Since making his chart debut in 1955 with Why, Baby, Why, George has packed his time in the music industry with a number of impressive achievements.

He has been awarded with countless trophies, honours and accolades over the years, starting with being named Billboard Magazine’s Most Promising New Country Vocalist.

He has won two prestigious Grammy awards - spaced almost twenty years apart. One in 1981 for He Stopped Love Her Today and the second in 1999 for Choices. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1992. Plus in 2002, he received a National Medal of Arts Honor from George W. Bush - the medal is America’s highest honour for achievements in the arts world.

During his career, George has released more charting singles (166) than any other artist. Plus he’s recorded over a thousand songs.

Among George’s famous hits which have kept listeners entertained for half a century are He Stopped Loving Her Today, White Lightening, She Thinks I Still Care, The Grand Tour, Why, Baby, Why, A Picture of Me Without You, Good Year For The Roses, The Race Is On, Who’s Gonna Fill Their Shoes and Choices.

On these tracks, he has collaborated with many of music’s biggest and most talented stars. These pairings started with Melba Montgomery and he has since sung with Gene Pitney, Tammy Wynette (his former wife), Ray Charles Keith Richards, Shelby Lynne and Merle Haggard.

George’s impressive career has been the subject of many one-off television shows including: With A Little Help From My Friends in 1981, and 1991’s Influences, plus the 2004 50th Anniversary Tribute special. He also penned his life story in I Lived To Tell It All, which proved popular with readers, reading number six on the New York Times’ Best Seller List.

He has also branched out into the food world. In 2003, he started his own brand of George Jones Country Style Breakfast Sausage and Country Style Hamburger Patties, plus marinades and barbecue sauces and George Jones White Lightning. His products on available on shelves in over 10,000 supermarket stores.

But George’s success story hasn’t been without its set-backs. In the late 1970s his heavy drinking and drug issues forced him to miss many of his live shows, which earned him the nickname “No Show Jones”. He entered rehab in the early 1980s and had appeared to have put his addictions behind him, until he had a relapse in the late nineties which caused a car crash in which he was critically injured. The incident forced him to get his life back on track.

To this day, George continues to wow crowds and headline almost a hundred shows every year. His most recent project was the album Hits I Missed, which featured him tackling classic songs and giving them his own unique sound.