Showing posts with label George Jones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label George Jones. Show all posts

Monday, 12 August 2019

Waylon said it would help

George Jones was probably the worst. I worked a show with him once and we were standing in the wings waiting to go on. He was acting a little peculiar, so I asked, "You been drinking, George?"
"Naw," he said. "I been working on my drinking problem."
"How's that?"
By way of an answer, he reached in his coat pocket, pulled out a handful of cocaine, and buried his nose in it, snorting. Then, when he'd fixed up that side of his nose, he went after the other.
"How's that working for you?" I asked
"Pretty good," he said. "Waylon said it would help."

C. Louvin, Satan is real: the ballad of the Louvin brothers (2012), 194-5