Jones spent his time in the Marine Corps playing honky tonks in California.

Country music is so littered with sad songs that it's a well-worn joke: what do you get when you play a country song backwards? You get your wife back, your dog back, your truck back…and in case of ...

Just because an artist considers a certain song their best doesn’t necessarily mean it will top the charts, which is a lesson George Jones faced head-on in 1960. That year, the iconic country music ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – When it comes to country music, George Jones was The Voice. Other great singers have come and gone, but this fact remained inviolate until Jones died Friday at 81 in a Nashville ...

This journalist had the good fortune to interview the Country Music Hall of Famer himself back in September of 2011. At the time, he had just celebrated his 80th birthday. “It was just great to have ...

George Jones thought nobody would buy his biggest hit. Instead, it became the defining masterpiece of his career and topped the charts. But while the world sees it as a work of genius, the man behind ...

Country music star George Jones is in the hospital again with a respiratory infection. A spokesman says the 80-year-old singer was hospitalized Monday afternoon in Nashville, Tenn., and that concert ...

Few country music careers are as legendary as that of George Jones. But the story behind his first No. 1 hit is almost as famous as the song itself. Released in 1959, "White Lightnin'" became Jones' ...

Fifty-one years ago today, the country star who shaped the genre's future generations with his vocal style and songwriting.

It has been a heartbreaking year for country music fans with more than 20 stars dying already. The list has grown quickly ...

When it comes to country music, George Jones was The Voice. Other great singers have come and gone, but this fact remained inviolate until Jones died Friday at 81 in a Nashville hospital after a year ...