Country Weekly said of the album, "At age 67, George is singing better than ever, and proves here that there’s no substitute for experience. "You Never Know Just How Good You've Got It" was originally recorded by Tracy Byrd on his 1994 album No Ordinary Man.Īfter years of country radio indifference, Cold Hard Truth was released to raves and shot to number 5 on Billboard's country albums charts, the first Jones album to do so since Wine Colored Roses in 1986, and even hit number 53 on the Billboard Top 200 chart. Vince Gill and Patty Loveless provide background vocals on the album's closing tracks "When The Last Curtain Falls". Alan Jackson was disappointed with the association's decision and halfway through his own performance during the show he signaled to his band and played part of Jones' song in protest. Jones refused and did not attend the show. The song was also at the center of controversy when the Country Music Association invited Jones to perform it on the awards show, but required that he perform an abridged version. The music video, which features photographs of the singer throughout his life, had a more gripping resonance in light of Jones's recent drunk driving incident with lines like, "Now I'm living and dying with the choices I've made." Radio stations began receiving calls to hear it and the song eventually won Jones the Grammy for Best Male Country Vocal Performance. Its most popular song was " Choices", a confessional ballad tailor-made for Jones to sing. I don't crave it."Ĭold Hard Truth was Jones's first album for Asylum Records after leaving MCA Nashville and was produced by Keith Stegall. I didn't have to have no help, I made up my mind to quit. The crash was a significant turning point, as Jones explained to Billboard in 2006: ".when I had that wreck I made up my mind, it put the fear of God in me. Virginia Eddy commented to Jim Patterson of The Associated Press that the 67-year-old singer was "at death's door when he came in." The doctors were astonished at the rate of his recovery. Perhaps I was always just an old fashion drunk.") Dr. (In his memoir published three years earlier, Jones admitted that he sometimes had a glass of wine before dinner and that he still drank beer occasionally but insisted, "I don't squirm in my seat, fighting the urge for another drink" and speculated, ".perhaps I'm not a true alcoholic in the modern sense of the word. He was rushed to the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he was released two weeks later. The album was released on June 22, 1999, on the Asylum label.Ĭold Hard Truth was released only three months after Jones was involved in a drunk driving incident when he crashed his sport utility vehicle near his home. Cold Hard Truth is the 56th studio album by American country music singer George Jones.
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