White Lightning and Other Favorites
| White Lightning and Other Favorites |
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| Studio album by George Jones | ||||||||||
| Released | May 26, 1959 | |||||||||
| Recorded | August 1956 - September 1958 | |||||||||
| Genre | Country, rockabilly | |||||||||
| Length | 28:58 | |||||||||
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Mercury MG-20477 |
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| Producer | Pappy Daily | |||||||||
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White Lightning and Other Favorites is the 1959 country music studio album released by George Jones on May 26, 1959. The album is Jones seventh studio album release, and its title track "White Lightning" was a #1 Country hit in 1959.
The album is one of the best, if not the best, albums that Jones released in the 1950s. The album charted well, and was one of the most popular country albums of 1959. It also plays some of Jones' first collaboration tracks. "I'm With the Wrong One" was his second collaboration, recorded in 1956 (the oldest song included on the LP) with Jennette Hicks. "Flame in My Heart" was his third collaboration, recorded with Virginia Spurlock in 1957.
In 1957, Jones signed to Mercury Records and began recording with them in Nashville, leaving the old Starday studio in Houston. White Lightning and Other Favorites was released on May 28, 1959 as a two-sided 33rpm LP. Both sides listed a collaboration and both ended in a Southern-Gospel tune. The oldest song included on the album was recorded at one of his last recording sessions with Starday Records in August 1956 titled: "I'm With the Wrong One," written by Early Montgomery.
"White Lightning" was released in February 1959, and became a #1 hit written by a close-friend of Jones', who wrote a Top 10 for Jones the previous year. The Big Bopper wrote the song and included on his only LP release. Jones asked his manager, H.W. "Pappy" Daily, if he could record it, and requested that he give it to nobody else. Jones recorded the song in September 1958 at the Bradley Film and Recording Studio in Nashville. It was released as a single three days after Richardson (The Bopper) died in a plane crash.
"That's the Way I Feel" was recorded in September 1957 and was written by Jones, like most of the tracks on the album. Jones would write or co-write 10 of the songs and all of Side 2. "Life to Go" was one of Jones best compositions, written after Jones played the Old Time Fiddlers Convention in Crockett, Texas with Jackson and Ernest Tubb. There was a prison there and, while walking around the grounds with Jackson, they began chatting with an inmate. At one point they asked him how much time he had left to serve, to which the prisoner replied, "I been here for eighteen years and still got life to go." "His remark chilled me to the bone," Jones wrote in his 1996 autobiography I Lived To Tell It All. "I had hated the prison, but I knew I'd be leaving. That man hated it more and knew he'd never leave. I wanted to get that prison out of my mind. But I couldn't." "Don't Do This To Me" was recorded on March 19, 1957 and written by Jones. "Wandering Soul" was recorded in September 1957 and was written by Bill Dudley and Jones.
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