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Just One More (song)
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Wikipedia article
"'Just One More'" is a 1956 country music song by American artist George Jones. It was released as a single on Starday Records in 1956 reached #3 on the 'Billboard' country singles chart. The song is often featured on his early compilation albums and was one of the most successful of his self-penned songs.
Background
"Just One More" is one of the earliest examples of the "hard" drinking songs for which Jones would become famous. The song describes a lonely, self-pitying man who is drinking to forget his worries:
Although he would adopt a more nuanced, quieter vocal approach in the next decade, Jones' performance on "Just One More" displays his incredible vocal range and power and sounds very much like a composition his hero Hank Williams could have sung. The slow honky-tonk beat is accompanied by a fiddle and steel guitar throughout. Like Williams, Jones had already been tagged as a problem drinker very early on in his career. In the liner notes to the 1994 Mercury retrospective 'Cup of Loneliness: The Classic Mercury Years', Colin Escott quotes the singer from an interview with John Dew: "[In] the dives and honky tonks the drunks were always blowing foul breath in my face, and the smell of whiskey was enough to knock you down if you hadn't had a few yourself. Drinking gives me courage. I'm easily depressed. I can feel it creeping up, and the best way to simmer down is with a drink."
Ernest Tubb covered the tune in 1956. In 1960 Johnny Cash recorded the song for his LP 'Now, There Was a Song!'
Chart performance
References
Category:1956 songs
Category:1956 singles
Category:George Jones songs
Category:Songs about alcohol
Category:Starday Records singles
Category:Songs written by George Jones
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