We Go Together

Studio album by George Jones and Tammy Wynette

Released

November 13, 1971

George Jones chronology

George Jones Sings the Great Songs of Leon Payne
(1971)

We Go Together
(1971)

A Picture of Me (Without You)
(1972)

Tammy Wynette chronology

Tammy's Greatest Hits: Volume 2
(1971)

We Go Together
(1971)

We Can Sure Love Each Other
(1971)

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We Go Together is an album by American country music artists George Jones and Tammy Wynette. This album was released on November 13, 1971 on the Epic Records label. This is Jones' first album with Epic and his then wife Tammy Wynette. This is also Jones' first album with producer Billy Sherrill.

Although Jones and Wynette had been married since 1969 and had toured together for years, they had not been able to record together due to record contract constraints, although Tammy had sung backup on a handful of George's songs while he was on the Musicor label and had even appeared on the cover of his 1969 LP I'll Share My World With You. Jones eventually broke his contract with Musicor at a hefty sum so he could join Tammy at Epic Records and record with her producer Billy Sherrill. As Jones recalled in his memoir I Lived To Tell It All, "I paid $300,000 to get out of one contract so I could enter another." Jones pairing with Sherrill came as a surprise to many; Sherrill and business partner Glenn Sutton are regarded as the defining influences of the countrypolitan sound, a smooth amalgamation of pop and country music that was popular during the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s, a far cry from what was George's honky tonk roots. As they admitted in the 1989 Jones documentary Same Ole Me, they were both extremely nervous, with Sherrill commenting, "I was scared to death. I was scared of him - he said he was scared of me." Sherrill added that one modification he did make to Jones's style was having him sing in lower keys because he found the vocals on his early records "really, really high, and kind of annoying, to me." In the same film, Jones explains that when the producer got to know him and his feelings that he wanted to do strictly country arrangements - what Jones called "hard-core country" - it all worked out. When asked about recording Jones and Wynette, Sherill told Dan Daley in 2002, "It did increase my scotch intake some. We started out trying to record the vocals together, but George drove Tammy crazy with his phrasing. He never, ever did it the same way twice. He could make a five-syllable word out of 'church.' Finally, Tammy said, 'Record George and let me listen to it, and then do my vocal after we get his on tape.' Tammy was a very quick study."

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