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D. Striker



Last Updated: 12/29/2009

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Status: Single
City: NASHVILLE
State: Tennessee
Country: US
Signup Date: 2/18/2005
Friday, September 18, 2009 
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What does 78-year-old country music icon George Jones wish he could find on the radio dial? Country music, for one. Jones tells The 9513, "The radio don't play traditional country music like it used to. I listen to Alan Jackson and ....George.. ..Strait..... They're still on the stations. And we like Sugarland, too. Most of the new artists, they understand me. We're good friends. Kenny Chesney is like my son, [along with] Dierks Bentley, and several of them. They know I love traditional music and I know what they have to do. We still all go out and have a steak together; they're good people and they do good work. [It] just ain't what I like anymore." So who else does George dig? Jones reveals that it's Jamey Johnson, adding, "He's coming along pretty good, but I don't know how long they're gonna play him because he's country and real traditional. But he's had some real good success early, and that looks good for him."

If George had to sum up who he is, he'll tell you, "Well, I'm a traditional country artist. I always have been and I always will be. I love it so much - I always have - that when you speak of traditional country music, it's like a religion to me. I didn't get started seeking glory or seeking big dollars or being somebody big. I came into it because I loved what I was doing."