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so depressing. I hate divorce songs :(
Great bu still generic country folk album. Pretty sure there's more than a 1000 albums better than this one.
Cover isn't exactly keeping any secrets is it? I'm guessing oldies country just like they still play on AM radio. Yeah, nailed it. Not awful (and first track is fantastic) but hard to really judge. Most of it is a bit soppy. Catchy, but soppy. Bums me out to see it's 99% covers, too. A good length at 28min though. 3/5.
I think this is the first country album I've gotten, let's see how it goes. maybe older country is better than new country. better than I expected and I can respect it. Last song is a little too much for me but.
Somewhat impressed. I don't like country. But after listening to Sinatra's sad songs I realized George Jones is just doing the same thing, country style. If I'm indifferent but not dissatisfied with Sinatra then I can't be any different with Jones just because he drawls when Sinatra croons. I'm only impressed because I found myself able to put Jones on the same plane as Sinatra for putting together an album full of emotion-tugging sad songs (even if country). Simple plucking and country sound with simple lyrics and a soft voice. Didn't love it but you can't hate it either.
Pretty good old western country, I'm actually very into this type of old country in small doses. a 3.5
Mais um com country clássico.
Very old school country and western. Songs about heartbreak and plenty of pedal steel… not bad!
George Jones is one of my favorites from his generation, but this album is disjointed and weird. He's one of the ones that put out a ton of albums, and only a few of them are winners front to back. I recommend I Am What I Am if you like his voice but didn't necessarily love this album. Best track: Borrowed Angel
Not enough nelly for my country music 3
Another fine classic country album, short, melodic, good vocals. The last track was a pretty solid skewering of how fans treat famous people.
There are a lot of earwigs here. Released way back when... it does carry some themes that have changed with the times. If he changes them and re-releases, I'll give it a 5.
A bit better than i expected. Everything he is straightforward old country twangy with some good variety with up tempo pieces like weatherman as well as some more ballad types. Grand Tour itself is really good. Has some misogynstic tones that make it a little less pleasant.
I liked a couple of songs, more than I thought i would but country still isn't my thing.
just average
Straight down the middle slide guitar country. Fave: The Grand Tour, She Told Me so, Who Will i Be Loving Now
Rating: 6/10
So this album solidifies that when I've said in the past "I don't like country", what I MEAN is "I don't like current bro-country". Older country has a lot more genuine emotion behind it and can also be very tongue-in-cheek as well.
Country muito country MUITO country. MUITO. Country. Country. 3/5
***
A decent country album but I may not be old, nor divorced enough times to truly appreciate it.
decent country album
I liked this. It’s old school country, George Jones has such a smooth calming voice. Would have liked more pick me ups in the music as most of the album is pretty slow moving. Don’t listen if you don’t like country, you will hate it.
Country. No demasiado aburrido.
album mi ovako paše u pozadini, pogotovo u toplijem razdoblju. baš sam išo provjerit, lik ima 87 studijskih albuma, e to ko sve presluša je bolestan.
I found it to be a bit sad, with the themes etc. but clearly a very good country album. Not something I really enjoy listening to though. First track, ‘the grand tour’ is the standout.
when you hear the stuff you know why George was called “The Frank Sinatra of Country”. It’s OK, this “Nashville Sound” stuff from the 70s is so schmaltzy, so slick and so over produced. George has a great voice and sings with a ton of emotion but I’m more of an outlaw country kind of guy.
Country music hey
Gosigt
Lite kul
Avant d'arborer ses iconiques rouflaquettes, George Jones était plus ou moins une énorme victime à la coupe au brosse et au sourire de premier de la classe. Tout bascule en 1970 lorsque des amis à lui insistent pour qu'il fume une cigarette. Jones y prend goût et devient tout simplement intenable. Très vite, il se met à répondre à ses parents, fuguer la nuit, et, cerise sur le gâteau, à fumer des chichas dans le square de son quartier. L'album The Grand Tour raconte en partie comment il a pris la décision de se laisser pousser les cheveux.
J'ai passé de très douloureuses dernières 18h. En effet, hier soir, au moment de faire ma vaisselle comme chaque soir, le niveau d'eau de mon évier restait figé. La conclusion était évidente: mon évier était bouché. Après de multiples tentatives d'usage de différents produits chimiques et autres recettes de grand-mère, je me rendis dans mon magasin de bricolage pour y récupérer une ventouse très puissante. Une fois rentré, j'appliquais la ventouse sur l'entrée d'eau de l'évier, et pressait à de nombreuses reprises, non sans avoir bouché l'autre entrée d'eau avec un chiffon au préalable. Après une vingtaine de coups, je sentis quelque chose heurter ma ventouse. Je soulevais alors cette dernière à l'aide du manche, et découvrit alors un petit bout de Frank Zappa, qui était probablement bloqué dans la tuyauterie et empéchaît l'écoulement correct de mon eau. Cette mauvaise expérience derrière moi, et j'ai pu replacer le petit bout de Frank Zappa dans ma poubelle.
This is about as classic Country as it gets. Nice flow to it; good for letting it play in the background. Not especially my kind of music, but nice enough for a solid 3/5.
Decent country album with great runtime that doesn't stand out from the crowd of similar albums
I don't like country music, though this looks like is a classic.
Очень типичный кантри-альбом. Отторжения не вызвал. Фоном даже хорошо. Весь альбом звучит как одна длинная песня. Как знакомство с жанром - самое то. Нахождение в рейтинге - логично. Кто-то и правда для себя может открыть целый жанр. Может даже любимый.
Country has a whole different concept when it comes to sad songs and depressing subject matter. This guy is more emo than any of those black eye shadow dudes and actually has the depressing life story to back it up. Music is straightforward with little variation, so it's mostly about that twangy country voice thing.
Not my genre of music, but good vibes.
Country. Ni fu ni fa.
