Old Brush Arbors


Old Brush Arbors is an album by American country music artist George Jones released in 1965 on the Musicor Records label.

Background

Jones's fondness for gospel music is well documented. In the 1989 documentary Same Ole Me, he recalls that he learned how to play the guitar at the church where his mother Clara, a devout woman, played piano. The church was run by Brother Burl Stephens and Sister Annie, who George remembered "taught me my first chords on the guitar, like C, G, and D and things like that, and I started hangin' out over there more often. She'd get her guitar and we'd pick and sing together...We used to do all the really old gospel songs." Jones love of gospel music actually predated his exposure to country music, which he would not hear until his family acquired their first radio. Jones would continue to record gospel albums throughout his career, including In a Gospel Way and The Gospel Collection.
"The Selfishness in Man" had been previously released earlier in 1965 on his album Mr. Country & Western Music.

Track listing

  1. "Old Brush Arbors"
  2. "Will There Be Stars in My Crown?"
  3. "Leaning on the Everlasting Arms"
  4. "Won't It Be Wonderful There?"
  5. "Lord You've Been Mighty Good to Me"
  6. "The Selfishness in Man"
  7. "I'll Fly Away"
  8. "Where We Never Grow Old"
  9. "If You Believe"
  10. "The Lily of the Valley"
  11. "How Beautiful Heaven Must Be"
  12. "Well It's All Right"