My Very Special Guests is a duet album by American country music artist George Jones, released in 1979 by Epic Records.

By the late 1970s, Jones was in such bad shape from his drinking and cocaine addiction that it took him the better part of two years to complete My Very Special Guests, a 1979 duet album that featured the wayward singer performing songs with a wide range of admirers and peers, including Emmylou Harris, Waylon Jennings, Linda Ronstadt, and Elvis Costello.

The ambitious pairings with pop and rock singers may have displeased many hardcore Jones fans but one of the songs, James Taylor's "Bartender's Blues", had been a top ten country hit in 1978.

The Staples Singers and Dennis Locorriere and Ray Sawyer of the rock band Dr. Hook are also featured, but the most curious vocal pairing on My Very Special Guests came with then current New Wave star Elvis Costello.

Costello, an avowed Jones fan, had originally recorded the song for his debut album but it was left off due to the suggestion that including it might confuse the general public.

Jones biographer Bob Allen wrote in 1983 that the collection was "at best, a lackluster, spliced-together musical effort featuring George at his bronchitis and emphysema-ridden worst."

Jones also disparaged the record not long after it was released, revealing to Los Angeles Times music columnist Robert Hillburn, "I won't even listen to it.

A 2005 reissue of this album, as part of a series called American Milestones, was listed among the 52 CD releases from Sony BMG that were identified as having been shipped with the controversial Extended Copy Protection (XCP) computer software,[5][6] which has been known to cause a number of serious security problems in any Microsoft Windows computer that had the CD inserted at one time and has been regarded as a trojan horse, spyware, or rootkit by a number of security software vendors.