George Jones - Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes

George Jones is 79 today. Check out this classic 1985 video for Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes? Apart from Willie, Merle and Jerry Lee I think all the others in it are dead. How the hell are the Killer, the Possum and the Red Headed Stranger still alive. Obviously the other guys didn't abuse themselves enough!

There's a few lumps in the throat moments in the video, like the clip of Jerry lee pounding the keys and a lovely smile from Marty Robbins. When it flashes to Johnny Cash the hair's on my neck stood up - what presence the man had.

Anyway, happy birthday George, take a ride into town and have a beer. There must be some gas in the lawn mower!

Art Meripol's concert photos

Art Meripol is a photographer from the southern states of the USA. Whilst looking for a photo of Billy Lee Riley I came across a website chockful of his great photos.

His website has an amazing array of on-stage photos from the 70's to the 90's, featuring a range of artists from Bruce Springsteen to Waylon Jennings. There's some wonderful photos of Jerry lee in a cowboy hat from 1981 and some beauties of BB King. You also get Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Bo Diddley....



If the link below doesn't work, just copy and paste it - you won't regret it.

http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=641943