George Jones - 40 Years of Duets (2007)

Along with Willie Nelson and Kenny Rogers, George Jones has recorded a myriad amount of duets throughout his long career in country music. For this compilation, Time/Life and Sony gathered 20 of the best beginning in the early to mid-'60s with Virginia Spurlock, Margie Singleton and Gene Pitney, through the '70s with ex-wife Tammy Wynette, (excluding "One," which is from their 1995 reunion album), and several Top Ten's from the '80s including "Yesterday's Wine" with Merle Haggard and "We Didn't See a Thing" with Ray Charles and Chet Atkins. These are the original recordings drawing from Jones' tenure on United Artists, Mercury, Musicor, Epic and MCA. While the material is spread out evenly in decades and in chronological order, the one complaint with 40 Years of Duets is that there is too much great music missing; this could have easily been a two-disc set!