September 12, 2009

George Jones: A Collection of my Best Recollection


A few weeks ago George Jones issued an exclusive CD to the Cracker Barrel restaurants. The CD, entitled "A Collection of My Best Recollection", features 12 songs. Among the 12, two of them are being promoted as brand new.

1. The Race Is On
2. The Love In Your Eyes
3. Finally Friday
4. I Don't Want to Know**
5. I’m A Long Gone Daddy**
6. The Window Up Above
7. I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair
8. Achin', Breakin' Heart
9. Why Baby Why
10. You're Still on My Mind
11. White Lightnin'
12. He Stopped Loving Her Today

Today, September 12, is the 78th birthday of George Jones. He has made several appearances on non-country music related programs lately. The latest, an appearance on the Fox News Channel program, Huckabee, airs tonight and it repeats at various times throughout the weekend.

The numbers were released a few days ago and this CD joins a long list of Top-40 country albums in his career. This exclusive CD made it's debut inside the Top-30 on the national country album chart this week and it's available only at Cracker Barrel stores and their web-site's on-line store. At age 78, George continues to be the oldest living country music singer to achieve Top-40 album success. Second behind him is Willie Nelson and to a lesser extent, Merle Haggard. Each of those three are well into their 70's and are still capable of issuing hit albums.

This happens to be the week that George turns 78...turning the Top-40 debut of his album into a nice birthday gift.