The Grand Tour

OMG so much heartbreak! I can’t believe these 11 women all left the same guy. I like this type of pure country, with the signature slide guitar, his aching voice and the hurtin’ lyrics. I was having a rough afternoon, driving around downtown (at a walking pace) trying to pick-up food donations, but it was hard to be in a bad mood with lyrics like “As you leave you'll see the nursery, Oh she left me without mercy, Taking nothing but our baby and my heart.”

Extrem gemütlich

I don't like modern country, but I do like the older country. This album is pretty great!

4, de fanade. Den sista sången va lite lame dock!!

Good ole country yeeharrr. Also a generous amount of lap steel guitar

Helig baserad.

Lots of dreary vocals that hang tortured to the end. Why do so many old love songs just sound like the diary of a creep?

Sappy old drunk, he sang the same song 11 different ways on this album. It gets old fast. But he does have a nice voice.

I might listen again if I were in the right place and the right mood

one of the great country voices

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.

I'm sure this is a seminal country album. And there's no denying his beautiful voice and story telling talents....but it's just not a genre that I enjoy listening to. 2.5 stars

Solid country album

Very sentimental 70s country.

Like okay, but never been my genre

Not one of my favorites

The end of country music that I don’t enjoy. Not much wit, all a bit ballady.

It's country.

The bland tour

No thank you

Some songs were really good, like the rocking chair one, but otherwise it was kind of dull

Snore

Dit is niet te harden zeg! Wat een gezever: You got more love in your little finger than all the rest!

Pfff, country. Kweet nie hor. Heb er snel even doorheen geluisterd. Niet te doen.

😫

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

no, just no

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

Not my favorite genre but it wasn’t too bad.

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.

Never heard of this one, which is nice. Country! The grand tour; absolute standard country. I quite like it, but maybe will get bored. Darlin' - slow, lovely weepy guitars. pass me by: again, lovely guitar sound. she'll love the one she's with: slow but pretty. once you've had the best weatherman: borrowed angel: quite like this, but still very trad. she told me so: sad chords mary don't go 'round: who will I be loving now: too slow our private live: has a 'cartoon' feel to it. I liked it more than i'd like to admit!

its alright

As far as country goes, this is quality. As far as music, it just ain’t got it for me.

Nice nostalgic memories of this guy playing from my Nan’s kitchen radio. Overall a pretty alright album.

Very county

George has a cool voice and a lot of great tunes here. The title track is the stuff you think of when you think of classic country. Very clean production and overall a joy to listen to.

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”

country

Too much country, not my thing.

Classic country sound, although a bit slow and simple

Mid 70s country. A bit cringy by today's light but still great for the time period

Good for comedy value. Cliched country, all male voices sound the same, it could be Garth Brooks or Waylon Jennings, I can't tell them apart, not unpleasant but just jaded. Modern (especially female, eg Moll Tuttle) country is way better these days.

Incredibly sweet. Very much too much so.

A nice, comfy country album, but it didn't strike my particular taste in country. Still really solid, though!

The Grand Tour and Once You've Had The Best WRECKED my heart

I dig this! Country is the OG emo

Fun album, worth a listen.

Easily forgettable easy-listening. But it didn't offend me.

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.

Respeito mas não é a minha.

Um álbum muito melódico, mas relativamente semelhante e longe de algo goste. Nota:5/10

Only really a fan of the title track - everything else was just pretty boring. It's gonna take a bit more for me to enjoy country music Liked: The Grand Tour

Saved Prior: None Off Rip: The Grand Tour, Darlin', The Weatherman Cutting Edge: None Overall Notes: Saw someone call this the country "In The Wee Small Hours". I don't even especially like that album but let's pump the breaks. There are some good songs on here though.

Not for me

The Possum belts out some pure home distilled country. BT: The Grand Tour, Pass Me By (If You're Only Passing Through), Once You've Had the Best

nice sad cowboy music. short and sweet.

Just too slow for me.

I don’t normally listen to country, but this was alright. Might listen again

Meh. George was alright.

Very nice. George Jones’s voice is the epitome of old country crooning and I’m here for it. This album makes me want to be on the road by myself with all the windows down, driving across the desert.

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.

I feel asleep after the first song

Sad to the max

Sad old country music. Classic.

This is a comfy album that's great with morning coffee (or an evening drink). Just the right amount of country drawl and simple strumming makes Jones a solid artist for his time. Not much of a country guy here, but if I can enjoy a country album then the name on the front must be pretty damn good.

Nice bit of Country 🤠

Nice voice. It's fine I guess, I don't listen much to 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.

Was alright. Forgotten it already though. 5/10

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.

