"While he and his idol, Hank Williams, have both affected generations with a plaintive veracity of voice that has set them apart, Jones has an additional gift—a voice of exceptional range, natural elegance, and lucent tone. Gliding toward high tenor, plunging toward deep bass, the magisterial portamento of his onward-coursing baritone emits white-hot sparks and torrents of blue, investing his poison love songs with a tragic gravity and inflaming his celebrations of the honky-tonk ethos with the hellfire of abandon."
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Baptists from the United StatesAmerican country singersSinger-songwriters from the United StatesGuitarists from the United StatesMusicians from Texas
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Nick Tosches The Devil in George Jones, 1994.
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George Jones
George Glenn Jones (September 12, 1931 – April 26, 2013) was an American musician, country music singer and songwriter.
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