RIP George Jones


Word released this morning that George Jones passed away at 81 after a brief illness.

Here’s the story

 

We have a nice tribute that was sent to us by our friends at “After Midnight with Blair Garner”.   We’ve got it on the Wake Up Q podcast page.

 

Here’s a couple of photos of, what would now be, one of his last performances…at last year’s Grassroots Festival in Trumansburg:

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