Country. Agradable. 3
I love getting country albums on here, even if they're unremarkable like this one. Never heard of George Jones, but he sounds familiar. That's because this era of country music all sounded familiar. Like Buck Owens we had before, this one's emo. I like how blatantly mopey and confessional this style of music is. Songs like "Borrowed Angel" are especially human and dark, this guy's accepting the fact that his lover is married. Weird, wild stuff. Again, nothing really special about this one, but it's a solid essence of country music at the time, and I dug a few tracks. Favorite tracks: Borrowed Angel, Pass Me By, Our Private Life, The Weatherman. Album art: Just like the music, unremarkable. This picture/tracklist combo makes up for at least 40% of all vinyl records for sale at Goodwill. 3.5/5
Good ole country yeeharrr. Also a generous amount of lap steel guitar
I might listen again if I were in the right place and the right mood
George had been releasing multiple albums a year throughout the 60s and 70s but seems to have stumbled onto something good with The Grand Tour. It's an album of heartbreak, like a country album that's got the blues. I wasn't at all expecting to enjoy this (just my genre preferences) but the earthy sincerity hit right. Sometimes you just gotta let her go.
Very sentimental 70s country.
Like okay, but never been my genre
Some songs were really good, like the rocking chair one, but otherwise it was kind of dull
Dit past precies bij m'n huidige stemming. Ik heb behoefte aan vriendelijke, rustige muziek :)
Ole' no show Jones. Dude's good. He got that name because people actually wanted to see him before. He showed up and phoned it in from time to time. But yeah, overall. it's a decent piece of my country music. Not my favorite but it's good.
It's fine. 6/10
George, maybe if you’d fetched your own damn paper, maybe your old lady wouldn’t have left you! Decent country album and whilst I’ll never love the genre, Jones’ voice is pleasant and the tracks were a fun listen.
Nice, clean country
What a voice!
The odd song for my quirky indie romcom, but not a whole album
pretty chill folk/country album I really liked some tracks like Our Private Life.
its alright
As far as country goes, this is quality. As far as music, it just ain’t got it for me.
Very county
Just put on a little George Jones and just sing alone.
The stereotype of country used to be sad songs about your girl leaving you, rather than songs about beer and trucks. Here’s some of that original flavour. Some of these songs are good, some are meh. That’s all I can say. Favourite track: “Mary Don’t Go ‘Round”
Mid 70s country. A bit cringy by today's light but still great for the time period
A nice, comfy country album, but it didn't strike my particular taste in country. Still really solid, though!
Fun album, worth a listen.
liked the first half better than the second. i liked this album overall.
Classic country that clearly influenced the larger genre as a whole. The album itself flows by and helps bring Jones into discussion with other contemporaries for a style of country long forgotten.
Um álbum muito melódico, mas relativamente semelhante e longe de algo goste. Nota:5/10
nice sad cowboy music. short and sweet.
I don’t normally listen to country, but this was alright. Might listen again
I had to eat my original opinion on the album! Didn’t love the first song and then during a second listen later in the day felt differently about the it. Reminded me of my Grandpa.
They don't make em like they used to.
Sad old country music. Classic.
Nice bit of Country 🤠
Enjoyed it more than I thought I would...but won’t be in a mad hurry to listen again. Unless I go on a road trip across America.
A short, easy to listen to album from a genre that has grown on me the last few years.
Decent train choons. Got Father John Misty vibes at times, he must’ve been a fan.
I think I like a good bit of country and I know George Jones is one of those mythical country heroes, so I figured I'd like this album. But somehow, it just didn't draw me in. It's got some solid guitar work and some groovy rhythm, but on the whole, I just don't see the appeal.
Definitely old school country music
As I said in slack, this is exactly that kind of slide-guitary “my-woman-left-me-and-my-dog-died” mournful country balladeer the stereotypes come from! I had to relisten to it today to pick a fave track, as non of them stood out to me first time around. I think I'll go for the title track, "The Grand Tour", as that seems the most sad sack....
Meh. Hard to really be objective here. I can deal with country sometimes. Not really today.
Well, muggy cool dark weather this morning suited listening to the velvety rich slower songs best. Kinda made me want to morning drink scotch. Faster songs like the Weatherman I didn’t like. Yikes some of the lyrics - she’s def cheating on you wake up!
Such a romantic. Only a couple songs that were a little weird. Old country is fun!
Not a country fan in the slightest, however this album wasn't that bad. I have nothing to compare it to though. I will put 3 stars however it's more like 2.5 stars.
I used to say I didn't like country music because of people like Florida Georgia Line, but listening to people like George Jones has changed that. I enjoyed this, not my favorite, but it made me appreciate the genre a lot more. It's soft and delicate, with themes of love and religion. Favorite song The Grand Tour, 5/8.
Früher war Country für mich sehr unattraktiv. Bei ihm werde ich daran erinnert warum. Melancholisches Gejammer über Liebe, Verlust und ähnliches. Gekoppelt mit beinahe fröhlichem Gedudel. Eine merkwürdige Mischung! Nichtsdestotrotz stört es mich weniger. Wohl ein Zeichen für mein Alter...
God gammel country, kærlighed, afslappende
I’ve got a soft spot for good Country. Standout Tracks: The Grand Tour, Pass Me By (If You’re Only Passing Through), Our Private Life
2,5/5
I dont think ill come back to it, but it was better than I expected, considering im not a fan of country.
Тряця! Знову кантрі?
When I think of bad country music, this is exactly what's in my head. It's a nightmare made real. The caricature of every country music joke. I wish I could stream it backwards on Spotify.
Lovely voice, wild Wikipedia article
Kinda boring, it sounds older than it actually is 2
Nice bit of country but didn’t blow me away
Decent, entirely forgettable. I don't think I'll ever be able to fully embrace Nashville Sound.
Really? Another "just a man and his guitar" album? This one sounds exactly the same as all the others I've had to listen to, and it's equally as uninteresting. The actual guitar playing itself is so painfully average, and the lyrics are questionable at best, with the attitudes towards women and relationships very much relflecting how backwards people's views were back then. Hardly an essential album, and I think for everyone's sake it would be better for this and the many others like it to be forgotten with time.
