George Jones Interview: Country Icon on His Country Crossing Involvement and Latest Recording
Written by Marc Parker and Melissa Benefield Parker, Posted in Interviews Musicians
Born on September 12, 1931, George Glenn Jones was raised in Saratoga, Texas, near the city of Beaumont, and was exposed to country music at age seven when his parents bought a radio. His first guitar was given to him two years later; and when he left home at sixteen he found work singing and playing on a local radio station in Jasper, Texas.
