Ragged But Right : The Life and Times of George Jones

By Dolly Carlisle

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809249944
• ISBN13: 9780809249947
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Contemporary Books, Incorporated
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

a better biography...but still tabloid heavy

this was the second of two books about George Jones in 1984. Dolly Carlisle wrote this one. The book reads like a story with hardly any added comments and opinions. There might be a few comments here and there but nothing like Bob Allen's book! Carlisle seemed to focus on the "human" and emotional side of George instead of taking the easy route with one drinking and drug story right after another that seemed to grow in Allen's book. The "bad days" as George calls them are also in Carlisle's book...but presented less gossipy and more sensational, meaning that the stories are more believable coming from her because of her professionalism in talking about them but they still carry a tabloid feel all the same...if that makes sense! Epic and George apparently had no major problems with this book because Carlisle wrote the liner notes for George's 1984 album "You've Still Got a Place in My Heart", something i don't think would've ever happened had the people been angry with her. Years later, when his own auto-biography came out, George commented that the two books that had been written on him were mostly half-truths but he DID make quiet reference that this book was more closer to the truth than the other one.