I couldn’t remember much of music in my childhood but boy did this one note album w god loving lyrics bring back memories of my youth …
How many different ways can you essentially write the same song? I know absolutely nothing of Country music apart from pop culture references…I grew up hating it. Listening to this was a treat in the sense I’ve never sat through something like it. And it did remind me of road trips in the 70s with my grandparents. And evoked images of some small town bar middle of Texas. And felt like Smokey and the Bandit. For sure there is a place for music like this, it’s just not any speakers I own. 2/5
Ha Ha! Way too much slide guitar for me. It's a 'Toe tappin', 'Rooten tooten' of an album. Enjoyable, bit not my thing!
No thank you George - moving right along.
Jones certainly presents an interesting view on women… They will just leave you for no reason, they will most definitely start loving you when you creep around them long enough, but god forbid they are not immediately agreeing to a lifelong commitment. But of course it‘s fine when Jones is the one sleeping with a married woman because… well it brings him pleasure, i guess. That alone isn‘t a reason to give the album a bad rating. THAT comes from the abundance of country-cliches, the whining vocals and the lack of real variation on here.
Almost stereotyped syrupy, sentimental country; almost completely at odds with Jones's drug and alcohol fuelled real life.
2/5
Too country for me, I don't have enough spurs / chaps / stetsons for this album
really country, not bad very old-timey, but not my style
Not my thing
A little too country for my liking but I didnt mind it. Shout out to George for only making this album 28 minutes long...because I dont think I would have lasted 30. Favorite: Who Will I Be Loving Now
Just kinda boring, to me
Always ambivalent to country. This is an example of the bad ones. 2/5
Very nice American country sounds like others though so no originality talks about love and booze
Same sappy country love song for 30 minutes. His voice is solid, but that is about it. 3/10 Top song The weatherman
The Grand Tour is a country album by George Jones. It was released in 1974. It is a country album. It includes the following instruments: guitar, drums, pedal steel, etc.
Mixed up this guy with Jim Jones and Charles Manson at the same time. Kind of coloured my perception of the music. Ignoring the murders, the music is just regular schmegular country, nothing to write home about as someone who isn't a fan of the genre
Im not really a country fan, I think it was all just fine. Nothing offensively bad, but like. eh. I defintly enjoy it much more than very many modern country music but that bar is in hell.
Better than I was expecting
It's like all of the bad parts of Elvis' sound. Way too much twang. Songs were mostly uninteresting. Thought I would like this more but I strongly prefer Willie Nelson or George Strait if I'm listening to old-school country.
Utterly unremarkable
Same old same old
Eh. I get that people love George Jones, but I'm not one of them. It's fine, but it's a bit draggy.
Once again, sounds like bog standard country to me
This is classic sounding country and western with it's awful mawkish lyrics. Musically is pretty much indistinguishable from any other country and western. Absolutely not my thing and tiresome to listen to.
While this wasn’t an unpleasant listen, I found it to be an uninspired, generic country album. It hits every cliché of the genre - the obligatory slide guitar on every track, predictable chord progressions, and really cheesy, frankly dreadful lyrics.
American country music is so often the sound of suffering, though I think they might not want me to feel it so acutely. Some country records can capture my heart, but this one isn't for me. And while the album is not abominable, outside of its craft it's barely redeemable.
Couple of good songs but I didn't vibe with it. First track was the best. 2/5
The first song was good, but besides that this album is incredibly boring. The only saving grace of this album is that it is less than 30 minutes. Mid 2.
I'm not much for country. Sorry.
You know, not every genre is for every person. And that's okay. I still don't like country music. But a couple of the tracks didn't make me want to throw the speaker out of the car.
Not a fan of country music in general. Still gave it a chance, still not feeling it. Two star music.
Pretty standard old school country. The title track in particular stands out with a captivating lyrical story and musicality, but the rest of the album feels much more derivative in comparison. Not the greatest country album, but worth a listen, especially with the shorter runtime. Top tracks: The Grand Tour, Borrowed Angel
I don't think I'll listen to this again. It was fine, but no more than that. Country music doesn't ring my bell.
Well, if you really *must* listen to country I guess this might be it. 1+1 for meeting notability guidelines.
Rätt slätstruket
Väl genomfört men förmodligen bland det tråkigare som jag någonsin varit med om. Skonsamt nog extremt kort.
man vill ju gilla lite go' country, men det här har inte åldrats särskilt bra alltså.
Mainstream country heeft veel elementen die ik echt nice vind, vooral de spongebob squarepants jangling gitaartjes. En soms echt die Hawaiiaanse twang, die je niet direct verwacht op de prairies van mainland USA. Maar als je verder kijkt dan die geluiden, dan heeft het altijd nét iets te weinig variatie, en wordt het never nooit spannend. Het is enorm opzoek naar een catchy refrein om een song te redden, en dat lukt op dit album niet echt vaak. Ik kan het altijd wel waarderen als dit op ons af wordt gegooid, maar helaas pakt hij me niet in. 6/10
Good old, country. The Grand Tour schiet niet direct in mijn allergie, wat bij Amerikaanse Country eigenlijk altijd al winst is. Het tempo is traag en de stem van George is wel gaaf. Verder is het echt zo classic country; het typische gitaar geluid, de onderwerpen van de songs en het lelijke Amerikaans Engels. Alleen in slottrack Our Private Life gaat het tempo omhoog. Dat is wel geinig, maar eigenlijk zat de kwaliteit van de plaat in het 'man-with-his-guitar' geluid. En daarom valt dat nummer aardig uit de toon. Good old country maar echt enthousiast wordt ik er niet van hoor. 5,5/10 Highlights Passe Me By
Zeikerige country ballads. De paar meer upbeat nummers waren oke, de rest kan me echt gestolen worden.
