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"Live With The Possum"
Amid scores of albums on both LP and
CD, only one "official" live George Jones album exists:
1985's First Time Live! This in-concert performance, introduced
by Alan Jackson, is actually the soundtrack of the long-available
Jones concert video Live in Tennessee, taped in Knoxville in
the early 1990s. George Jones, newly signed to MCA at the time,
performs a muscular, vigorous set heavy on hits from his 1972-1991
Epic period and adds his MCA single, the maternal tribute "She
Loved a Lot in Her Time." He reaches back further for his
1963 hit "The Race Is On" and a ballad medley mixing
"The Grand Tour" with earlier material. Lest there
be any question as to the era, while introducing "A Picture
of Me (Without You)," he mentions Lorrie Morgan's "recent"
1991 hit remake. While Live with the Possum is an excellent document
of early-'90s Jones, a question remains: having arisen Lazarus-like,
voice intact after his near-fatal SUV accident in March 1999,
why didn't Asylum record the later, triumphant Jones in concert?
--Rich Kienzle |
Customer review from Amazon
Reviewer: Garth Jr.from Brisbane, Transylvania
This is one of my favorite albums of the year. George has a consistance
of perfection that can outlast time. Finally, we get to hear
him in the elements that suit him best, Live on the stage. His
biggest hits are here including "The Race Is On", "One
Woman Man", "The Corvette Song", & more...
The finale is the best cut on the album, of course, his signature
song, "He Stopped Loving Her Today". When we jam it
with karaoke night, it's just not the same without this song.
A true song from a true man of sincerety. Another winning collection
from the best |
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