{"product_id":"george-jones","title":"George Jones","description":"\u003cp\u003eGeorge Jones\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Life and Times of a Honky Tonk Legend: Updated Edition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSoftcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eGeorge Jones's nearly 60-year recording and performing career has had a profound influence on modern country music and influenced a younger generation of singers, including Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, Randy Travis, Tim McGraw, and Trace Adkins. As Merle Haggard said of Jones in Rolling Stone magazine, His voice was like a Stradivarius violin: one of the greatest instruments ever made. Jones's saga is a larger-than-life tale of rags to riches and back to rags again. He was born into near poverty in a backwater patch of East Texas. His formal education ended early; by his early teens, he was singing on the streets of Beaumont, Texas, for tips. After beginning to record in the mid-1950s Jones became, by sheer dint of his vocal prowess, one of Nashville's most celebrated honky-tonk singers. But from the start, Jones's life, as often reflected in his music, was shaped by misdirection, chaos, turmoil, and emotional strife aggravated by a ferocious appetite for alcohol. Fame and adulation seemed to merely intensify his personal travails. Jones's story has a relatively happy ending. With the help of fourth wife Nancy during the final decade and a half of his life, he got clean and sober, was feted as a much-revered elder statesman for the music, and, by most accounts, found peace of mind at long last.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInventory # :  00122446\u003cbr\u003e\nUPC:  884088952617\u003cbr\u003e\nISBN:  1480355828\u003cbr\u003e\nWidth:  6\"\u003cbr\u003e\nLength:  9\"\u003cbr\u003e\nHeight:  0.959\"\u003cbr\u003e\nProduct Weight:  1.3 lbs.\u003cbr\u003e\nNumber of Pages:  338\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Backbeat Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49389771784486,"sku":"00122446","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0128\/7762\/7456\/files\/a00da6ba-8739-5810-9f53-d0b4682fe3ab.jpg?v=1723783241","url":"https:\/\/retrostar-gifts.myshopify.com\/products\/george-jones","provider":"Retrostar Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}