George Jones, 1931 in Saratoga, Texas geboren, nahm The Grand Tour im Januar 1974 in den Columbia Recording Studios (Studio B) in Nashville auf – produziert von Billy Sherrill, der die Sessions mit orchestralen Streicher-Arrangements von Bergen White und den Backing-Vocals der Jordanaires ausstattete. Das bei Epic Records erschienene Album war Jones' 41. Studioalbum und endete eine sieben Jahre währende Einzeldürre ohne Nummer-eins-Erfolg: Die Titelballade „The Grand Tour", von Norro Wilson, Carmol Taylor und George Richey geschrieben, erreichte im August 1974 die Chartspitze. Ebenfalls vertreten: „Once You've Had the Best" (Platz 3) und das intime Schlussstück „Our Private Life". Das Album entstand inmitten einer zerrütteten Ehe mit Tammy Wynette und einem eskalierenden Alkoholproblem – und das hört man, ohne dass es je ausgestellt wirkt. Sherrill hatte Jones jahrelang in Richtung Crossover drängen wollen; Jones bestand auf seinem Kernidiom. Das Ergebnis ist kein Kompromiss, sondern eine Synthese: Die Countrypolitan-Zutaten – Streicher, mehrstimmige Begleitung, polierter Sound – dienen nicht der Glättung, sondern als Resonanzraum für eine Stimme, die jede Zeile ans Limit bringt, ohne je zu kippen. The Grand Tour ist mit knapp 29 Minuten bewusst kompakt: Kein Takt, der nicht zählt, kein Arrangement-Detail, das bloß dekoriert. Jones singt, als ob er die Wahrheit kennt, die dahintersteckt, und als ob er bereit ist, dafür zu bezahlen. Wer die Seele des traditionellen Country sucht, findet sie hier in ihrer verletzlichsten und reinsten Form.
I don't like America
Not my thing, but I gotta respect this guys output as a real deal drunk.
⭐️⭐️ i had a feeling i wouldn't like this very much. he's got a great voice and some of the tracks were nice, but i sadly lost interest pretty quickly while listening
Back when I was a young slip of a thing, my friends and I used to try and dream up parody Country and Western songs for our dream band - The Hillbilly Cow Pokers - to sing. If we had heard this album we would have hot the mother lode. Endless heartbreak, marriages split up, an excess of regret and she took our baby and left me her alone with nuttin'. And that's just the first song. There's one song - Once You've had the Best - that's positive and another - that has a happy ending, although it's about a troubled marriage. But the rest are a compendium of misery. 30 minutes of infidelity and heart ache with overtime on the lap steel. Hot dang!
This was in one ear, out the other. Might be someone's favourite country album, but it's not mine.
yeehaw
Country music - how to stretch 2 minutes into 10
This was fine
uninteresting country
1. tour - 2 2. darling - 2 3. pazz - 1 4. love - 2 5. bezt - 2 6. uueatherman - 1 7. angel - 2 8. told - 1 9. mary - 1 10. loving - 2 11. life - 1
158/1001 First listen. Country music. I feel like I’d be in a sorry state if i wanted to listen to this. 3/10
Just some country music. Nothing else to say about it
Inoffensive, but bland country
That did not age well it was painful
Crying in your beer country music. I can tolerate the more upbeat songs like The Weatherman and Our Private Life.
I’ve told you before, unless it’s Johnny Cash, don’t bother me with your country music!
Country-yawn.
Nein, nicht noch mehr Country. Bitte nicht
The weatherman is a great tune, other than that, this is pure cliche honky tonk. No bite. No nothing.
I'm European
country..
Such a lovely voice. What a shame the songs are just typical country pap. 2/5
It's alright, even though the lyrics of country music are up my ally (unrequted love, loss and sadness) I just feel this is played too straight for my liking. I suppose I much prefer Gram Parsons take on country.
Not a country fan at all, so that's knocking this down a star or so unfortunately. This reminds me of my grandmother since she would listen to music like this. It's a 2 star for me only because I'm not a country fan and dislike slide guitar.. Good quality production though
I'm not a fan of country music with its various tropes. This doesn't seem to be an exceptional album, but at least it's short.
There are two good songs here. And 30 mins is the maximum of this kind of country music.
i've heard worse
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
BORING
meh
Russell Adler?! That may be a hot take but look at his Spotify- About the Artist section
Now this sounds like a CD my grandma had. The album is okay, it's heartbroken ballad after ballad. A lot of the songs sound the same. Just not a sound I want to hear 10 times in a row. There was a few different songs that were good.
This doesnt belong here either
Das Album ist ziemlich durchgerauscht ohne dass etwas hängengeblieben ist. Country bzw. diese Art auch nicht meine Baustelle.
Not my kind of listening but charming in its own way.
I genuinely try to keep my biases in check as I make my way through this project, and one of those biases is my deep dislike of country music. George Jones made a lot of people happy with his music, and people who love this music see this as among the best of the genre. But at the end of the day, I just can’t bring myself around on this one. The album is musically and lyrically...uninteresting. It's just pop music with a country twang, an album of songs that are slightly different versions of each other played to please. It is inoffensive adult contemporary music. And that has its place, but I'll be damned if I'm going to commend it musically lol. For me the best thing about this album is that it was 28 minutes long.
Old country. For old men.
Another country album??
Really struggled with this one but at least it was only 28 minutes
It's classic country...
Classic twangy country, still not my thing, but it didn’t make me want to run for the hills. Must’ve been in a good mood.
Cool but had to stop. Country is not my thing.
Felt like just another country album to me. Quite mundane topics being covered, and there were nothing with the songs that felt particularly innovative for country - at least not to my ears.
There is simply no way anyone considers this a must listen, I won’t have it. Even if country music is your thing, this is the low-fat natural yoghurt of country music. Have a word.
Pretty generic country/western
icky
This didn't really make an impression on me.
Not a country fan
This is a genre mismatch for me so I’m not in a great position to judge. When there’s a little energy to proceedings it’s more entertaining, if a little cheesy. The slow numbers though are impenetrable and sound pretty old fashioned for 1974. I’ve never known an album clocking in at less than 30 minutes to drag like this one.
Another solid country record for today, this one is too pure country for my tastes but is by no means poor quality, so I’m going with a high 2
That’s good old country.
A bit on the slow side. My favourites were Mary Don't Go Round and Our Private Life.
