Country Music Star Georgette Jones Signs Management Deal With Gerald Murray Music
PLA Media Also Adds Georgette Jones to its Award-Winning Roster
Country music singer, author, and actress Georgette Jones has signed an artist management deal with Gerald Murray Music. Georgette Jones is the daughter of country music legends and Hall of Fame couple, George Jones and Tammy Wynette.
“I’m thrilled to work with Gerald for many reasons, but I have no doubts that Gerald is a man of his word and the hardest-working person I know,” said Jones. “I’m looking forward to a long and great future ahead of us.”
The new management deal comes on the heels of Jones having worked for several years with veteran music artist manager and owner of Gerald Murray Music, Dr. Gerald Murray on her booking schedule.
“I have had the pleasure of knowing Georgette personally and working with her as an agent,” said Murray. “I am extremely proud she has chosen us to help further her career endeavors and to work with her on future projects in a management capacity. She is a sincere and beautiful person and an amazingly talented artist. In the plans are new music and tour dates. Beyond the legacy left by her parents, Georgette has created and continues to grow her own remarkable legacy through music and other artistic endeavors. It is truly an honor for me as a manager to represent a highly regarded artist such as Georgette Jones and to be part of her career administration and her team.”
In addition, PLA Media is proud to announce that she is joining their burgeoning roster as she embarks on this next chapter under the direction of Gerald Murray.
“I have known Georgette for many years and encouraged her personal growth and developing music career. I am delighted to see her blossom and PLA is looking forward to helping her on the journey,” says PLA Media President/CEO Pamela L. Lewis FRSA.
About Georgette Jones
Known as “Country Music’s First Princess,” the second-generation country music artist performed Daddy Come Home, a duet she had recorded with her father when she was 10 years old, on the 1981 HBO program “George Jones with a Little Help from His Friends.” George and Georgette also performed You and Me and Time on the last George Jones album before his death, “Burn Your Playhouse Down: The Unreleased Duets” (2008). A year after Tammy Wynette’s death, Georgette paid tribute to her mother on Mother’s Day 1999 with the song I Hope You Knew. Georgette has carved out a performance career that includes dates at the Grand Ole Opry House and at the iconic Ryman Auditorium.
In addition to singing and songwriting, she is also an author. She wrote the highly acclaimed biographical book, The Three of Us: Growing Up with Tammy and George. The book reflects on life with her famous parents. Jones’ book also provides us with an inside glimpse at the workings of the country music industry. She considers her own life of incorrect turns while looking for true love, her need for a home life, growing as a person, and continuing in the family musical tradition.
Georgette was a featured artist in Episode 2 of Jills Veranda Nashville, a Swedish Television/Warner Brothers International Television production hosted by Jill Johnson, Sweden’s Queen of Country Music. The show is streamed on Sveriges Television AB – SVTPLAY.
In the 2022 Showtime original series about her parents, George & Tammy, Jones is given writing credit for two episodes and is given creative control over how stories about her parents’ often-tragic lives in Nashville are retold. She also appeared as a backup singer in the final episode of the series. The show is in large part derived from Jones’ book. The limited series stars Oscar and Golden Globe winner Jessica Chastain and Oscar and Golden Globe nominee Michael Shannon.
Additional on screen credits include appearances with Leslie Jordan and Olivia Newton-John in five episodes of the 2008 television series Sordid Lives as her mother Tammy Wynette. Jones sang on the soundtrack for the program as well.
As a solo artist, Jones has recorded five albums: “Slightly Used Woman” (2010), “Strong Enough to Cry” (2011), “’Till I Can Make It On My Own” (2013), “This Is Christmas” (2013), and “Skin” (2019), as well as the duet with her father, You and Me and Time. She has also collaborated with other artists, including a duet with Billy Yates, Golden Ring, a duet with Mark McGuinn, Better a Painful Ending, which appears on McGuinn’s album “One Man’s Crazy” (2015), and I Know What You Did Last Night feat. Vince Gill (2019).
Georgette has been enjoying her love of gaming and working toward bringing country music into the gaming space. Since childhood, she has enjoyed gaming. Gaming with others online presents the opportunity for her to connect directly with fans and grow her fan base.
For more information on Georgette Jones, visit the following:
Website: www.georgettejones.net
Facebook: georgettejonesmusic
Instagram: @georgettejoneslennon
TikTok: @georgettejonesmusic
Twitter: @georgette_jones
YouTube: @georgettejones
Spotify / Apple Music / Pandora
Georgette has a long-standing connection with Dr. Gerald Murray. In the early 1980s, Murray conducted her father George Jones’s personal management, concert concessions, and the business affairs of George Jones Enterprises. While riding high on the success of radio airplay, sellout concerts, awards, and record sales, Jones and Murray each received a prestigious Gold Record plaque from CBS Records and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for the George Jones album, “I Am What I Am.” During Murray’s first year as Jones’ personal talent manager, Jones won two Country Music Association (CMA) awards: “Male Vocalist of the Year” and “Song of the Year” for He Stopped Loving Her Today. Jones also received two Music City News Awards for “Male Vocalist of the Year” and “Single of the Year” for He Stopped Loving Her Today. Jones earned the 1980 GRAMMY Award for “Best Male Country Vocal Performance” for He Stopped Loving Her Today.
Since 1979, Murray has been professionally involved in the country music business at many levels, from merchandise promoter to business agent, and has had the opportunity to be the personal talent manager for other country and gospel music recording artists and celebrities over the course of his career. George Jones, Vern Gosdin, Doug Stone, Stella Parton, and Paulette Carlson are some of the artists whose careers Dr. Murray has managed.
The teams of Jones and Murray will collaborate to increase Georgette’s international creative successes and fan base.
Among Murray’s team is career music executive Tom Long. Long is a consultant to Gerald Murray Music. Long is a very successful music executive who has been involved in many Billboard chart-topping songs. He worked for major companies such as Tree Publishing, ASCAP, Sony ATV, and ran Anne Murray’s publishing company, Balmur Entertainment, during his 30-year career in Nashville. Long signed over 800 songwriters while working for ASCAP, discovered the famous band, Kentucky Headhunters, managed the band in their early years, and was instrumental in securing their first record deal with Polygram. Long helped Brad Paisley, Blake Shelton, Doug Supernaw, Mark Collie, and John Berry, among many others along their musical career paths.
Georgette Jones is currently touring across the USA, Canada, and overseas, and joins a growing Gerald Murray Music roster that includes Billy Dean, Mandy Barnett, Cledus T. Judd, Shenandoah, T. Graham Brown, Lacy J. Dalton, Bryan White, Gary Brewer & The Kentucky Ramblers, Buddy Jewell, and Jeannie Kendall.