{"id":104592,"date":"2025-06-08T07:00:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/?p=104592"},"modified":"2025-06-06T10:58:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T14:58:01","slug":"george-jones-statue-unveiled-in-nashville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/06\/george-jones-statue-unveiled-in-nashville\/","title":{"rendered":"George Jones Statue Unveiled In Nashville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George Jones\u2018 widow, Nancy, helped unveil a statue of the country icon at Nashville\u2019s Ryman Auditorium.<\/p>\n<p>The event was attended by around 100 family, friends, and fans, with the 76-year-old Nancy expressing her joy about the wonderful tribute to her late husband.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI\u2019m just so proud to be here and so happy that this is happening because George would be smiling about it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jones takes his rightful place alongside statues honouring country music legends Charley Pride, Loretta Lynn, Bill Monroe, and Little Jimmy Dickens as part of the Ryman\u2019s outdoor Icon Walk.<\/p>\n<p>The life-size bronze sculpture \u2013 created by Mississippi artist Ben Watts \u2013 captures George in his 60s, reflecting his onstage persona with signature features such as his coiffed hair, snakeskin boots, a bedazzled Nudie suit, along with a custom guitar strap holding a personalized acoustic guitar.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow Opry member Jamey Johnson was also on hand to honour George\u2019s \u201clarger-than-life\u201d career and personality.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DKdkmr_Mv-K\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Jones\u2019 Widow Nancy Unveils Statue Of Country Music Icon In Nashville","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":104594,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[464],"tags":[4114,3432,481,2206,2207,5359],"class_list":["post-104592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-george-jones","tag-jamey-johnson","tag-nashville","tag-ryman","tag-ryman-auditorium","tag-statue"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 01:29:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/06\/george-jones-statue-unveiled-in-nashville\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104593,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104592\/revisions\/104593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}