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| | Salon Brilliant Careers | George Jones (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Jones, unlike his idol Hank Williams, who died at 29, has had plenty of it under his belt, and while it's never a good idea to assume that anything a singer performs is necessarily autobiographical, there's just no way to listen to Jones' singing and not hear his life written in it. |
 | | The accident was a wake-up call of sorts, not just to Jones himself but to his fans -- a reminder that the artists we love best rarely behave as we'd like them to, sometimes almost willfully refusing to live lives that keep them safe and happy and productive. |
 | | Jones was born in Saratoga, Texas, near Beaumont, in 1931, himself the son of a temperamental drinking man. As with so many country musicians, the story of his impoverished childhood is bound tight with his love for music. |
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