On June 3, 2025, a bronze statue of George Jones was unveiled outside Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. Nancy personally chose a moment from his early sixties—clad in a Nudie suit and cradling his own guitar—to be immortalized in bronze, believing this was the image George “wanted to be remembered by most,” after he’d conquered his addiction and thrown himself wholeheartedly into his music. In the words of his own classic “Same Ole Me,” it’s a tribute to the man who, through every high and low, stayed true to himself.
Introduction: “Same Ole Me” was recorded in April 1981 at Nashville’s Columbia Studio, during sessions for Jones’s Still the Same Ole…