Together Again (George Jones and Tammy Wynette album)

Together Again is an album by country music artists George Jones and Tammy Wynette, released in 1980 on the Epic Records label. It was their first album since their 1976 hit album Golden Ring; their next album would not come until 1995 with One.

Background

Jones and Wynette had divorced in 1975 but they had enjoyed their biggest chart success from that point on, with their 1976 LP Golden Ring hitting number one and spawning two chart topping singles, "Golden Ring" and "Near You". In 1977 they had another top five hit with "Southern California". Their periodic appearances together only fueled speculation among their fans that they might get back together romantically, although this cooled somewhat when Wynette married songwriter George Richey in 1978 and Jones spiraled into an abyss of alcohol and drugs, often disappearing for weeks on end. The couple could still be civil, however, with Wynette contributing to Jones 1979 duet album My Very Special Guests. After Jones's career was resuscitated by the massive success of "He Stopped Loving Her Today" in 1980, some kind of album seemed likely. In September, Together Again was released and produced the hit single "Two Story House", which peaked at number 2 on the charts. The song details how a poor married couple finally obtain all the riches they had dreamed of only to find that their love has died. The duo's harmonies were as shimmering as ever but the LP only reached number 26 on the Billboard country album charts. A second single, "A Pair of Old Sneakers", barely cracked the top twenty. One song, "Love in the Meantime", sounded more like a solo spot for Tammy than a duet, with George only singing harmony on the choruses. Producer Billy Sherrill gave an extremely contemporary edge (for the time) to several of the songs, especially the album's closing track "Night Spell". "We'll Talk About It Later" was written by Wynette, who also had a hand in writing "Two Story House".

Reception

While "Two Story House" was riding high on the charts, Jones and Wynette made a disastrous appearance on The Tonight Show to promote it. In his book George Jones: The Life and Times of a Honky Tonk Legend, Bob Allen recounts the episode: "George showed up with an ill-suited "uptown" hairdo that had been slapped on him at the last minute by an image consultant, and which made him look like something off the set of Night of the Living Dead...Before the two of them were even halfway through the song, George stopped suddenly, without warning, and confessed sheepishly to the vast live TV audience that he'd forgotten the words. The cameras panned briskly away. The programmers broke for a dog-food commercial, and the Possum was seen no more that night."

Jones himself hated having to work with Wynette so soon after their marriage had failed. "That wasn't my idea," Jones later insisted in his 1996 autobiography. "In fact, I hated to work with her. It brought back too many unpleasant memories, and when some fans saw us together, they got it in their heads that we were going to get back together romantically." It would be over a decade more before Jones was comfortable around Wynette again.

AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine retrospectively concedes that Together Again "doesn't have the spark of some of their earlier duets" but both of the singers "sound terrific...Even when the material isn't up to their talents, the duo sounds recharged, which makes Together Again a thoroughly enjoyable, if inconsistent, listen."

Professional ratings
Review scores
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Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)
1.	"A Pair of Old Sneakers"	Glenn Sutton, Larry Kingston
2.	"Right in the Wrong Direction"	James Taylor, R. J. Jones
3.	"I Just Started Livin' Today"	Taylor, Jones
4.	"Love in the Meantime"	Taylor
5.	"We Could"	Freddie Hart, Felice Bryant
6.	"Two Story House"	Tammy Wynette, David Lindsay, Glenn Tubb
7.	"If We Don't Make It"	Pat Rickey
8.	"It's Not My Fault"	Bobby Braddock
9.	"We'll Talk About It Later"	Tammy Wynette
10.	"Night Spell"	Dobie Gray, Troy Seals, Eddie Setser

Chart performance

Album

Chart (1980)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	26

Singles

Year	Single	Peak chart positions
Year	Single	US Country	CAN Country
1980	"Two Story House"	2	1
1980	"A Pair of Old Sneakers"	19	59

External links

George Jones

Studio albums	Grand Ole Opry's New Star (1956) Hillbilly Hit Parade Long Live King George Country Church Time White Lightning and Other Favorites George Jones Salutes Hank Williams Sings Country and Western Hits Sings from the Heart George Jones Sings Bob Wills Homecoming in Heaven My Favorites of Hank Williams I Wish Tonight Would Never End Blue & Lonesome George Jones Sings Like the Dickens! Mr. Country & Western Music New Country Hits Old Brush Arbors Country Heart Love Bug I'm a People We Found Heaven Right Here on Earth at "4033" Walk Through This World with Me Sings the Songs of Dallas Frazier If My Heart Had Windows I'll Share My World with You Where Grass Won't Grow Will You Visit Me on Sunday? George Jones with Love George Jones Sings the Great Songs of Leon Payne George Jones (We Can Make It) A Picture of Me (Without You) Nothing Ever Hurt Me (Half as Bad as Losing You) In a Gospel Way The Grand Tour Memories of Us The Battle Alone Again I Wanta Sing Bartender's Blues I Am What I Am Still the Same Ole Me Shine On Jones Country You've Still Got a Place in My Heart Ladies' Choice Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes Wine Colored Roses Too Wild Too Long One Woman Man You Oughta Be Here with Me And Along Came Jones Walls Can Fall High-Tech Redneck I Lived to Tell It All It Don't Get Any Better Than This Cold Hard Truth The Rock: Stone Cold Country 2001 The Gospel Collection Hits I Missed...And One I Didn't

Collaborative albums	What's in Our Hearts A King & Two Queens Bluegrass Hootenanny Famous Country Duets George Jones and Gene Pitney: For the First Time! Two Great Singers George Jones and Gene Pitney (Recorded in Nashville!) It's Country Time Again! We Go Together Me and the First Lady We Love to Sing About Jesus Let's Build a World Together We're Gonna Hold On George & Tammy & Tina Golden Ring My Very Special Guests Double Trouble Together Again A Taste of Yesterday's Wine Friends in High Places The Bradley Barn Sessions George and Tammy Super Hits One God's Country: George Jones and Friends Kickin' Out the Footlights...Again Burn Your Playhouse Down – The Unreleased Duets

Compilations	Hits by George Anniversary – 10 Years of Hits By Request First Time Live Super Hits Super Hits, Volume 2 16 Biggest Hits Live with the Possum 50 Years of Hits

Related articles	Albums discography Singles discography Discography with Tammy Wynette Awards

Tammy Wynette

Studio albums	Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad Take Me to Your World / I Don't Wanna Play House D-I-V-O-R-C-E Higher Ground Next to You Heart Over Mind

Collaboration albums	We Go Together Me and the First Lady We Love to Sing About Jesus Let's Build a World Together We're Gonna Hold On George & Tammy & Tina Golden Ring Together Again Honky Tonk Angels George and Tammy Super Hits One

Singles	"I Don't Wanna Play House" "Take Me to Your World" "D-I-V-O-R-C-E" "Stand by Your Man" "Singing My Song" "The Ways to Love a Man" "He Loves Me All the Way" "Run, Woman, Run" "We Sure Can Love Each Other" "Good Lovin' (Makes It Right)" "Bedtime Story" "Reach Out Your Hand (And Touch Somebody)" "My Man (Understands)" "'Til I Get It Right" "Kids Say the Darndest Things" "Another Lonely Song" "Woman to Woman" "'Til I Can Make It on My Own" "You and Me" "Womanhood" "Crying in the Rain" "Sometimes When We Touch"

Collaboration singles	"My Elusive Dreams" "We're Gonna Hold On" "Golden Ring" "Near You" "Two Story House" "Silver Threads and Golden Needles" "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels"

Related articles	Discography Discography with George Jones "Justified & Ancient"

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