Big Bopper may have penned White Lightnin(g), but a song about you old pappy brewing moonshine needed a singer that knew the subject inside and out to deliver it to the world... step forward, George Jones. Only a matter of days before George Jones recorded White Lightnin', was The Day The Music Died, when Big Bopper, Richie Valens and Buddy Holly Perished. Jones and BB were good pals, so the legend that has Jones even more inebriated than usual during the session is quite understandable.

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