Raven presents the most comprehensive CD collection of GEORGE JONES from the 1970s – Step Right Up: 1970-1979 A Critical Anthology. With 78 minutes of superb quality audio and informative liner notes, this is an essential chapter from the artist’s acclaimed body of astonishing work. Allmusic Guide calls Jones “the finest vocalist in the recorded history of Country music” and he remains among the half dozen greatest popular song stylists of all time. Step Right Up boasts 10 US Country Top 10 hits (including two #1 smashes), five more Top 30 charting singles plus 13 key album tracks – 28 tracks in all! It captures the moment when he made the transition from honky-tonk journeyman to country music icon and household name. Beginning with his last years at Musicor and documenting the maturation of his affecting, nuanced ballad style when he was recording for Epic under the watchful eye of master producer Billy Sherrill, this multi-label compilation features the songs and performances on which his legendary status rests. All his greatest songs from the 1970s are here: ‘A Good Year for the Roses’, ‘Tell Me My Lying Eyes are Wrong’, ‘The Grand Tour’, ‘The Battle’, ‘A Drunk Can’t be a Man’, ‘Bartender’s Blues’ (with James Taylor), ‘The Door’ and 20 more classic performances. Step Right Up is the companion CD to Raven’s Dispatches: 1990-1999 A Critical Collection (RVCD199).