TLDR; George is going through a lot in his relationships and he’s very sad
hi george, wouldve taken this one to the marriage counsellor instead. i saw that you went through 4 wives, so call may be coming from within the house. the album generally reminds me of when i got chased by a goat for 10 minutes when i was about 5
The lyrics feel clichéd and the music is fairly straightforward, even though the album is undeniably easy to listen to. Living outside the US, I may be missing some of the cultural context but I struggle to understand why this record was considered worthy of inclusion on this list.
2 out of 5. Like others here said before this was good for a country album. It's still country though.
It's nice... If you like country... But I don't so this one kind of missed the mark. I can appreciate that it's pleasant enough to listen to and inoffensive by any means but I felt entirely impartial while listening to it (twice). Of all the music in the world this is not something that I want to squander my time away with.
Didn't love it, didn't hate it. Bland and repetitive. Bit too country for me, lacks wow factor. Sorry George Jones.
A little boring. A lot of songs around the same tempo. There were a few good ones, like Pass Me By (If You're Only Passing Through) and The Weatherman.
Nyt on sen tason countryä että ei pysty. Hidastempoista ja sydäntäsärkevää
2 - ok country
Fine I guess but very much not for me.
perfectly serviceable country for me, idk. not super memorable. 2.5
I'm sure this is a record of great importance but I mostly just wanted to listen to Randy Travis instead
country hein. o que não significa que é bom. não vou dar 1 porque foi curtinho. mas eh paia, viu. eu odeio country.
I, for whatever reason, put this album on prior to writing my genre prediction. I can thankfully avoid the embarrassment of incorrectly guessing that this would be a live album. I wasn't expecting a country album, either. The slicked back hair and gaudy tee gives me more of a rockstar image. George Jones is a vaguely familiar name, though it could be due to how generic it is. That 28-minute runtime is glorious. I've been struggling to keep on top of my albums recently, so more of these, please. This is okay. My contrarian, rebellious, reactionary spirit always makes me want to double down and say country music is the best music ever, though truth be told I've always felt incredibly indifferent to it. This doesn't sway me, unfortunately. The vocals are fine, the instrumentals are standard and the lyrics are just okay. A perfectly fine album, but I don't think it earns its stripes. "Pass Me By" is standard country fare. Still, I enjoyed my time with it. It soothes my pensive spirit. "Borrowed Angel" is also decent. I like the backing vocals and chorus. The rest of the album is just the same thing over and over. Bye-bye. That's the review. Book time. "Grandfather of country music". Well-produced. One of country's best vocalists. Not sold yet - over to Wikipedia I go. This was his 50th album. That is insane. Guess that just goes to show how much the value of music has increased over time. Performed well on the country charts. The title track reached number one as a single. Regarded as one of Jones' best. If Jones really is one of the most iconic figures in country music, then I guess I can let this one through. I cosign this inclusion.
As far as country like this goes, it’s good. Production is good quality, lots of interesting elements, orchestra, floating guitar riffs, piano parts etc. pretty mellow and easy breezy. George Jones’s voice and timbre is nice. The only thing that would make this better is some fat 808s and trap drums. But fr you can miss me with this sad cowboy stuff. Just not my thing. If these guys had Melodine back then George would’ve loved it. There are some cool choruses and musical moments that I can appreciate but you won’t catch me bumping this unless I’m in some sort of nostalgic cowboy phase. Or if I go through a painful divorce (that’s actually my fault but I refuse to accept it) and start drinking whiskey again. I give this a yeehaw/5 Jk 2.75
Old school twangy country - nice for the genre, but not my style
Country is so boring...
Sad twangy old country. It wasn’t terrible, but it did not hold my attention. All the songs kind of sounded the same to me
Twangy cheating Country love songs just isn’t my thing. It normally would have gotten a single star but George does sing well and the Weatherman got the extra star
This album fits perfectly into the stereotype of the kind of country song you’d hear playing in the background of a movie scene meant to be mocked. I’m not a big country fan to begin with, but this one was actually pretty annoying, and I couldn’t wait for it to end. Now that it’s over, I have zero plans to ever go back down that road again. In fact, I’ll happily take the long way just to avoid it in the future.
Songs about loving women and loving another man's woman to the point where roses are blooming in the
Obscenely mid
Very boring, for me. 😴
Avorrit, country, no m'aporta res nou.
Not my jam, but I get it... he's a classic and a hero to many!
No private session used for Spotify. This is the kind of music I would imagine one listens to when they drink too much Budweiser, with the occasional shot of Jack as a chaser, sitting in a dingy, sparsely populated bar in the afternoon with the door occasionally opening for a regular to stagger in exposing a blazing hot sun while you waste away thinking about how the woman of your dreams cheated on you with that guy you always kind of looked down upon because you thought he speaks sort of effeminately and drives a Prius. This music brings me down, but I am fairly sure its going for that, so kudos, i guess.
Found something i dislike more than hip hop
я не американец.
Annoying country
There's something about the pedal steel guitar, as it's used in country music, that immediately turns me off a song. And unfortunately, it's all over this album like a rash. I'm not a hater of country music, but I'm not a big fan either. I prefer the more raw and energetic tunes from the likes of Johnny Cash or Danny Gatton, than what's here. Everything is very predictable. It's pleasant and all that, but I don't understand the appeal, and definitely don't understand this being in a list of 1001 must-hear albums.