1974 was a hell of a year for George Jones creatively, with one of his finest Epic records, The Grand Tour, being issued that year. Jones' partnership with producer Billy Sherrill saw some of its finest fruit here. The Grand Tour was a watershed for Jones, boasting the title track as one of the most devastating country singles ever issued that came so close to crossing over it was being played on some adult pop stations along with Sinatra, Bennett, Dionne Warwick, and Herb Alpert. Ironically, one of the co-authors of the tune was none other than Jones' about-to-be-ex-wife Tammy Wynette's future husband George Richey. If ever there were a song that cut too close to home for the singer it was this one. Sherrill worked his most creative magic over it, with a string section that only revealed the size of itself when he wasn't singing and filled in between the guitars, piano, and pedal steel during the sung lines. Jones poured his heart into every syllable and its chilling quality after almost 30 years attests to this. But this cut was only the beginning. "Pass Me By (If You're Only Passing Through)" with the Jordanaires is one of those haunting, mid-tempo honky tonk love songs that won't let go after the first chorus has been sung. As ballads go, "She'll Love the One She's With" by Hank Cochran and Grady Martin is one of those jealous country waltzes where obsession and love continually cross each other. Shored up by a small string orchestra and a pedal steel cascading through the vocal lines, it's wrenching and poetic. Johnny Paycheck's classic ballad "Once You've Had the Best" is done poetic and musical justice by Jones and Sherrill; in fact, this version blows away the author's. And in a nod to both Bakersfield and Jones' "Thumper" period, "The Weatherman" is a honky tonk stomper also partially authored by Richey and it sounds as if it were written just for this session; coming in the middle of a host of broken love songs, this is an optimistic, even giddy tune with a Mickey Raphael harmonica solo and a Don Rich sound-alike guitar break in the middle. Ultimately, this is Jones' country, the kind of country music that is pure yet as sophisticated as Sherrill wanted it to be. Chet Atkins and all of his countrypolitan productions never had anything on Sherrill, and with the greatest singer in the music's history as part of the team, combined with a collection of absolutely staggering songs (only I Am What I Am rivals it), this is one of the finest country records of the '70s and perhaps in the top 100 of all time.

Same as At Folsom Prison. I hated it. Country music just isn't for me.

Didn't mind it. Authentic at least

Classic country with a classic country voice. Short album. 4/10.

Not my thing but listened all the way through / bumped the rating because 1. Only 28 mins and 2. Gma K loved this guy - nostalgia value gets 1 extra ⭐

cry about it, why dont ya

If I like this album, am I white trash?

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....

I thought it was really good. The instrumentation was beautiful. The songs are well written. I gave it a second listen after. The short length plays to its advantage.

Not my cup of tea, but appreciated.

The worst.

Not my style

I'm developing a soft spot for old-school country. What a voice.

That’s good old country

Got a bit bored

Not for me

Meh. Hard to really be objective here. I can deal with country sometimes. Not really today.

Very Neil Young vibes

Baaad!

Was intrigued after I saw Tales From The Tour Bus episodes about George Jones and Tammy Wynette. It opens with probably the best song on the album "The Grand Tour". Can feel some emotional depth behind the album; unfortunately I'm so predisposed to hate twangy country, it's hard to give it much time or think I'd relisten to it that often.

Not terrible, it's old people country. 1.5 if I could. more honest than Odelay.

not for me

Always thought George Jones was a bit overrated and this didn't change my mind I'm afraid. Really short album though at just 28 minutes for 11 songs.

Solid old school country!

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!

Dicknose Carrey Does It Again

Uninteresting

Such a romantic. Only a couple songs that were a little weird. Old country is fun!

I can tolerate some old country

meh, too slow for me

Country music, and kinda bland country music at that.

really not my style

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...

Nothing special.

Epitome of a classic Country record. George may be the best voice to ever record Country Music and his arrangements allow his voice to evolve to a godly state. As a full album, this set of songs is overshadowed by The Grand Tour and a couple other solid songs whereas the rest sometimes drop into the background. Stand Outs: The Grand Tour, Once You've Had the Best, Who Will I Be Loving Now

Solid country

So this album made one thing abundantly clear to me: I REALLY HATE STEEL GUITAR. The first couple of tracks are heavy on the slide steel and I was in misery. Then it got to Pass Me By and She'll Love the One She's With and... I didn't hate 'em. In fact, I kinda liked 'em. In fact, about half the album is pretty alright. The other half, however, is like fingernails on a chalkboard. I was fully prepared to give this one star after song one. But the good songs brought the score up. Also, even though it's 11 songs, the album is only 28 minutes long. So, an extra star for brevity.

God gammel country, kærlighed, afslappende

Country pop-ish, was not really a fan but it often needs to be exceptional for me to like it in the genere in general, liked that it was short

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.