Date 14/04/2015 - News People
Fifty-six years ago today, George Jones landed his first Number One hit with "White Lightning," a revved-up tribute to a vice that would follow him for most of his life: alcohol.
Appropriately, when Jones showed up to Owen Bradley's Quonset Hut Studio to record the song, he was seriously buzzed. It was February 1959, and the man who'd written "White Lightning" ? J.P.
