ERIC MICHAEL HAWKS

The Possum: September 12 1931-April 26 2013

The Rolls-Royce of Country Music

JP Richardson AKA The Big Bopper of Chantilly Lace fame wrote White Lightning

George with Pappy Daily

From George Jones to Shania Twain, Pig Robbins was a legendary session musician

Johnny Paycheck

Double Trouble: Jones and Paycheck

On stage

Hank Cochran: One of the heavy songwriters in Nashville

Wilf Carter from Nova Scotia

Roger Miller

Jones, Willie, Paycheck and Roger Miller

Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty

Dolly Parton and Porter Wagoner

Tammy Wynette with George

Tammy in 1977

George, Tammy and daughter Georgette

George and Tammy in the 90s

George Jones and his record producer, Billy Sherrill

With Melba Montgomery

Peanutt Montgomery showing the bullet hole from when George shot at him

With Gene Pitney

Friends forever, with Merle Haggard

DUI

George and Nancy

Nancy is still keeping his memory alive

Liz's Pick was Patsy Cline's Back in baby's arms

Damien Maze from St-Pascal

Naomi Bristow

Stompin Tom Connors

Georgette Jones and myself on stage in my hometown of Clarence Creek, Ontario at the Clarence-Rockland Country Jamboree

Elizabeth giving flowers to Georgette after her performance

Clarence-Rockland Country Jamboree

George Jones Moonshine displayed in my home. Unopened and no longer available

A day of both sadness and joy. This issue had my CD review and my music hero graced the cover

Billy Sherrill's resting place on the Jones plot at Woodlawn Cemetary in Nashville

Johnny Paycheck's grave on the George Jones plot

The Possum's final resting place

Elizabeth paying her respect

Tammy Wynette's resting place at Woodlawn Cemetary, Nashville

With the late Michael Douchette who played steel guitar, harmonica and dobro on my album Whiskey Highway. Michael has played for both George and Tammy in the 70s and 80s. After lunch at the George Jones restaurant we went up to the museum and toured it together along with my dad and my record producer, Dave Bechtal

A true angel, Nancy Jones (Nashville, TN)

I snapped this picture of Stompin Tom Connors at Strait's Bar in Bells Corners Ontario in 1999

A kind word from Georgette Jones