https://www.dailykos.com/news/GeorgeJones News Community Action Copyright 2005 - Steal what you want Sun, 26 Jan 2020 11:20:34 +0000 Sun, 26 Jan 2020 11:20:34 +0000 Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/5/2/1761608/-Playing-With-The-Possum <div style="text-align:left"> <p>I worked at the box office for the Grand Ole Opry for my first job in Nashville after moving there alone at age 19. That summer, George Jones and Tammy Wynette were playing an early evening concert on alternating nights in an amphitheater at Opryland themepark. That was where I first met George.</p> </div> <div style="text-align:left"> <p>George’s 1980 hit “He Stopped Loving Her Today” had been my grandma’s favorite song throughout my childhood. We would play the entire “I Am What I Am” 33-speed album in our lonely house in the woods in North Carolina and my beloved Virgie T. Davis would sing that particular song at pot-rattling volume. Her vibrato on the word “her” was at a speed that would challenge even Josh Groban.</p> </div> <div style="text-align:left"> <p>I hadn’t anticipated that meeting the man behind the well-worn LP would bring back my emotions for my grandma’s passing when I was 12.</p> </div> <div style="text-align:left"></div> <div style="text-align:left"> <p>Every day I could, I would stand in the back of the theater wearing an Opryland uniform and listen to George sing his lifetime’s catalog of hits. As I stood in various places around the amphitheater, it dawned on me that none of the staff or security was very concerned about my “supposed-to-be-there” status.</p> </div> <div style="text-align:left"> <p>So one day, I had planted myself backstage when George arrived in a golf cart at about 7:20 for a 7:30 show. Maybe they kept him someplace cooler. Do you think I said, “Hey George” or “Can I have your autograph”? Well, no, I stood there and cried like a baby as I watched him sit down in a folding chair and wait for his cue. I hadn’t expected that reaction.</p> </div> <div style="text-align:left"> <p>I stood in the stage-left wing and watched his entire set.</p> </div> <div style="text-align:left"> <p>Then, a couple of years later, I was working as a waiter in the revolving restaurant at the top of Nashville’s Crowne Plaza Hotel when my path crossed George’s again. On this night, we were closed for a private party for Don King, who was in town promoting a boxing event at the newly opened Downtown Arena.</p> </div> <div style="text-align:left"> <p>Don King was holding court at the party, and certainly at the height of his fame. When, in walked George and his wife, Nancy. They were guests of Mr. King, who I would learn was a big fan of George’s music.</p> </div> <div style="text-align:left"> <p>After a couple of hours, the upper echelon of the guests were seated in the lounge area and Mr. King asked George if he could sing a song. George responded modestly that he didn’t bring his guitar, which might have thinly veiled an “I ain’t getting paid” response.</p> </div> <div style="text-align:left"> <p>Naively, I interjected, “I have mine.” He should have known that a waiter in Nashville wouldn’t be more than a pick-throw away from having his guitar. I made a habit of bringing mine on nights with private parties because we finished earlier and another waiter and I would stay in the restaurant and play music — he played the grand piano beautifully there.</p> </div> <div style="text-align:left"> <p>As I tried to hand George Jones my guitar, he said, “Can you play ‘He Stopped Loving Her Today’ in G”? He didn’t even ask if I was any good. Although, you don’t really have to be to play “He Stopped Loving Her Today in G”.</p> </div> <div style="text-align:left"> <p>I sang the brief female “oohs” section in falsetto just like I had for my Grandma when it was still in the middle of my range.</p> </div> <div style="text-align:left"> <p>That night, George took a photo with me and signed the guitar — not on the front or back — but on the top side of the neck so I could see it when I played it. My dad had given me that guitar when I was a teenager playing at the VFW and The Factory.</p> </div> <div style="text-align:left"> <p>This week marks five years since George’s passing. I met him one last time driving him home in a limousine years later. And it keeps running through my mind.</p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><em>This article first appeared in Kaine’s weekly column in The Henderson Dispatch.</em></p> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> rss@dailykos.com (kaineriggan) GeorgeJones kaineriggan opry _1761608 Thu, 03 May 2018 03:55:49 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/9/12/1568080/-September-12-2016-Open-Thread-El-Batallon-de-San-Patricio <p>September 12 is the 255th day of the year. There are 110 days left.