Jones's intense country accent stands out immediately. Not really positive or negative, though in general I do think there's a good reason why most singers drop most of their speaking accents. It's because it tends to sound better (plus the slow deliberateness of song necessitates a loss of accent anyway). But the main issue with the vocals, and the overall sound, is that they hearken back to older music - think 40s and 50s - giving me the feeling that this mid-70s album doesn't belong on a list of the 1001 most important and revolutionary albums of all time. Couple that with only one song being a "Spotify hit", and only two songs breaking the 1-million-listen barrier at all, and you have the perfect candidate for "old album that isn't relevant today". I can definitely understand the complaints about the music being boring (despite the album being almost too short to have time to induce boredom). There's no spontaneity, no surprise instruments or interesting basslines or drum fills or creative solos. Nothing that you'd hope to hear from cutting-edge music from 1974, anyway. Jones's competition in the year 1974 included Pretzel Logic, Fulfillingness' First Finale, Queen II / Sheer Heart Attack, Court and Spark, and Here Come The Warm Jets. Forgive me if I'm a little underwhelmed. Particularly with slow identical-sounding tracks like She'll Love the One She's With, Once You've Had the Best, and Who Will I Be Loving Now. The highest energy the album ever achieves is The Weatherman and Our Private Life, which (uncoincidentally) are also the strongest songs apart from the title track. 2/5 Key tracks: The Grand Tour, The Weatherman, Our Private Life
Þekkti röddina fyrir, en hún er ekki mjög eftirminnileg. Lögin semi ljúf og hress til skiptis en renna talsvert saman. Rúmur tvistur sem kallar ekki á aðra hlustun.
old twangy country.
I’m not a fan of country, even if this is at least a more ‘pure’ form than the new country these days, which is at least okay in that it is the old-school ‘proper’ form. I still wouldn’t listen to it.
Very monotonous, but relatively pleasing to the ear. I won’t be listening again thought. The opening track was pretty good though!
No idea how this made the list.
I do not know if this is a good album or not. Mainly it seems to be a chronicle of Georges troubled love life. It is almost a parody of country songs. 2 stars, he has been done wrong.
*1974. Country - honky tonk. *28 mins. *Totally fine for what it is. I like country in small does, so this worked. RATING - 5.5/10
So far, this is the album which I have best judged by its cover, which promises some super-American country singer, and it certainly delivers. George Jones, who I had never heard of because I am not a US-Midwesterner living in the 1970s, warbles and croons away on some utterly expected songs accompanied by his twangy guitar about life, love, and miseries, but doesn't really say a whole lot. I liked the ironic framing of "The Grand Tour" of his empty house after his wife had left, but I kept waiting for a reveal, or another layer to it - why did this woman leave? She had her reasons, right? Nope, not that we hear, she just walked right out with his child and heart, because women are evil, I guess. Go and have a drink at the bar with your buddies, that's what you need. I wrote that last sentence before looking at Wikipedia, which I see has a whole section on "Alcoholism" for George, and before listening to the final track Our Private Life, where the moral is almost literally "Hey, look, fans, if I want to have affairs and get blind drunk, I will, because I deserve it". Is it any surprise that the rest of these songs are all about people cheating on each other and generally being miserable?
Low effort formulaic country music. He has a good voice though. Favorite song: she told me so.
Very short twangy country 2/5
most country music is worse than this
A little too twangy for my taste. I can get behind country when it's truly gorgeous or historically significant, but this to me feels like neither -- sort of just run-of-the-mill farmhouse lovin'. I get the sense that a lot of people in America would probably call this album their favorite yet; I also get the sense that every single one of them would be the worst person you've ever met. All I'm saying is, maybe there's a reason it's a country music stereotype to only ever sing about your wife walking out on you. Fave songs: - Pass Me By (If You're Only Passing Through) - The Weatherman - She Told Me So
not for me tho Will I listen to again: 1%
To mor c&w for me
I know a lot of folks love the possum … I’m just not that into him. Couple songs in and I tapped out.
?? Country, aber nicht von Jhonny...? ok c
Blind album and artist. How was this album so short yet so slow and boring. Pick it up a little bit and have some fun, its country music.
Didn’t do a ton for your boy
Never really enjoyed the classic country crooner genre. Very boring.
Country. A bit sappy and each track is musically identical to the previous one. Especially with that cliche, whiny guitar sound. It's a relaxing and chilled album I guess. Jones' vocals are nice enough. The album is short and does exactly what it says on the tin.
whhauhfuahsufhadsasv,
I understand that some music on this list isn’t going to be for me, but damn this album was rough. I can enjoy some country, but this crooning one note stuff is bad. I try to give every album an honest try, but I ended up skipping most of these songs after about a minute. BUT THEN the last song is actually really good?!? What the hell? How did this one good track manage to sneak on to the end of this album? It’s the only thing that saved it from being a one star
Sad cowboy songs
Pretty lame but ok.
A Ronseal paint country album. Its a lovely chocolatey smooth voice but does not engage me as I really don't care for cowboys.
Granddad used to love a bit of country gold on cassette - a gentle, relaxing country delivered by the baritones of Jim Reeves or Charley Pride or Conway Twitty. This falls very much into that 'golden age of country' period. It's a 70s country. It's nostlgically comforting. It's kicking your wet shoes off and wrapping both palms around a mug of hot chocolate. It's the dew on a fresh apple. It's the creak on a stair, a spluttering match held to a frosted pane, it's a half-remembered childhood birthday party, the first downy growth on the upper lip of a Mediterranean girl. The best tracks are the album bookends. The pining title track and the lively 'Our Private Life' written with Tammy Wynette, which must be influenced by Johnny and June. There's little else to say about a man who has a great voice but shat albums out in an almost weekly basis (this is his 50th gosh darn album!). It's a decent album. It has a comfort blanket feel. It's not especially good.
Short, sweet, but not for me.
Tolerable at its best. Atrocious at its worst. Fucking country music.
Pas le pire album de l'histoire de la country, mais quand même de la country.
Some nice songs, it was pleasant. It wasn't unique enough to set it apart from other country to me. Rating: 2.3
Nelabai, bet bent trumpas.
This one is fine, I don't really have anything against it except that it feels like the same song over and over again, except for the last song which is a dig at judgemental fans. I don't know. It's OK, but I would only listen again if someone else put the album on.
Not for me, and didn't really enjoy. Fine singing and guitar playing for those who do though, and can hear how it's important.
The possum is the king of the heartache country song. He can cry in his beer better than anyone else. The songs are great, but this era of country ain’t about the albums. It was a singles game and this one shows it.
3/10
Once again I find myself unenthused by country music
I generally don't listen to country with a few exceptions, and most of those are female (I'm a dude). I do appreciate old-school country like Cash and Haggard, but I can't really get behind this one. I guess I prefer the outlaws.
