When Johnny Cash was asked who his favorite country singer was, he would often reply, “You mean, besides George Jones?” Another renowned country artist, Merle Haggard, called Jones’s voice “one of the greatest instruments ever made,” comparing it to a Stradivarius violin. Jones became a living legend in his own lifetime. But as Tyler Mahan Coe highlights in Cocaine and Rhinestones: A History of George Jones and Tammy Wynette, Jones would become well known for the turbulent life that he lived off stage.