B-side "Crawdad Song" Genre Country Label Epic | Released 1974 (1974) Length 2:26 Writer(s) Bobby Braddock | |
"(We're Not) The Jet Set" is a song recorded by country music duo George Jones and Tammy Wynette. It was written by country songwriter Bobby Braddock.
Background
The song is a humorous celebration of country roots. It begins with European instrumentation and the misleading opening lines:
Epic released the song as a single in 1974 and it climbed to #15 on the Billboard country charts. In July 2013 Uncut singled out the performance as a "grand romance." John Prine covered the song with Iris Dement and it became the opening track on his 1999 LP In Spite of Ourselves.
References
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