This is one of those "If this list was not so focussed on the USA, this wouldn't be in here." albums. It's a basic country album. Every song sounds the same, and is about the same thing: heartbreak. It doesn't do anything noteworthy. It's just... boring.
Whilst I can understand the appeal of such an album to country fans, it ruined my day.
Tekur mig til baka á harmonikkuböllin sem ég fór á með pabba, ekki harmonikka hér en sama væbið, alltaf sami takturinn
Fine, I like the up-beat numbers not the slow stereotypical country songs. 2/5
God country, han havde nogle ægte gode budskaber, forfriskende kort. Ville nok ikke lytte igen andet end tre sange.
Brings back fond memories of my grandad.
Gäsp. Platt country. Förutom The Weatherman som är en bra låt inte mycket av värde. Tvåa
Divorced dad country
Not for me.
I was not expecting this. It's a weird album written for cucks. In almost every song, he's getting cheated on but he don't mind as long as he get some leftover scraps. This is a whole other side of country music.
2.5
It was boring.
Nah. Not for me
As country albums go, this was better than most. I’ll qualify that by saying that I don’t like country music and mummy ratings reflect that with most being awarded 1 star. It just doesn’t mean anything to me. The lyrics are I’m singing about a lifestyle and landscape I don’t live in. This was marginally better. I was stripping my shower of sealant when listening to it and it flew my. I don’t know whether that was because I was needing to use a Stanley knife in close proximity to myself or whether the music was good. I’ll be generous and say the music was good and give it 100% more stars that I usually award country music on the list. 2 stars.
George has got a nice voice and the instrumentation here is performed really well (some very cool pedal steel). I just can't get into this whiney "woe is me" style of country. Sorry your dog died, your wife left you, and your truck won't start.
Favorite: She'll love the one she's with
Johnny Cash lite
I find the lyrics and style oppressive.
Pure country. I just can't. Rating: 2
Most of what I know of George Jones I owe to Elvis Costello. Not George himself - I wasn’t raised on country music - but on the enthusiasm of a man who was. Costello once said that Jones could sing a telephone directory and break your heart with it. That always seemed to suggest style over substance. Take A Good Year for the Roses. Costello does a fine version, a UK Top Ten hit, but it’s the bones of the song that stay with you: the half-empty cups, the cigarette ash, the silence. All the ways people vanish but stay in the room. A Stranger in the House, a song Costello wrote for Jones, treads a similar line. There’s someone missing and the house knows it. From my ignorant perspective, this is Jones's story. He sang it again and again. Most famously in He Stopped Loving Her Today – he stopped loving her because he is dead. Or she is dead. Or she just left. Absence through death and absence through heartache are all the same and to be dealt with in the same manner: stoicism. Thus it is no surprise that the grand tour of the album's title and lead single is a tour of a mausoleum, a museum of grief or heartbreak, a shrine to someone gone and the life that went with them. Although He Stopped Loving Her Today wasn’t released until years later, it feels like a spiritual twin to The Grand Tour - same story, same production, same ghostly voice. It could have come out at any point in Jones's career, for the years they won't change George Jones's persona, not one bit. All the songs seem to come from the same ghost-town, but the production makes them all look newly painted. Billy Sherrill’s arrangements - strings, backing vocals, that polished Nashville finish - glide over the surface of things. They are pristine exhibition pieces rather than living objects. Maybe that's what country fans like: Jones plays the role of the tough widower, broken but, somehow intact. The forgiving cuckold. The cautious fella who has been hurt before. And he plays this same stoic role over and over. It may or may not be him. He may as well be singing the telephone directory. It’s not that it’s false, it’s just not very active. A little too tidy, a little too rehearsed. Real man's music where you don't give too much away. It's how my granda held himself and probably how he would have sung. Maybe men aren't like that anymore. Johnny Cash, in the video for Hurt, gives you that same house tour - only in his case, it’s real. You feel the years pressing down. The furniture hasn’t been moved in decades. He’s showing you the place where his life and marriage happened. You don’t doubt it. It works because it happens once, when it was true. We see the horror in Cash's presentation of the Grief Museum, rather than Jones's odd, normalising control. Costello clearly heard something in Jones - a kind of emotional minimalism, maybe. Restraint, perhaps. But even his own Jones-inspired songs (Complicated Shadows maybe?) struggle to match what he seems to be aiming for. He can't be that restrained. You can feel the effort, the strain to be honest. Which makes you appreciate even more the artists who take that same template and stretch it into something stranger, truer. The influence can be heard in a pair of songs by Bill Callahan and Joanna Newsom about their breakup. Joanna Newsom’s Does Not Suffice, for instance. A woman walking out of her ex’s life, one garment at a time. “The tap of hangers swaying in the closet…” She’s not mourning a person so much as an atmosphere. The absence is total - and yet the space is still crackling with memory. It's a gorgeous, discrete short story, unlike Jones's gothic twist in the tale. Or Bill Callahan in All Your Women Things - the frills left behind, turned into something monstrous, something uncomfortably alluring. Callahan takes the "frilly things/scattered round (his) room" and makes "a dolly/a spread-eagle dolly/out of your frilly things." He fucks it! Gross. You can’t quite look away. He’s not the sad man; he’s the man sadness got into and rewired. It's true horror compared to Jones's little boilerplate spook stories. These songs do what Jones's sometimes only gesture toward: they make the private public and the poetic real. They show us what it’s like to live with the aftermath, not just to sing about it. These are two songs about the same relationship, the two singers moving away from each other. Newsom leaving Callahan. It is agonisingly real, awkwardly honest. Perhaps that level of emotional realism is exploitative. Normal people might prefer the distance of George Jones's pose. He had his problems, probably worse than Newsom, Callahan, or Costello, but his restrained performance of a type of man is more functional than artistic. Yes, it might as well be a phonebook. Or might as well be the same ghost story you read every Hallowe'en. Maybe Jones is beloved not because he bleeds, but because he doesn’t. Because he presents sorrow as something that can be sung, sealed, and repeated. Like sad Tupperware. Lionel Trilling once