George Jones: Voices, Vices, and a Comeback for the Ages
DISGRACELAND
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🗓️ 16 June 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
George Jones possessed one of the finest and most expressive instruments God ever created: his voice, which is widely considered the greatest in country music. But he was also possessed by demons who haunted him his whole life, and heard voices that tormented and controlled him. His addictions to drugs and alcohol made him legendarily unreliable, earning him the nickname "No Show Jones." But just when George Jones was at his lowest, a song came along that would change everything - proving that his voice could still work wonders.
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| 0:00.0 | This is exactly right. |
| 0:10.4 | Double Elvis. |
| 0:13.3 | This episode contains content that may be disturbing to some listeners. |
| 0:17.5 | Please check the show notes for more information. |
| 0:21.1 | Disgrace Land is a production of Double Elvis. |
| 0:33.2 | This is a story about a country singer, a country singer who heard voices, a country singer with |
| 0:39.4 | the greatest voice in country music history, and a country singer with demons. |
| 0:45.5 | It's also a story of a shooting, an escape, a crash, and of course, redemption, sort of. |
| 0:59.1 | This is the story of George Jones, a man who made great music. |
| 1:05.0 | Some of the greatest music of all time. You're still on my mind, anyone? Seriously, find me a better country song than George Jones's You're Still on My Mind. That song is great music, and that music at the top of the show |
| 1:12.8 | wasn't great music. That was a preset loop for my Melotron called Playing Pawsome MK2. I played you |
| 1:20.9 | that loop because I can't afford the rights to boogie, oggy, oogie by a taste of honey. |
| 1:25.9 | And why would I play you that specific slice of nose candy cheese could I afford it? |
| 1:32.1 | Because that was the number one song in America on September 13, 1978. |
| 1:37.6 | And that was the day that the demons in George Jones' head |
| 1:40.3 | tried to convince him to murder his best friend, Earl Peanut Montgomery. |
| 1:45.5 | On this episode, a shooting, an escape, a crash, and the greatest singer of all time, |
| 1:52.5 | no-show George Jones. I'm Jake Brennan, and this is Disgraceland. |
| 2:25.2 | Thank you. And this is the Scraiceland. George Jones took a snort of powder lined up on the back of the toilet tank. |
| 2:28.9 | Then he took a slug of whiskey from the flask in his coat pocket. |
| 2:33.3 | He looked at the airline ticket to New York City resting on the sink. |
| 2:37.6 | And then he stared out the bathroom window to his truck out in the parking lot, |
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