</p> <p>It is National Chocolate Milkshake Day</p> <p><strong>Today's number is 12</strong></p> <p>12 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6. making it a great base for a number system</p> <p>12 is the sum of two primes, 5 &amp; 7</p> <p>A polygon with 12 sides is a dodecagon.</p> <p> A polyhedron with 12 faces is a dodecahedron.  Cuboids (cubes &amp; rectangular prisms) have 12 edges<br> Regular icosahedrons have 12 vertices.<br> 12 is magnesium <br> A year has 12 months<br> The 24 hour day is generally broken up into 2 - 12 hour segments, am &amp; pm<br> There are 12 inches in a foot.<br> There are twelve basic hues in the color wheel<br> In craps, 12, is a double 6. It is called Boxcars and is craps (loses or craps out) on a come out roll.<br> Humans have 12 pairs of ribs<br> There are 12 Federal Reserve Districts<br> There were 12 kniggits of the round table There are 12 signs of the zodiac</p> <p>There were 12 Angry Men</p> <p>The 12 bar blues is a popular musical form</p> <p>12th Night is a comedy by Shakespeare</p> <p><strong>Title 12 of the US Code</strong> is BANKS AND BANKING</p> <p>12 BCE was the <strong>Year of the Consulship of Messalla and Quirinius</strong>   <br> Emperor Augustus was declared Pontifex Maximus.<br> Halley's Comet appeared.<br>     <br> 12 CE was the <strong>Year of the Consulship of Caesar and Capito</strong> </p> <p>Caligula was born</p> <p><strong>On this day in:</strong></p> <p>90 BCE -- The Battle of Marathon</p> <p>1213 -- Crusaders won the Battle of Muret then slaughtered the Cathars fleeing from the town thereby ending the <s>Cathar Genocide</s> Holy Albigensian Crusade</p> <p>1609 -- Henry Hudson began exploring the Hudson River.</p> <p>1683 -- John III Sobieski, et. al. stopped the Ottoman Empire's conquests and advances at the Battle of Vienna</p> <p>1846 -- Elizabeth Barrett eloped with Robert Browning.</p> <p>1847 -- At the Battle of Chapultepec, 30 previously captured surviving members of the Battallon San Patricio were hung en masse in view of Chapultepec. The San Patricios were a largely Irish force of immigrants to the US who fought on the side of Mexico during the US war on Mexico. They were staunch fighters who gave the US troops a great deal of difficulty, especially at Churubusco. They are honored and celebrated in Mexico to this day.</p> <p>1910 -- The Premiere performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 took place in Munich</p> <p>1933 -- Leo Szilard had the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.</p> <p>1974 -- Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia was deposed in a coup d'etat </p> <p>1977 -- Anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko died in police custody from torture &amp; beatings at their hands.</p> <p>1990 -- The "Four Powers" and both German states and signed the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany.</p> <p>2003 -- The United Nations lifted sanctions against Libya and the Libyan government fell for it</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" data-height="315" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_KvswKwHYos" data-width="560">YouTube Video</a></div> <p><strong>Born this day in:</strong><br> 1818 -- Richard Jordan Gatling, the inventor of the Gatling gun<br> 1862 -- Carl Eytel, painter and illustrator<br> 1880 -- H. L. Mencken, journalist, wise-ass, and critic <br> 1892 -- Alfred A. Knopf, Sr., a publisher who founded Alfred A. Knopf Inc. <br> 1897 -- Irene Joliot-Curie, chemist, physicist, and Nobel Prize laureate <br> 1913 -- Jesse Owens, sprinter and long jumper <br> 1931 -- George Jones, singer, songwriter and guitarist<br> 1944 -- Barry White, singer &amp; songwriter<br> 1944 -- Colin Young, singer<br> 1946 -- Tony Bellamy, singer, songwriter and guitarist <br> 1948 -- Steve Turre, trombonist and educator<br> 1951 -- Ali-Ollie Woodson, singer, songwriter and keyboard player<br> 1952 -- Gerry Beckley, singer, songwriter and guitarist<br> 1952 -- Neil Peart, drummer, songwriter, and producer<br> 1954 -- Scott Hamilton, saxophonist<br> 1956 -- Barry Andrews, singer and keyboard player<br> 1956 -- Brian Robertson, singer, songwriter and guitarist<br> 1968 -- Larry LaLonde, guitarist and songwriter<br> 1970 -- Nathan Larson, singer, songwriter and guitarist 1974 -- Jennifer Nettles, singer &amp; songwriter 1977 -- Jeff Irwin, singer, songwriter and producer 1977 -- James McCartney, singer &amp; songwriter 1988 -- Amanda Jenssen, singer, songwriter and guitarist</p> <p><strong>Died this day in:</strong><br> 1712 -- Jan van der Heyden, painter and illustrator<br> 1764 -- Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer and theorist <br> 1819 -- Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher, Prussian general, hero of Waterloo<br> 1869 -- Peter Mark Roget, physician, theologian, and lexicographer<br> 1977 -- Steve Biko, South African activist <br> 2000 -- Stanley Turrentine, saxophonist, composer, and bandleader  2003 -- Johnny Cash, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor  2007 -- Bobby Byrd, singer, songwriter and producer 2014 -- John Gustafson, singer, songwriter and bass player 2014 -- Joe Sample,  pianist and composer </p> <p><strong>Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:</strong> Commemoration of the mass hanging of the Saint Patrick's Battalion. (Mexico)</p> <p>National Day of Encouragement (United States)</p> <p>National Chocolate Milkshake Day (United States)</p> <p><strong>So, for music we gots: </strong><br> El Batallon San Patricio<br> Emperor Haile Selassie<br> George Jones<br> Barry White<br> Colin Young<br> Tony Bellamy<br> Steve Turre<br> Ali-Ollie Woodson<br> Gerry Beckley<br> Neil Peart<br> Scott Hamilton,<br> Barry Andrews<br> Brian Robertson,<br> Larry LaLonde<br> Nathan Larson<br> Jennifer Nettles<br> Jeff Irwin<br> James McCartney<br> Amanda Jenssen Stanley Turrentine Bobby Byrd John Gustafson Joe Sample</p> <p>El Batallon San Patricio - The Chieftans,  Ry Cooder, Banda de Gaita de Batallón, et. al</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=aIQz3mNxEog" data-height="315" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aIQz3mNxEog" data-width="560">YouTube 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https://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/9/12/1238324/-The-Daily-Music-Break-This-Day-in-Music <p><em>Cross-posted at <a href="http://www.dailymusicbreak.com">The Daily Music Break</a>. Visit for great music across eras and genres.</em></p> <p><iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/igRPOtA33ko?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" defang_allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p> <p><em>This Day in Music</em> reports that today is birthday of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.mariamuldaur.com/" target="_blank">Maria Muldaur</a>&nbsp;(1943) and <a href="http://www.dailymusicbreak.com/2012/11/12/remembrance-of-things-past/" target="_blank">George Jones</a>&nbsp;(1941) and the anniversary of <a href="http://www.dailymusicbreak.com/2012/03/11/johnny-cash-cocaine-blues/" target="_blank">Johnny Cash's</a>&nbsp;(2003) death. In 1990,&nbsp;Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie announced that they would leave Fleetwood Mac after the ongoing tour ended.</p> <p><a href="http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/" target="_blank">Check out the link</a> for other music-related notes concerning September 12.</p> <p>Above, of course, is Muldaur's&nbsp;<em>Midnight at the Oasis.</em></p> rss@dailykos.com (cweinsch) ChristineMcVie FleetwoodMac GeorgeJones JohnnyCash MariaMuldaur September 12 StevieNicks TheDailyMusicBreak _1238324 Thu, 12 Sep 2013 13:16:47 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/5/1/1206207/-Westboro-Baptist-again-I-have-mixed-feelings-about-this <p>Believe it or not, this infamous "church" will have representatives here in Nashville tomorrow.</p> <p>To do what?, you ask.</p> <p>Answer below the little crescent roll.</p> rss@dailykos.com (illinifan17) Equality GeorgeJones Nashville Westboro Baptist Church WestboroBaptistChurch _1206207 Wed, 01 May 2013 19:21:31 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/4/30/1205846/-TN-Tuesdays-What-Do-We-Do-Now <p>Hi yall,</p> <p><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8481/8224005051_89bd5d261b_b.jpg" align="right" width="220" hspace="6" />This is a post about how we can improve life for Tennesseans, protect an American culture that has endured for centuries, and promote our beloved Appalachian Mountains that once stood higher than the Himalayas, now threatened by mountaintop removal coal mining.</p> <p><i>Tennessee Tuesdays</i> are a new weekly feature at the <a href="http://appvoices.org">Appalachian Voices Front Porch blog</a>, serving you since 2006. While our main goal is to end mountaintop removal, we also hope to spread the gospel of hope, bring light to issues facing Tennesseans, and offer solutions on how we can move our state towards a cleaner and more energy efficient future.</p> <p>Are you from Tennessee or nearby? Introduce yourself in the comments and let us know what you'd like to hear about. For now, welcome! Have a cup of coffee and take a minute to enjoy your Tennessee Tuesday.</p> <p><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8186/8122454215_840563a7de_b.jpg" width="600" title="Tennessee's magnificent Elk Valley, just up the road from our largest surface coal mines." /></p> <p><u><b>What's been happening in Tennesse lately?</b></u></p> <p><b>Tennessee Legislature 2013: zOMG</b><br /> My home state of Tennessee has been in the national news a lot the last few months, and not for the greatest reasons.