My Very Special Guests [SEP] record label
My Very Special Guests
My Very Special Guests is a duet album by American country music artist George Jones released in 1979 on the Epic Records label.
Background.
By the late 1970s, Jones was in such bad shape from his drinking and cocaine addiction that it took him the better part of two years to complete "My Very Special Guests", a 1979 duet album that featured the wayward singer performing songs with a wide range of admirers and peers, including Emmylou Harris, Waylon Jennings, Linda Ronstadt, and
would go on to record with Jones several more times, had written the original liner notes for the singer's 1976 album "The Battle", proclaiming that "when you hear George Jones sing, you are hearing a man who takes a song and makes it a work of art - always"). The Staples Singers and Dennis Locorriere and Ray Sawyer of the rock band Dr. Hook are also featured, but the most curious vocal pairing on "My Very Special Guests" came with then current New Wave star Elvis Costello