We Can Make It (George Jones song)

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1971 single by George Jones

"We Can Make It"

Single by George Jones
from the album  George Jones (We Can Make It)
B-side| "One of These Days"
Released| 1971
Recorded| 1971
Genre| Country
Length| 2:02
Label| Epic
Songwriter(s)| Glenn Sutton, Billy Sherrill
Producer(s)| Billy Sherrill
George Jones singles chronology
| "I'll Follow You (Up to Our Cloud)"
(1971)  | "We Can Make It"
(1971)  | "Loving You Could Never Be Better"
(1972)

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"We Can Make It" is a song by George Jones. It was his first solo single with Epic Records in 1972 after leaving Musicor.

## Background[edit]

"We Can Make It" was written by Glenn Sutton and Jones' new producer Billy Sherrill. In the liner notes to the 1982 compilation Anniversary - 10 Years of Hits, Sherrill admits that they composed it with Jones's recent marriage to Tammy Wynette specifically in mind, providing the singer with a song that seemed to be speaking to his wife. Both Jones and Sherrill admitted in the 1990 Jones documentary Same Ole Me, they were both extremely nervous, with the latter commenting, "I was scared to death. I was scared of him - he said he was scared of me." Sherrill added that one modification he did make to Jones's style was having him sing in lower keys because he found the vocals on his early records "really, really high, and kind of annoying, to me." "We Can Make It," which made it to #6 on the charts, contained all the hallmarks of the Sherrill sound, including an ascending introduction and his countrypolitan "wall of sound," something Jones was not altogether comfortable with; in 2006 he recalled to Billboard, "He just came up with that sound like he got with Tammy, (singing) "Ba bum ba bum ba bum," build-ups...He tried to do that with me, but I finally had a talk with him. I said, 'Billy, I'm country, I'm traditional, I know you're wanting to cross over with me like you have with Tammy, Charlie Rich and those people, but I'm hardcore and I can't help it. That's what I feel, and I can't do a good job for the label, you or anybody else if I don't feel it myself.'"

## Discography[edit]

Further information: George Jones albums discography and George Jones and Tammy Wynette discography

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George Jones

* Albums
* Singles
* Discography with Tammy Wynette
* Awards

Solo studio albums|

* Grand Ole Opry's New Star
* Country Church Time
* White Lightning and Other Favorites
* George Jones Salutes Hank Williams
* George Jones Sings Country and Western Hits
* George Jones Sings from the Heart
* George Jones Sings Bob Wills
* Homecoming in Heaven
* My Favorites of Hank Williams
* I Wish Tonight Would Never End
* George Jones Sings Like the Dickens!
* I Get Lonely in a Hurry
* The Race Is On
* Mr. Country & Western Music
* New Country Hits
* Old Brush Arbors
* Trouble in Mind
* Country Heart
* Love Bug
* I'm a People
* We Found Heaven Right Here on Earth at "4033"
* Walk Through This World with Me
* George Jones Sings the Songs of Dallas Frazier
* The George Jones Story
* My Country
* If My Heart Had Windows
* I'll Share My World with You
* Where Grass Won't Grow
* Will You Visit Me on Sunday
* George Jones with Love
* George Jones Sings the Great Songs of Leon Payne
* George Jones (We Can Make It)
* A Picture of Me (Without You)
* Nothing Ever Hurt Me (Half as Bad as Losing You)
* In a Gospel Way
* The Grand Tour
* Memories of Us
* The Battle
* Alone Again
* I Wanta Sing
* Bartender's Blues
* My Very Special Guests
* I Am What I Am
* Still the Same Ole Me
* Shine On
* Jones Country
* You've Still Got a Place in My Heart
* Ladies' Choice
* Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes
* Wine Colored Roses
* Too Wild Too Long
* One Woman Man
* You Oughta Be Here with Me
* And Along Came Jones
* Walls Can Fall
* High-Tech Redneck
* The Bradley Barn Sessions
* I Lived to Tell It All
* It Don't Get Any Better Than This
* Cold Hard Truth
* The Rock: Stone Cold Country 2001
* The Gospel Collection
* Hits I Missed...And One I Didn't
* Burn Your Playhouse Down – The Unreleased Duets

Collaborative studio albums|

* What's in Our Heart (with Melba Montgomery)
* Close Together (As You and Me) (with Melba Montgomery)
* Bluegrass Hootenanny (with Melba Montgomery)
* George Jones & Gene Pitney – For the First Time! Two Great Stars
* George Jones & Gene Pitney – Recorded in Nashville, Tennessee! (with Gene Pitney)
* It's Country Time Again! (with Gene Pitney)
* Double Trouble (with Johnny Paycheck)
* A Taste of Yesterday's Wine (with Merle Haggard)
* Kickin' Out the Footlights...Again (with Merle Haggard)
* George Jones & The Smoky Mountain Boys

Compilation albums|

* Hillbilly Hit Parade
* George Jones Singing 14 Top Country Song Favorites
* George Jones Sings His Greatest Hits
* The Fabulous Country Music Sound of George Jones
* Long Live King George
* The Crown Prince of Country Music
* A King & Two Queens (with Judy Lynn and Melba Montgomery)
* Blue & Lonesome
* Heartaches & Tears
* Famous Country Duets
* Hits by George
* The Best of George Jones
* All-Time Greatest Hits, Vol. 1
* Encore
* Anniversary – 10 Years of Hits
* By Request
* Super Hits
* Friends in High Places
* Super Hits, Volume 2
* 16 Biggest Hits
* 50 Years of Hits
* God's Country: George Jones and Friends

Live albums|

* First Time Live
* Live at Dancetown U.S.A.
* Live with the Possum

Related artists|

* Merle Haggard
* Melba Montgomery
* Johnny Paycheck
* Gene Pitney
* Margie Singleton
* Tammy Wynette

Related articles|

* George & Tammy

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