Artist	Song
George Jones	White Lightning
from The Definitive Collection: George Jones (1955-1962) (2004)
George Jones	If Drinkin' Don't Kill Me (Her Memory Will)
from I Am What I Am (2000)
George Jones	You're Still on My Mind
from The Definitive Collection: George Jones (1955-1962) (2004)
George Jones	Choices
from Cold Hard Truth (2008)
George Jones	Just One More
from The Definitive Collection: George Jones (1955-1962) (2004)
George Jones	The King Is Gone (So Are You)
from 16 Biggest Hits: George Jones (1998)
George Jones	The Honky Tonk Downstairs
from The Definitive George Jones Collection (2009)
George Jones	Tennessee Whiskey
from Shine On (2008)
George Jones	Still Doin' Time
from Still the Same Ole Me (2008)
George Jones	Bartender's Blues
from Bartender's Blues (2008)
George Jones	I Threw Away the Rose
from Flowers for Mama (2009)
George Jones	Honky Tonk Song
from I Lived to Tell It All (2007)
George Jones	A Drunk Can't Be a Man
from Alone Again (2008)
George Jones	Heartaches and Hangovers
from The Definitive George Jones Collection (2009)
George Jones	I've Aged Twenty Years In Five
from I Am What I Am (2000)
George Jones	Swinging Doors
from The Definitive George Jones Collection (2009)
George Jones	Wine (You've Used Me Long Enough)
from Nothing Ever Hurt Me (2008)
George Jones	The Bottle Let Me Down
from Walls Can Fall (1992)
George Jones	Brothers of a Bottle
from Swingin' Doors (2008)
George Jones	Ol' George Stopped Drinkin' Today
from Shine On (2008)

Comment:

When George Jones walks into a bar, they don't need sawdust to soak up the spilled beer and shed tears; he'll do it himself, mopping up triple-distilled sorrow by the case with his songs. Think of this playlist as the first dark night in a lost weekend, opening with the bone-weary heartache of "You're Still on My Mind," as Jones learns that there's not enough whiskey in all of Tennessee to blot out the woman who left him high and anything [i]but[/i] dry. As the night wears on and the bottled-in-bond wisdom settles in, he figures that "If Drinkin' Don't Kill Me (Her Memory Will)," not much caring which one does it first. And when the morning after creeps out from behind its booze-soaked haze, he comes to as a sadder but wiser man in "Choices," trying to put back together a life that the bottle tore apart. If ever the barroom had its own battle-scarred bard, Jones is it, and these songs are his 100-proof tales of truth.

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