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Country music scholar Bill Malone writes, For the two or three minutes consumed by a song, Jones immerses himself so completely in its lyrics, and in the mood it conveys, that the listener can scarcely avoid becoming similarly involved. Waylon Jennings expressed a similar opinion in his song Its Alright If we all could sound like we wanted to, wed all sound like George Jones. The shape of his nose and facial features earned Jones the nickname The Possum. Born in Texas, Jones first heard country music when he was seven and was given a guitar at the age of nine. He married his first wife, Dorothy Bonvillion, in 1. He served in the United States Marine Corps and was discharged in 1. He married Shirley Ann Corley in 1. In 1. 95. 9, Jones recorded White Lightning, written by J. P. Richardson, which launched his career as a singer. His second marriage ended in divorce in 1. Tammy Wynette a year later. Many years of alcoholism caused his health to deteriorate severely and led to his missing many performances, earning him the nickname No Show Jones. After his divorce from Wynette in 1. Jones married his fourth wife, Nancy Sepulvado, in 1. Jones died in 2. 01. During his career, Jones had more than 1. Life and careereditEarly years 1. George Glenn Jones was born on September 1. Saratoga, Texas, and was raised in Colmesneil, Texas, with his brother and five sisters. His father, George Washington Jones, worked in a shipyard and played harmonica and guitar while his mother, Clara, played piano in the Pentecostal Church on Sundays. During his delivery, one of the doctors dropped Jones and broke his arm. When he was seven, his parents bought a radio and he heard country music for the first time. Jones recalled to Billboard in 2. Saturday nights listening to the Grand Ole Opry and insist that his mother wake him if he fell asleep so he could hear Roy Acuff or Bill Monroe. In his autobiography I Lived To Tell It All, Jones explains that the early death of his sister Ethel spurred on his fathers drinking problem and, by all accounts, George Washington Jones could be physically and emotionally abusive to his wife and children when he drank. In the book George Jones The Life and Times of a Honky Tonk Legend, Bob Allen recounts how George Washington Jones would return home in the middle of the night with his cronies roaring drunk, wake up a terrified George Glenn Jones and demand that he sing for them or face a beating. In a CMT episode of Inside Fame dedicated to Jones life, country music historian Robert K. Oermann marveled, You would think that it would make him not a singer, because it was so abusively thrust on him. But the opposite happened he became a chronic singer. He became someone who had to sing. In the same program, Jones admitted that he remained ambivalent and resentful towards his father up until the day he died and observed in his autobiography The Jones family makeup doesnt sit well with liquor. Daddy was an unusual drinker. He drank to excess but never while working, and he probably was the hardest working man Ive ever known. His father bought him his first guitar at age nine and he learned his first chords and songs at church and there are several photographs of a young George busking on the streets of Beaumont. He left home at 1. Jasper, Texas, where he sang and played on the KTXJ radio station with fellow musician Dalton Henderson. From there, he worked at the KRIC radio station. During one such afternoon show, Jones met his idol, Hank Williams I just stared, he later wrote. In the 1. Same Ole Me, Jones admitted, I couldnt think or eat nothin unless it was Hank Williams, and I couldnt wait for his next record to come out. He had to be, really, the greatest. He married his first wife Dorothy Bonvillion in 1. He was enlisted in the United States Marines until his discharge in 1. He was stationed in San Jose, California for his entire service. First recordings 1. Jones married Shirley Ann Corley in 1. His first record, the self penned No Money in This Deal, was recorded on January 1. February on Starday Records, beginning the singers association with producer and mentor H. W. Pappy Daily. The song was actually cut in Starday Records co founder Jack Starnes living room and produced by Starnes. Jones also worked at KTRM now KZZB in Beaumont around this time. Deejay Gordon Baxter told Nick Tosches that Jones acquired the nickname possum while working there One of the deejays there, Slim Watts, took to calling him George P. Willicker Picklepuss Possum Jones. For one thing, he cut his hair short, like a possums belly. He had a possums nose and stupid eyes, like a possum. During his early recording sessions, Daily admonished Jones for attempting to sound too much like his heroes Hank Williams and Lefty Frizzell. In later years, Jones would have little good to say about the music production at Starday, recalling to NPR in 1. We recorded in a small living room of a house on a highway near Beaumont. You could hear the trucks. We had to stop a lot of times because it wasnt soundproof, it was just egg crates nailed on the wall and the big old semi trucks would go by and make a lot of noise and wed have to start over again. Jones first hit came with Why Baby Why in 1. That same year, while touring as a cast member of the Louisiana Hayride, Jones met and played shows with Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash. I didnt get to know him that well, Jones said of Presley to Nick Tosches in 1. He stayed pretty much with his friends around him in his dressing room. Nobody seemed to get around him much any length of time to talk to him. Jones would, however, remain a lifelong friend of Johnny Cash. Jones was invited to sing at the Grand Ole Opry in 1. With Presleys explosion in popularity in 1. Jones to cut a few rockabilly sides and he reluctantly agreed. His heart was never in it, however, and he quickly regretted the decision in his autobiography he joked, During the years, when Ive encountered those records, Ive used them for Frisbees. He explained to Billboard in 2. I was desperate. When youre hungry, a poor man with a house full of kids, youre gonna do some things you ordinarily wouldnt do.