George Jones

For more than five decades, Jones was an essential part of country music -- and even now, after his death, he remains an important piece of the genre.

The producer, songwriter and former member of Jones' band claims he owns the rights to 'George Jones & the Smoky Mountain Boys'.

The Boot counts down our picks for the Top 10 country songs about death.

The Boot rounds up a list of 50 country, Americana, alt-country, bluegrass and folk songs that everyone should hear at least once in their lifetime.

The George Jones Museum in Nashville is getting a new owner, but its honorable reflection of the legendary country singer remains intact.

At least one of these separations has a happy ending!

Folks in country music like to play nice with each other. But there are times when, as Waylon Jennings once sang, something's got 'em "feudin' like the Hatfields and McCoys."

Mark Chesnutt is one of country music's most staunch traditionalists, but he looks back with regret on one career misstep that was so out of character, it actually made George Jones angry at him.

On July 5, 1980, Jones earned a No. 1 hit with "He Stopped Loving Her Today."

On April 6, 2013, Jones performed his final show, in Knoxville, Tenn.