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(8 customer reviews) 5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
you can build 'em strong and tall but Walls Can Fall...,
February 13, 2004 Jerry McDaniel - See all my reviews
This review is from: Walls Can Fall (Audio CD)
in terms of sales, this was George's biggest album during his MCA years. The album is GOLD {500,000 copies sold} and that's basically due to the lead-off song, "I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair". This became something of an anthem in George's concerts from 1992 through 1998...each performance being a blistering showcase of a wild George Jones pointing his finger and wiggling his body...having fun with the whole process of getting old and showing everyone that even though he was 61, it didn't mean he was broken down or slow. The rest of the songs are wonderful, particularly "There's the Door" and "Wrong's What I Do Best". I love the title track too...Merle Haggard's "The Bottle Let Me Down" as well as "Drive Me To Drink", "You Must Have Walked Across My Mind", "Finally Friday", and "There's the Door" made this album his first honky-tonk project in decades...it had been quite a while since the majority of a...Read more
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Awsome!!,
April 5, 2002 Gale M. Bettinger - See all my reviews
This review is from: Walls Can Fall (Audio CD)
George Jones is just wonderful. Finally Friday is the best picker upper and really gets me off to a great weekend! I just get totally energized when I hear this song.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
George begins a slow-but-sure process into bringing back the honky-tonk,
October 31, 2005 31-year old wallflower "Eric N Andrews" (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Walls Can Fall (Audio CD)
Hardly anyone would disagree that George Jones is truly one of the finest vocalists country music has ever had, and the fans know it as well, per the 150 country top 40 hits he has had in his career. However, people would think differently of the fact that he has recorded nothing but hardcore country throughout his career. During his early years when he recorded songs like "White Lightning" & "She Thinks I Still Care", that sentiment proved true. But when he moved to Epic Records in the early 1970s (the same label as his then-wife Tammy Wynette) & producer Billy Sherrill, George dove headlong into the equally-famous & infamous "Countrypolitan" sound that may have won country music a wider audience, but was reviled by Nashville elite as defanged country. George apparently did not mind too much as long as the hits kept coming & they did, but maybe by the late 1980s, even he grew tired of the whitewashed sound, and as he approached his 60th birthday, sought to shake things up a bit...Read more