</p> rss@dailykos.com (faithfull) Coal Colbert Community Culture Daily Show Economy Energy Environment GeorgeJones Jobs Mountaintop Removal MountaintopRemoval Tennessee TheDailyShow TVA _1205846 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:10:50 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/4/26/1204998/-George-Jones-Country-Music-Legend-1931-2013 <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY-epx63Dd8"></a></p> <div class="dkimg-c"><span class="image_container"><img src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/dk-production/images/29838/large/geo.jpg?1366993154" alt="" /></span></div> <blockquote><em>"George might show up flyin' high, if George shows up at all<br /> But he may be, unconsciously, the greatest of them all<br /> From the Beatles and me in Nashville, to the 'billies and the Rolling Stones<br /> If we all sounded like we wanted to, we'd all sound like George Jones."</em><br /> &nbsp;- Waylon Jennings, “It’s Alright”</blockquote> George Jones, who passed away today in Nashville at the age of 81, will always be the undisputed master of country music. Jimmie Rodgers may have invented country music and Hank Williams brought it out of the honky-tonks into the American mainstream, but George Jones, for me and generations of others, <em>was</em> country music, a true American icon. <p>George Jones' life and musical career was a rocky road - epic battles with alcoholism, four marriages including a storybook marriage to fellow superstar Tammy Wynette that crashed and burned in the tabloids, drugs, bankruptcy, missed concerts, backslides, comebacks and more than one serious brush with death – but Jones not only survived, he put it all to the service of a smooth, melancholy voice of both awesome technical ability and an unparalleled emotional clench. George Jones was idolized not just by his fellow country artists but by singers from all genres from Frank Sinatra to Elvis Costello.</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VExw77xJsBQ">“He Stopped Loving Her Today”</a> is Jones’ tragic masterpiece, but listen also to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvEDgLgKXn4">“A Good Year for the Roses”</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owWNCNyEuYI">“She Thinks I Still Care”</a> or <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY-epx63Dd8">"If Drinkin' Don't Kill Me (Her Memory Will)"</a> to hear but a suggestion of Jones' artistry. Can a song about alcoholism and a broken heart also be funny? When George Jones sings <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc08gY8wfVc">“The King Is Gone (So Are You)”</a>, it can - funny and defiant and heart-breakingly sad.</p> <p>George Jones performed at the first Farm Aid benefit in 1985, was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1992 and was the recipient of a Kennedy Center honor in 2008.</p> <p>"I don't want to completely quit because I don't know what to do with myself," he <a href="%20http://www.nucountry.com.au/articles/diary/february2006/250206_georgejones.htm">said</a> in 2005. "I'll be out there as long as the people want me to be out there."</p> <p>And want him they did. George Jones was scheduled to perform tomorrow night in Huntsville, Alabama.</p> <p>Rest in peace, George. Thanks for seven decades of great music.<br /></p> rss@dailykos.com (Richard Riis) CountryMusic GeorgeJones Music PopularMusic Singers _1204998 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:20:02 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/3/4/842825/-I-Wish-it-was-Me-But-it-s-You <p> I live in a town like thousands of others in America, where nothing ever happens but the usual: Some kid with a new driver&rsquo;s licence loses control and kills themselves, a mom and pop business silently bites the dust and no one even notices, and another meth lab is found in a trailer on the edge of town, and racial remarks are made behind people&rsquo;s backs...</p> <p> Sore losers keep their W stickers on their cars and gripe about Obama and have wet dreams about Palin&rsquo;s triumphant entrance into D.C. in 2012. The unemployment lines get bigger and the rich huddle even tighter at the country club, and your neighbor goes off to yet one more tour of duty in Iraq or Afghanistan, and our kids keep joining up cause there aren&rsquo;t any jobs or just to get the hell away from here.</p> <p> And they come home messed up physically or mentally or in a box.</p> <p> Just your normal, typical run of the mill American town.</p> <p> So if something really different happens here, people sit up and take notice. <br /> That&rsquo;s what happened yesterday.</p> rss@dailykos.com (StandUpToRacism) CountryMusic GeorgeJones _842825 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:49:39 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/12/1/416692/-What-I-Believe <p>I believe lots of stuff. &nbsp;I believe that if you put all the stuff I believe on a chart, you'd find that I'm not very consistent. &nbsp;I believe that consistency is overrated. &nbsp;I believe that what I believe doesn't really matter much. &nbsp;</p> rss@dailykos.com (bugscuffle) Beliefs GeorgeJones _416692 Sat, 01 Dec 2007 21:54:33 +0000