Artist: Bobby Braddock
Author: Bobby Braddock/Curly Putman
Label: Hal Leonard
Year: 1978
Demo on bonus cd with Michael Kosser's book How Nashville Became Music City USA. He Stopped Loving Her Today gave its title to a book by Jack Isenhour all about this very song.
Covers:
George Jones [his first n°1 C&W in six years time; it took him 18 months to nail the song, all due to his legendary drinking problem; friends trying to hold him straight up behind the microphone; producer Billy Sherrill ordered the song to be re-written three times; in the final version the hard-hearted ex showed up for the funeral]
Alan Jackson [at George Jones' funeral, triggering a re-charted re-issue of Jones' version]
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