Where Grass Won't Grow | |
Type: | single |
Artist: | George Jones |
Album: | Where Grass Won't Grow |
B-Side: | Shoulder to Shoulder |
Released: | 1970 |
Recorded: | 1969 |
Genre: | Country |
Length: | 3:18 |
Label: | Musicor |
Producer: | Pappy Daily |
Prev Title: | She's Mine |
Prev Year: | 1969 |
Next Title: | Tell Me My Lying Eyes Are Wrong |
Next Year: | 1970 |
"Where Grass Won't Grow" is a song by American country music singer George Jones. It was written by Earl "Peanut" Montgomery, one of Jones' favorite songwriters, and tells the story of the hardships faced by a family living on a twelve-acre farm in south Tennessee. The song features a gentle mandolin and three modulations that build to a redemptive closing but, despite a moving vocal from Jones, the single, released on Musicor in 1970, stalled at #28 on the Billboard country singles chart. He would record it again in 1994 with Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton, and Trisha Yearwood for the Bradley Barn Sessions.