{"id":20343,"date":"2013-05-10T18:00:58","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T18:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=20343"},"modified":"2013-05-10T18:00:58","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T18:00:58","slug":"watch-allan-perform-at-georges-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2013\/05\/10\/watch-allan-perform-at-georges-funeral\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Allan Perform At George&#8217;s Funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6627\" alt=\"alanjackson01\" src=\"http:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/07\/alanjackson011.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/alanjackson011.jpg 600w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/alanjackson011-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Watch Alan Jackson Perform <\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>\u2018He Stopped Loving Her Today\u2019 at George Jones\u2019 Funeral<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div><a title=\"Sterling Whitaker\" href=\"http:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/author\/sterlingwit\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net\/80450F\/tasteofcountry.com\/files\/2012\/11\/SterlingGuitar.jpg?w=40&amp;h=40&amp;zc=1&amp;s=0&amp;a=t&amp;q=89\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 By <a title=\"Sterling Whitaker\" href=\"http:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/author\/sterlingwit\/\">Sterling Whitaker<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 May 9, 2013 6:00 PM<\/div>\n<p>Country superstar <a href=\"http:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/tags\/alan-jackson\/\">Alan Jackson<\/a> closed out <a href=\"http:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/tags\/george-jones\/\">George Jones<\/a>\u2018 <a href=\"http:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/george-jones-funeral-nashville\/\">funeral service<\/a> in Nashville last Thursday with a fitting version of \u2018He Stopped Loving Her Today.\u2019 Now, the Grand Ole Opry has placed the video online for fans to enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>Jones passed away on April 26, 2013. He and Jackson had known each other for a quarter of a century, with Jackson making a guest appearance on Jones\u2019 \u2018The Bradley Barn Sessions\u2019 in 1994 singing \u2018A Good Year for the Roses.\u2019 At the 1999 CMA Awards Jackson interrupted his own scheduled performance to sing part of \u2018Choices,\u2019 a song the CMA had denied Jones the opportunity to perform in full during the broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>He delivered \u2018He Stopped Loving Her Today\u2019 at Jones\u2019 service as part homage and part musical tribute, mimicking the icon\u2019s unique signature vocal delivery in places in an emotionally wrenching performance that fittingly brought the house down.<\/p>\n<p id=\"FALINK_3_0_2\">\u201cWell, heaven better get ready for some great country music,\u201d Jackson told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2013\/04\/26\/george-jones-country-music-dead-at-81\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TMZ<\/a> after Jones\u2019 passing. \u201cOf course, he will always be the greatest singer and interpreter of real country music \u2014 there\u2019ll never be another.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GbjpbqowX3Y?rel=0]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch Alan Jackson Perform \u2018He Stopped Loving Her Today\u2019 at George Jones\u2019 Funeral \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 By Sterling Whitaker\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 May 9, 2013 6:00 PM Country superstar Alan Jackson closed out George Jones\u2018 funeral service in Nashville last Thursday with a fitting version of \u2018He Stopped Loving Her Today.\u2019 Now, the Grand Ole Opry has placed the video online for fans to enjoy. Jones passed away on April 26, 2013. He and Jackson had known each other for a quarter of a century, with Jackson making a guest appearance on Jones\u2019 \u2018The Bradley<a href=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2013\/05\/10\/watch-allan-perform-at-georges-funeral\/\" class=\"read-more\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}