He stopped loving her today : George Jones, Billy Sherrill, and the pretty-much totally true story of the making of the greatest country record of all time /
When George Jones recorded "He Stopped Loving Her Today" more than thirty years ago, he was a walking disaster. Twin addictions to drugs and alcohol had him drinking Jim Beam by the case and snorting cocaine as long as he was awake. Before it was over, Jones would be bankrupt, homeless, an...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson, Miss. :
University Press of Mississippi,
©2011.
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Colección: | American made music series.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | When George Jones recorded "He Stopped Loving Her Today" more than thirty years ago, he was a walking disaster. Twin addictions to drugs and alcohol had him drinking Jim Beam by the case and snorting cocaine as long as he was awake. Before it was over, Jones would be bankrupt, homeless, and an unwilling patient at an Alabama mental institution. In the midst of all this chaos, legendary producer Billy Sherrill-the man who discovered Tammy Wynette and cowrote "Stand by Your Man"--Would somehow coax the performance of a lifetime out of the mercurial Jones. The result was a coun |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 209 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-196) and index. |
ISBN: | 9781617031021 161703102X 9781626744233 1626744238 1283173786 9781283173780 9786613173782 6613173789 |