| Just One More | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | George Jones |
| Album: | 14 Top Country Favorites |
| B-Side: | Gonna Come Get You |
| Released: | October 4, 1956 |
| Recorded: | September 1956 |
| Studio: | Gold Star (Houston, Texas) |
| Genre: | Country |
| Length: | 2:42 |
| Label: | Starday |
| Producer: | Pappy Daily |
| Prev Title: | Boat of Life |
| Prev Year: | 1956 |
| Next Title: | Don't Stop the Music |
| Next Year: | 1956 |
"Just One More" is a 1956 country music song by American artist George Jones. It was released as a single on Starday Records in 1956 reached #3 on the Billboard country singles chart. The song is often featured on his early compilation albums and was one of the most successful of his self-penned songs.
"Just One More" is one of the earliest examples of the "hard" drinking songs for which Jones would become famous. The song describes a lonely, self-pitying man who is drinking to forget his worries:
Although he would adopt a more nuanced, quieter vocal approach in the next decade, Jones' performance on "Just One More" displays his incredible vocal range and power and sounds very much like a composition his hero Hank Williams could have sung. The slow honky-tonk beat is accompanied by a fiddle and steel guitar throughout. Like Williams, Jones had already been tagged as a problem drinker very early on in his career. In the liner notes to the 1994 Mercury retrospective Cup of Loneliness: The Classic Mercury Years, Colin Escott quotes the singer from an interview with John Dew: "[In] the dives and honky tonks the drunks were always blowing foul breath in my face, and the smell of whiskey was enough to knock you down if you hadn't had a few yourself. Drinking gives me courage. I'm easily depressed. I can feel it creeping up, and the best way to simmer down is with a drink."
Ernest Tubb covered the tune in 1956. In 1960 Johnny Cash recorded the song for his LP Now, There Was a Song!