Fans of late country legend George Jones will soon be able to toast the singer’s legacy with his own brand of moonshine.
The musician’s widow, Nancy Jones, unveiled plans to enter the booze business on Monday after revealing a Nashville, Tennessee museum dedicated to her husband would open on April 24, two days before the second anniversary of his death.
The white whiskey brand, a collaboration with brewers at a Kentucky distillery, will be named White Lightning Moonshine to commemorate his first big hit, 1959’s White Lightning. It will feature a picture of Jones on the bottle.
Nancy says, “The picture we’re using on the label we call ‘the bad(expletive) picture’. He loved that picture and I do too. Putting it on the bottle just makes it perfect.”
She admits the crooner often considered the idea of launching his own booze, adding, “He’d say the alcohol controlled him all his life, and now he’s controlling it.”
Jones died in 2013.
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