Tommy Tomlinson asks: "What if you could find a real story as good as the song playing in your head?" On Nieman Storyboard, Tomlinson conducts a line-by-line analysis of what he calls the best George Jones song, "The Grand Tour," picking out elements of detail and other literary devices. "The songwriters — Norro Wilson, George Richey and Carmol Taylor — take you through the home of a destroyed relationship, guided by the man who now lives there alone."
