Jelly Roll and Wynonna discuss their first memories of George Jones and his lasting impact on country music.
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♪♪ I think of him as you know, bigger than life, he to me is like, you know, you see that those shows about Moses, you know, those stories about the Bible.
I just think Johnny Cash, George Jones, Merle Haggard -- those are the landmarks, that it's a massive, you know, Stonehenge just bigger than life characters.
♪♪ I don't, I probably don't remember the first time I heard a George Jones song because I was probably four.
Right?
With my family, but I remember hearing it all through my life.
It wasn't like something that - it became a regular thing.
I just knew by the time I was old enough to know or care who he was I already knew the voice.
My family was so big into playing music all the time.
And, you know, it was also like even though that most people came from outside of Nashville, we took great pride in Nashville being the hub, as locals for this thing.
So there was like an extreme ownership of country music in our household because we felt like it was ours.
Like in our weird Nashville minds, we did this, you know what I mean?
It was like fighting for a home football.
So, you know, Ive been listening to George Jones as long as I can remember.
♪♪ ♪♪ I know that we, I, am looking for something real.
You know, in a world that, gosh, we don't even know if people are real in the way they look.
Let alone, you know, what's real in music is George Jones one of the greatest singers of all time?
Absolutely.
He is a national treasure.
He's not just country music.
Which I mean, he is as big as anything can ever be in this life.
And so I think this is part of America, you know, the tapestry of, you know, the traditional.
I think people want something that reminds them of something good, something that they remember.
You know, George Jones has been playing in the background of my life soundtrack my entire life.
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