I wanted to get that prison out of my mind. That man hated it more and knew he'd never leave. "I had hated the prison, but I knew I'd be leaving. At one point they asked him how much time he had left to serve, to which the prisoner replied, "I been here for eighteen years and still got life to go." "His remark chilled me to the bone," Jones wrote in his 1996 autobiography I Lived To Tell It All. There was a prison there and, while walking around the grounds with Jackson, they began chatting with an inmate. " Life to Go" was one of Jones best compositions, written after Jones played the Old Time Fiddlers Convention in Crockett, Texas, with Jackson and Ernest Tubb.
Jones would write or co-write 10 of the songs and all of Side 2. " That's the Way I Feel" was recorded in September 1957 and was written by Jones, like most of the tracks on the album.
It was released as a single three days after Richardson (The Bopper) died in a plane crash. Jones recorded the song in September 1958 at the Bradley Film and Recording Studio in Nashville. "Pappy" Daily, if he could record it, and requested that he give it to nobody else. The Big Bopper wrote the song and included on his only LP release. " White Lightning" was released in February 1959, and became a #1 hit written by a close-friend of Jones', who wrote a Top 10 for Jones the previous year. The oldest song included on the album was recorded at one of his last recording sessions with Starday Records in August 1956 titled: " I'm With the Wrong One," written by Jones. Both sides listed a collaboration and both ended in a Southern-Gospel tune. White Lightning and Other Favorites was released on May 28, 1959, as a two-sided 33rpm LP. In 1957, Jones signed to Mercury Records and began recording with them in Nashville, leaving the old Starday studio in Houston. "Flame in My Heart" was his third collaboration, recorded as a duet with Virginia Spurlock and released as a single in 1957.Ĭomposition and recording Side one tracks "I'm With the Wrong One" was his second collaboration, recorded in 1956 (the oldest song included on the LP) as a duet with Jennette Hicks. It also contained some of Jones' first collaborations. The album charted well, and was one of the most popular country albums of 1959. The album is one of the most favorably regarded albums that Jones released in the 1950s. Its title track " White Lightning" was a #1 Country hit in 1959. White Lightning and Other Favorites is a studio album released by George Jones on May 26, 1959.
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