Artist	Song
Hank Williams	I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love With You) [Single Version]
from Gold: Hank Williams (2005)
Roy Acuff	The Precious Jewel
from The Essential Roy Acuff (2004)
Bill Monroe	Can't You Hear Me Calling
from 16 Gems (1996)
Lefty Frizzell	If You've Got the Money I've Got the Time
from Look What Thoughts Will Do (1997)
Ernest Tubb	Drivin' Nails In My Coffin
from Ernest Tubb: The Definitive Collection (2006)
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys	Bubbles in My Beer
from Boot Heel Drag - The MGM Years (2001)
Hank Thompson & His Brazo Valley Boys	The Wild Side of Life
from Vintage Collections (1996)
"Little" Jimmy Dickens	Hillbilly Fever
from "Little" Jimmy Dickens: 16 Biggest Hits (2006)
Ray Price	Crazy Arms
from The Essential Ray Price 1951-1962 (1991)
Floyd Tillman	Slipping Around
from Columbia Country Classics, Vol. 2: Honky Tonk Heroes (1991)
Gene Autry	It Makes No Difference Now
from The Essential Gene Autry (2005)
Jimmie Rodgers	Frankie and Johnny
from Essential Jimmie Rodgers (1997)
The Original Carter Family	Can the Circle Be Unbroken
from Can the Circle Be Unbroken: Country Music's First Family (2000)
Browns Ferry Four	Jesus Hold My Hand
from Fine Singing of Wonderful Sacred Country Songs (2008)
Blue Sky Boys	Farther Along
from On Radio-Volume 3 (1997)
Faron Young	Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young
from The Complete Capitol Hits of Faron Young (2008)
Webb Pierce	There Stands the Glass
from 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Webb Pierce (2001)
Hank Snow, The Singing Ranger, And His Rainbow Ranch Boys	I Don't Hurt Anymore
from The Essential Hank Snow (1995)
Leon Payne	Lost Highway
from Early Country and Western from Bullet Records of Nashville (2010)
Ted Daffan's Texans	Born to Lose
from Country: The American Tradition (1999)

Comment:

His reign stretches so far back, his roots run so deep, it's hard to imagine country music before its king. Well, allow us to turn back time. Roy Acuff howls like a hillbilly hound dog over his lifeless love in "The Precious Jewel," straddling the boundary between old-timey folk and what we now know as country. A few years later, Lefty Frizzell serves up a combo plate of honky-tonk piano and hardcore twang with a side of Western swing in "If You've Got the Money I've Got the Time." But it's George's idol, Hank Williams — who, incidentally, was born only two years before Jones — perfecting the mixology of blood, sweat, and beers in "I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love With You)" that leaves the biggest single stamp on G.J.'s sound, career, and early lifestyle. From Bob Wills to Gene Autry, from Hank Snow to Bill Monroe, we've got all the sounds and styles that shaped country music's all-time crooning champ.

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