George Jones had to nearly lose his life to finally get sober after years of battling a crippling addiction. It was 1999 and the country music singer was driving while talking to his stepdaughter ...

A list of the top George Jones songs reads like a list of the greatest songs in all of country music. When Jones was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1992, Reba McEntire introduced ...

George Jones was battling a crippling addiction to alcohol when he fell deeper into a rabbit hole. It was March 1977, two years after his divorce from Tammy Wynette, when he appeared on stage ...

A statue of George Jones was unveiled on the Ryman Auditorium's "Icons Walk." Jones joins other country music icons like Little Jimmy Dickens, Bill Monroe, Loretta Lynn, and Charley Pride on the ...

Tammy Wynette and George Jones were married from 1969 to 1975 Emily Shiffer is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work has been featured in Women's ...

With a quicksilver warble that captured the devastation of bad love, George Jones defined country music like no other singer in the 20th century. Jones' voice was a fluid and expressive instrument ...

During the final weeks of her life, Tammy Wynette had her ex-husband on her mind. The country music star passed away in 1998 at age 55 of heart failure. She and George Jones, country music’s ...

George Jones achieved 79 top 10 hits and 10 no. 1 hits including “He Stopped Loving Her Today,” which is widely recognized as the greatest country song of all time. In his lifetime ...

Tammy Wynette showed the world she loved George Jones. And she stood by her man, but could only be his wife for so long. Country's first couple while they were married—and still a formidable ...

There’s a photo from the 1950s of country singer George Jones standing against a car, squinting into the sun. Maybe it’s the uncomfortable half-smile or the way the shadows are hitting his 20 ...

I must admit that as much as I love the classic recordings of country music king and queen George Jones and Tammy Wynette — a whole damn lot — my first thought on learning that they would be ...