck
  • 07. Even the Bad Times Are Good
  • 08. The Sea Between Our Hearts
  • 09. Things Have Gone to Pieces
  • 10. The Selfishness in Man
  • 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. The Lonely Know My Secret
  • 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)

ディスク   2

  • 01. My Favorite Lies
  • 02. Memory Is
  • 03. Feeling Single, Seeing Double
  • 04. Don't Think I Don't Love You
  • 05. I'm a People
  • 06. Old Brush Arbors
  • 07. Ship of Love
  • 08. We're Watching Our Step
  • 09. Six Days on the Road
  • 10. Blue Side of Lonesome
  • 11. Once a Day
  • 12. All My Friends Are Gonna Be Strangers
  • 13. Don't Be Angry
  • 14. Don't Let Me Cross Over
  • 15. I Don't Love You Anymore
  • 16. The Bridge Washed Out
  • 17. King of the Road
  • 18. World of Forgotten People
  • 19. If You Believe
  • 20. Talk Back Trembling Lips
  • 21. Unfaithful One
  • 22. Will There Be Any Stars in My Crown
  • 23. Where We Never Grow Old
  • 24. Leaning on the Everlasting Arms
  • 25. The Lilly of the Valley
  • 26. Won't It Be Wonderful There
  • 27. Well It's Alright
  • 28. Lord You've Been Mighty Good to Me
  • 29. How Beautiful Heaven Must Be
  • 30. Your Steppin' Stone
  • 31. I'll Fly Away
  • 32. Close Together as You and Me
  • 33. Living on Easy Street
  • 34. Long as We're Dreaming

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