traced the modern shift from sincerity – that is, being true to your role - to authenticity, being true to something deeper, stranger, more interior. Listening to The Grand Tour through that lens, I hear Jones as the last of the sincere men. His grief is a performance of consistency: same gestures, same house, same heartbreak. What once read as emotional truth now feels like genre fidelity. Authenticity, in contrast, has to be disruptive. It has to risk being a bit grotesque. Newsom and Callahan sing like people who have actually lived in the wreckage. Jones walks us through a grief-stricken house tidied up for visitors. You admire the effort, but you know that's not what it's like to live with loss. Costello, like Jones, is still performing a role - just a more modern one. He’s sincere about his desire for authenticity, but that’s not the same thing. You hear the strain, the deliberate construction. It’s closer to theatre than to raw confession. He calls himself “The Beloved Entertainer” and, yet, his songs of loss (Veronica, The Puppet has Cut his Strings, Almost Blue, I Want You) are anything but performative. They're always surprising. Maybe I hear, faintly, what Costello hears - the form, the shape of something deep, the telephone book as Book of the Dead. But it always feels like it’s happening elsewhere. Perhaps Jones works better as a ghost that haunts than as the haunted man himself. 2 This is an odd album. Not the music of course, which is as procedural as it gets, but the lyrics. George Jones chose a number of songs here that consistently cast him in what would be commonly supposed (certainly, I presume, in 1970s Texas) to be a woman’s part. The reluctant lover, wary of heartbreak (Pass Me By if you’re Only Passing Through); the adoring spouse welcoming back a partner who has cheated (Once You’ve Had the Best); the adoring spouse who is still being cheated on and is in denial (She Told Me So); the other woman (Borrowed Angel); and of course the abandoned, heartsick partner (the Grand Tour, Darlin’, Who Will I be loving now?). Maybe I just need to listen to more country music from a half century ago, which may all be like this (I won’t). I did a couple of years of listening to Downtown Country in work; modern country-pop where the men generally sing about beer, trucks and meeting their perfect wives. George seems remarkably secure in his masculinity by comparison. Great voice too - even if the too-Texan accent grates a little. The chorus of She Told Me So doesn’t make sense. 2/5
Ok 2/5
I don't really know what to say about this album. I have listened to it 3 times. Why? Because I found a bit of comfort in the way it sounds in terms of productions. It feels somewhat relaxing. But it is still a bit painful to sit through the more and more I listened to it. The third time I was wishing for it to finish when I had only reached the half point. Also, for once, I decided to look up for the lyrics. I felt curious when one of the times I was able to head the fantastic line which is 'Each night she thanks God for the day she found me'. Yes, these lyrics can get very very corny at times, and all the songs are about love or how he misses or will miss some other girl. Anyway, I don't really want to come back to this album. I'm very sure that there's dozens of other country albums that do it better.
George Jones: The Grand Tour: How dare a country singer disgrace the Grand Tour. Its country music: I don't like it. Nothing of note at all, its just fucking country music. The worst part is that this is definitely like "top tier" country music, and it still all sounds the same and is not interesting. At least the album is short. 4.5/10
At least it's short.
A voice made for Country music but just not for me. Includes a duet with the soon to be ex Tammy Wynette on Our Private Life.
Easy to listen to and it can be kind of fun. This isn't my kind of music but has a time and place. 4/10
3/10 I wasn't drunk so I didn't enjoy. 7-9-2025
Not my type of music but brings back memories of music my mom & grandparents listened to when I was a child. Wouldn't seek this out or listen to it again but didn't hate it.
Ich mag Musik mit Country-Einflüssen, aber in Reinform wie dieser ist mir das zu schmierig.
Most-all of the songs are covers or things he didn't write, so I guess my focus judging the album should be mostly on the sound itself? In which case it sounds like pretty normal old country music, I think? Maybe a little more of a consistently satisfying listen? It does sound pleasant. Maybe I've simply had a fundamental misunderstanding about the list. Maybe this album isn't on the list because it's one of the best works of music ever recorded, maybe it's on the list because Robert Dimery is worried that if you don't consume at least one album's-worth of standard country music, there'll be a gap left in your musical knowledge and you won't know what it's meant to sound like when Johnny Cash isn't there tearing it up. This is the king of competent music
Country has got to be one of the most uninventive genres. I’m not saying it can’t be interesting, but in the 60s and 70s American artists were producing country albums in such quantities that there was not enough time to innovate. There’s nothing to say about this album. It doesn’t have anything you wouldn’t hear in any other country album from the same time period. He can sing, but the music overall is very generic, uninspiring, and boring. At least it’s short…
Well at least this was a short album because one you've heard one song you've heard them all. Sure it's a great example of early country music and executed well but I don't necessarily need or want it. 4.25/10 (2.125/5)
Sad man sings of joyless infidelity.
No ta
I think this album is hard carried by the fact that he has a pretty nice voice. Instrumentally, this is chock full of country twang that grinds my gears. 2.5 Stars
There’s something strangely homely about this type of country; and I’m from Denmark. George Jones has me intrigued in the start, but The Grand Tour quickly turns out to be a one trick pony.
This is a fabulous album filled with painful memories. It's a hard one to listen to, but that's me personally. I think Jones has that singularly sweet voice loaded with reminisce for "the good ole days" and lyrics to match.
I like his clothes more than his music. Those encrusted rhinestones twankle bright (and partially make up for how boring his music is).
I’m sure George Jones’ “The Grand Tour” is a lovely example of the genre. But it’s a particular genre that I just can’t stand. The couple of faster-paced songs are the most tolerable.
So sloooow. Dude needs more pep in his step for this grand tour.
I wish more of this album were upbeat like Our Private Life.
I know every genre has songs about love and loss and heartache and being mistreated in a relationship. But there’s something about putting it over a steel guitar that makes it really off-putting.
Quality recording and good performance makes this album all the worse for me, as this is the type of country music I least appreciate.