George Jones released his comeback album ‘Cold Hard Truth’ 21 years ago today. Watch him sing the LP’s centerpiece, “Choices”
Two months before the LP’s release, Jones nearly lost that battle when, on the afternoon of March 6th, 1999, the Lexus SUV he was driving slammed into a concrete bridge abutment on Highway 96 southeast of Nashville. While Jones was being treated at Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s trauma unit for a ruptured liver, collapsed lung, and internal bleeding, a media frenzy ensued almost immediately with speculation as to the cause.
Jones recovered from the near-fatal wreck, and the occasional glasses of wine that he would enjoy, as well as his longtime smoking habit, would soon become a thing of the past.was released without a significant delay and became a critical favorite. It reached Number Five on the country albums chart, his first to do so in 13 years. “Choices” only reached Number 30, but went on to win Jones a Grammy.
Jones was invited to sing the song on the CMA Awards that year, but refused when producers only allotted him an abbreviated performance slot. Fans heard it anyway, however, thanks to Alan Jackson, who hijacked his own performance of “Pop a Top” to deliver a heartfelt rendition of “Choices” in honor of his hero. Not long after, Jones would refer back to the CMAs when, in a CBS special, he sang “Choices” and prefaced it with a thank-you to Jackson and his own snippet of “Pop a Top.
A song about Jones’ near-death experience arrived 10 years after the Possum’s accident when Drive-By Truckers issued a 2009 collection of covers and rarities — including member Patterson Hood’s “George Jones Talkin’ Cell Phone Blues.”
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