Bartender's Blues (album)
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| Released | 1978 | |||
| Recorded | October 1977 | |||
| Studio | Columbia (Nashville, Tennessee) | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 28:12 | |||
| Label | Epic KE-35414 | |||
| Producer | Billy Sherrill | |||
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Baretender's Blues is an album by American country music artist George Jones, released in 1978 on the Epic Records label. It was re-released on CD on the Razor & Tie label in 1996.
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| AllMusic |   [1] |
While praising Jones's singing, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic laments the dated production ("soft rock with its electric pianos") but cites the main flaw as "its uneven material. Apart from the excellent weeper 'I'll Just Take It Out in Love,' the strongest song is the title track, which is James Taylor's impression of what life in a honky tonk must be. Despite the occasional weak song, Jones gives it his all throughout the record, which by and large keeps the album entertaining."[1] Writing about the title track in The New Yorker, Ian Crouch asserted, "His rendering of the chorus, with its 'four walls around me to hold my life,' may be the best expression of his incredible vocal gifts—despair and joy fighting out their eternal battle."
