I hope all of you in the USA enjoyed a wonderful Fourth of July holiday. As someone mentioned, they could almost make that a holiday week. I spent an easy week myself just working on cars and checking on car parts. It’s a hobby so that’s not work for me.
I came across some old photos I wanted to share with you. I had the good fortune to meet @George Jones early in my career and I got to work with him on occasion over the years. We recorded the Christmas song “Silver Bells” which you can hear on YouTube. We actually had planned to release an entire album of duets but we weren’t on the same record label and I think that kept that project shelved. But we did enjoy each other’s company and of course I greatly admired George.
The oldest photo seen below was from when I toured with him in Canada. He’d always call me back to end his show and sing the Gospel song with him “Me and Jesus ( Got Our Own Thing Going)” – written by Tom T. Hall.
Onstage in the ‘80s with George Jones in Canada, singing “Me and Jesus” – we’d sing this to close his show every night.
This was probably 2011- we were recording a song “Didn’t We Shine” for Randy Travis’s 25th Anniversary Celebration album in Nashville. I’m not sure, but I suspect we were discussing something about cars and what we preferred about certain models because George collected cars like some of us collect guitars. That’s Joe Stampley on the right, listening to the discussion.