I'm a bit of a casual fan of George Jones. Here he lays down a mix of skitterish honky-tonk and mellow melancholic ballads. I'm not usually someone who pays attention to lyrics in song, but George has got some good ones.
He and his country star wife Tammy Wynette divorced the year after this album was released (she later married one of George's collaborators on this album) and that building tension clearly feeds heavily into the tales of heartbreak and domestic sadness, such as in the title track.
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