Friends in High Places | |
Type: | Studio album |
Artist: | George Jones |
Cover: | FriendsinHighPlaces.jpg |
Released: | March 12, 1991 |
Genre: | Country |
Length: | 27:52 |
Label: | Epic |
Producer: | Billy Sherrill |
Prev Title: | You Oughta Be Here with Me |
Prev Year: | 1990 |
Next Title: | And Along Came Jones |
Next Year: | 1991 |
Friends in High Places is an album of duets by the American country music artist George Jones, released in 1991.[1] [2] It was Jones's final studio album for Epic Records.[3]
The album peaked at No. 72 on Billboards Top Country Albums chart.[4] "A Few Ole Country Boys", a duet with Randy Travis, was a country music hit.[5]
The album was produced by Billy Sherrill. Its title was inspired by the hit single by Garth Brooks, "Friends in Low Places".[6]
The Calgary Herald noted that Jones "simply overwhelms bland singers, like Ricky Van Shelton, or forces them to become shrill, like Shelby Lynne." The Dallas Morning News wrote that most of the tracks "are overproduced throwaways in which the singers' interplay is so perfunctory that George might as well be faxing in his harmonies."[7]