I Lived to Tell It All

I enjoyed reading and loved learning more about George's upbringing and life events. He sure had an interesting life. Great book for a fan!

An interesting read if you want to read page after page of drug and alcohol fueled behavior. It seems that he took pride in being an insufferable pain in the ass to everyone in his life. Hopefully, the Merle Haggard book will be more entertaining.

Good book about George that we know are true facts as it was written when he was alive. I enjoyed the book and his music.

I love autobiographies when I feel like I’ve just spent hours listening to an old friend tell me their life story. Very well written. Very conversational. I learned so much about a man that I have long admired. I loved his honesty and heartfelt love of country music and his fans. I now want to read Tammy’s book and see her side of the story, and read Georgette Jones’ book as well.I bought the book because I watched the show on Showtime, but I’ve always been huge fans of The Mr. and Mrs. of Country Music!!

I try to avoid ghostwritten autobiographies, but George Jones is too fascinating a figure for me not to want to hear what he has to say about his life in what is nominally his own voice. The way Tom Carter shapes it does make the prose seem to match up with the way Jones spoke in interviews of him that I've read, so I'm inclined to give it the benefit of the doubt. Jones also frequently admits that certain accounts in the book are entirely sourced from Carter's interviews of other participants in various incidents because Jones could not remember them himself.Most importantly, I LIVED TO TELL IT ALL is a gripping and harrowing story. If you've gotten enough into Jones that you're reading Amazon reviews of his autobiography, you probably know some of the reason why, but be prepared for some of the most unvarnished and painfully honest confessions of an addict's life, and a downright terrifying chronicle of a descent into psychosis that easily could've been permanent.It should be noted that this book shouldn’t be considered 100% accurate in all respects. This is more often because of things Jones doesn’t remember—requiring Carter to dig them up and present them to Jones for a reaction, which Jones admits is what happened—than because of straight up lying. But there’s definitely some questionable stuff, and not nearly as much detail on the actual music as most fans would probably like. (The best breakdown of these discrepancies can be found in season 2 of Tyler Mahan Coe’s superlative country music podcast COCAINE & RHINESTONES.)Nevertheless, it’s an essential read for all country music fans by simple virtue of who its subject is. Also, it’s not all doom and gloom. There's plenty of humor, too, and Jones's gratitude for having been able to live his life as a country musician shines through.

george gones has been rated maybe the best country music singer of all time, even his peers who is in the music business, merle haggard, johnny cash, randy travis, allen jackson, ricky skaggs, just to name a few but this is a tell all book from george himself how he survied the music business till he died this year in may, from his humble beginings to all the riches and fame, how lots of people he trusted took advantage of him, stole his money, got him hooked on drugs, just to control him, he admits he wasn,t proud of some of the things he did, but all he ever wanted to do was sing, he wasnt so much worried about the fame it just came with bright country singer he was, thats why he said his book i lived to tell it all is so great, he doesnt hide the truth a book you want put down if your a classic music fan, ps thank god in 1980 he found a real lady that loved him and was with him until may of this year when george glenn possoum jones passed away, i was a radio d j 23 years an played his music many hours buy the book you,ll love it if you like autobiography

George tells it like it really was! An in-depth, sometimes gut-wrenching, account of how he lived his life. Makes you wonder how he lived to be 81!

He stopped loving her today was played at my brothers funeral. George Jones will live in this heart as long as it beats. Thank you Nancy, you’re a wonderful woman.

Remaining a keen fan of his early heart achingly, exquisitely painful but beautiful early music, I would have preferred far more info about the early experiences & creative colleagues & processes. I've no doubt much of the abuse to himself and others rings true but there are too many eventual justifications & consistent clarity of redeeming memories to make it a completely informed read & often implausible amid such mayhem, regardless of how much corroboration has been sought.I now understand why when I saw him in 1981 at Wembley, London, in a package show he was so far down the billing & frankly surprisingly poor. This is more a book about the sad negative effects of stardom, easy come, easy go money & near endless intoxicants which could send many of us off the rails & probably kill us. It's probably unreasonable to expect someone who had such an unusual level of talent to also be level headed.

90% of the book think is an honest account. Some parts of the final chapters seem far fetched.In one instance he says he did not wreck the home he and Tammy lived in stating he wouldn't do that and yet he openly says he destroyed a home he lived in with Nancy under similar circumstances. I was left wondering whether it was a totally honest recollection or some of it lessened, particularly in connection with his marriage to Tammy.Overall however I think you get a sense of what George Jones was about and a lot of it was not very nice, although age seemed to mellow him to the point he could write about his past, bad as well as good.

I would not call this a page turner or book of the year. I thought it could of had more detail or been shorter as there is a lot of the same ol story (you get the meat but no gravy) .I do not think I learned much about George from it..Oh he likes a drink

Laughably bad. Self pitying, ridiculously exaggerated and poorly written. Actually got annoyed at some parts that are just blatant nonsense (check out the Belfast fable for instance). Another celeb who has lost touch with reality, and believes their own publicity.

Loved the book