{"product_id":"george-jones-9781480355828","title":"George Jones","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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 ÊRolling StoneÊ magazine   His voice was like a Stradivarius violin: one of the greatest instruments ever made. ÞJones''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 adula","brand":"Hal Leonard Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50515849806167,"sku":"9781480355828","price":18.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781480355828.jpg?v=1745428068","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/george-jones-9781480355828","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}