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Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes

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Released
  
August 1985

Artist
  
George Jones

Producer
  
Billy Sherrill

Genre
  
Country music

Length
  
29:37

Release date
  
August 1985

Label
  
Epic/Sony Records

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Studio
  
Eleven Eleven Studio, Nashville, Tennessee

Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes (1985)
  
Wine Colored Roses (1986)

Similar
  
George Jones (We Can Mak, Wine Colored Roses, I'll Share My World with You, George Jones with Love, One Woman Man

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Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes is the 45th studio album by American country music artist George Jones, released in 1985 on the Epic Records label.

Contents

The album is best known for the title track and its classic video, which would go on to win the CMA Award for Video of the Year. In the song, Jones sings of the irreplaceability of country music legends, including Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Conway Twitty, Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Charlie Rich, Marty Robbins, Hank Williams and Lefty Frizzell. The music video, which was directed by Marc Ball, takes place at a roadside gas station, where the owner shares with Jones his extensive collection of albums and memorabilia from classic country music artists. It was the singer's first music video and featured him looking healthier than he'd had in years. Jones producer Billy Sherrill appears at the beginning of the video playing the bus driver. At the end of the video, future country star Marty Stuart is one of the two young men in the convertible that pulls up at the gas station as the Jones tour bus pulls away. As Bob Allen writes in his book George Jones: The Life and Times of a Honky Tonk Legend, the song "struck a strong enough chord of empathy with old-time country music lovers to end up number three in Billboard.

The album produced two other hit singles: the concert favorite "The One I Loved Back Then (The Corvette Song)", which also went to number 3, and the down-and-out honky tonk "cheatin and drinkin' song" "Somebody Wants Me Out Of The Way", which peaked at number 9. Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes also features a couple of duets with Lynn Anderson and Lacy J. Dalton.

Jones was promoting the album when he appeared at the inaugural Farm Aid benefit in 1985.

George jones who s gonna fill their shoes


Songs

1Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes3:16
2Just When3:13
3The One I Loved Back Then (The Corvette Song)2:30

References

Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes Wikipedia