Track Listing 1. We Can Make It 2. Loving You Could Never Be Better 3. Picture of Me, A (Without You) 4. What My Woman Can't Do 5. Nothing Ever Hurt Me (Half as Bad as Losing You) 6. Once You've Had the Best 7. Her Name Is... 8. Old King Kong 9. Bartender's Blues - (with James Taylor) 10. I'll Just Take It Out in Love 11. Someday My Day Will Come 12. Grand Tour, The 13. Door, The 14. These Days (I Barely Get by) 15. Memories of Us 16. Battle, The 17. He Stopped Loving Her Today 18. I'm Not Ready Yet 19. If Drinkin' Don't Kill Me (Her Memory Will) 20. Good Ones and Bad Ones 21. Still Doin' Time 22. Same Ole Me - (with The Oak Ridge Boys)
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | James Taylor, The Oak Ridge Boys | | Producer: | Billy Sherrill | | Distributor: | Sony Music Distribution ( | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes 2 LPs on 1 CD. In 1971, George Jones ended an eighteen-year relationship with producer and mentor H. W. "Pappy" Daily, leaving Daily's record label (Musicor) to join Epic Records. At Epic, Jones teamed with producer Billy Sherrill, who had overseen hit sessions for Tammy Wynette, among others. Sherrill's approach to production was more hands-on than Daily's, and Jones was soon making the first highly produced records of his career. The biggest hits produced during the first ten years of Jones and Sherrill's extremely successful collaboration are collected on ANNIVERSARY. Sherrill hit on a simple and effective formula for Jones' sessions: find a good novelty song, a few first-rate heartbreakers, and enough decent songs to flesh out an album; then arrange smooth, inobtrusive backing tracks and lay Jones' amazing vocals on top. The results were neither as raw nor as visceral as Jones' early recordings, but they were great nonetheless. "He Stopped Loving Her Today" is the best example of Jones' style during this period: if you love that song (and who doesn't?), you'll find plenty to enjoy on ANNIVERSARY. Among the twenty-two hits here are "Her Name Isà," "A Picture of Me (Without You)," and "If Drinkin' Don't Kill Me."
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