Ten Strait Hits covers ten straight Top 10 singles (including eight number one hits) that George Strait had between 1988 and 1990, all of which are presented in...
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Merry Christmas Strait to You features George Strait performing a variety of holiday favorites. Featured songs include "White Christmas," "There's a New Kid in Town,"...
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Solid but unremarkable, Strait's seventh album shows his Western roots more overtly than usual with a cover of "Deep Water." "Nobody In His Right Mind Would've Left Her" and...
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This excellent album went triple platinum for country-singing great George Strait. It was a sure success with songs like "Am I Blue," "All My Ex's Live in Texas," "Burning...
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Three songs from this album--"You Look So Good In Love" "Right Or Wrong" "Let's Fall To Pieces Together"--reached the top of the country chart, and Strait keeps the rest of...
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Strait's music changes only subtly from album to album, so his albums are recommended mostly by their consistency. This one had only two hits singles, "The Chair" and...
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Something Special is another excellent George Strait record from the mid-'80s, featuring new traditionalist classics like "Left's Gone" and "The Chair." Occasionally, the...
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Two early albums appear in one. The first and arguably the best of the '80s crop of Haggard-indebted hats, Strait has never much wavered from a Western-swing-tinged, honky...
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Strait's second album contains his first number one hit, "Fool Hearted Memory," as well as "Marina Del Rey," "Amarillo By Morning" and "A Fire I Can't Put Out" which still...
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George Strait may have landed his first number one in 1982, making him an "overnight sensation," but he'd been working for it since 1976. Strait From the Heart boasts...
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Beyond The Blue Neon relies heavily on Strait's Western swing influence, and Bob Wills would've been proud. The album produced four hits, "Ace In The Hole," "Overnight...
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Beyond the Blue Neon doesn't really alter George Strait's formula at all, but it is remarkable for its consistent quality. Over the course of its 10 tracks, nothing on the...
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Strait's first album with producer Jimmy Bowen is his other release to be picked as the CMA's Album Of The Year (1985). The title track hit the top of the country singles...
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Two years after his breakthrough album, Strait From the Heart, George Strait was riding the charts again with perhaps his finest recorded moment. Does Fort Worth Ever Cross...
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Strait latches on to particular writers and will sing their songs for years. Dean Dillon, whose "Without Me Around" is included here, is the classic example. He also seems...
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Popular country singer George Strait once again does what he does so well on this late-1993 album, Easy Come, Easy Go. He mixes the standards of traditional country, a bit...
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Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 picks up George Strait's string of hits in 1984 and includes 10 of his biggest singles from the mid-'80s, including "Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your...
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The title's a pretty apt description of the music on this album, which features a couple of big hits, "Gone As A Girl Can Get" and the heart-wrenching "So Much Like My Dad,"...
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This album's three number one singles--"If You Ain't Lovin' (You Ain't Livin')," "Baby Blue" and "Famous Last Words Of A Fool"--can be had in a better context on his Ten...
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Included is a great cover of the old Faron Young title song, and other swingin' tonkers. ~ Mark A. Humphrey, All Music...
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Livin' It Up 5/15/1990, Yahoo! Music, Brian Mansfield
Livin' It Up contains two of Strait's very biggest hits, "Love Without End, Amen" and "I've Come To Expect It From You," which each spent five weeks atop the Billboard...
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Strait works a little bit of Louisiana into his classic Texas sound on "Adalida" and "Down Louisiana Way." Dean Dillon and Alabama's Teddy Gentry wrote the title track, and...
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Award-winning singer George Strait's 1994 album, Lead On, went double platinum -- and for good reason. The songs on this superb country recording showcase the artist's...
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Through musical trends and fads and industry ups and downs, George Strait just keeps rolling around. The Texas honky-tonker makes it seem so easy that his albums sound...
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The problem with George Strait is this: His albums are so consistently good that a fine effort like Always Never the Same runs the risk of getting overlooked simply because...
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Strait's not a flashy singer, so his albums are only as good as the songs he finds, and what songs these are: With its taut harmonies and lovestruck optimism, "Blue Clear...
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Country's most consistent traditionalist, George Strait, scores again with Blue Clear Sky, one of the best albums of his 15-year career. Blue Clear Sky shows off Strait's...
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After the relatively modern sounds of Blue Clear Sky, Strait took a sharp turn towards the traditional on Carrying Your Love With Me, which has more honky tonk and less...
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Blue Clear Sky was a defining moment in George Strait's career, illustrating that he could still deliver a masterpiece in the latter half of his career. Its follow-up,...
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He was there before the boom, he thrived during the boom, and now that it's waning, George Strait is still there--mainly because the unreconstructed honky-tonk style he...
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One Step at a Time continues the hot streak George Strait began with Blue Clear Sky. It's not on par with that latter-day masterpiece, yet equals its follow-up, Carrying...
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Strait's albums have become so crisply professional that his debut, produced by Blake Mevis, sounds like it comes from a different era, which in some ways it did. "Unwound,"...
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A truly comprehensive four-CD compilation covering the years 1976-1995, including all 31 of his number one hits, 11 more chart singles of great musical significance, 19 LP...
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Working with producer Tony Brown and within the movie's lead character, Strait added a tougher, almost rock-influenced sound to his repertoire for this soundtrack, which...
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With a career that spans nearly 20 years, 26 albums that have been certified platinum or multi-platinum, and countless number-one and Top-Ten hits, it's probably easy for...
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George Strait continues his foray into the neo-traditionalist country style that he helped to pioneer on his 24th album, the simply titled George Strait. His voice has...
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Thirteen years after the release of his first holiday album, Merry Christmas Strait to You, George Strait brings nostalgia and a sense of familiarity to his second spin on...
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Industry icon George Strait is obviously still "countrified" in The Road Less Traveled, but the country traditionalist has a few out of the ordinary tricks up his sleeve...
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The "For the Last Time" in the title does not refer to the last concert George Strait ever gave, nor does this suggest that this is a farewell to live albums; in fact, it's...
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The release of Honkytonkville should make anyone who harbored insane thoughts about George Strait having his best years behind him certifiable. While it may be his 27th...
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There have been plenty of George Strait compilations, and most of have been very good, but none have been as good as 2004's 50 Number Ones. While the 1995 box set Strait Out...
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A good overview of Strait's first round of MCA chartbusters from the early '80s, it includes "Right or Wrong," "Amarillo by Morning," "You Look So Good in Love," "Fool...
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George Strait himself chose the 12 number one country hits included in this midline-priced compilation, which presents digitally remastered tracks. The hits ranged from "You...
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George Strait himself compiled this discount-priced, holiday best-of from his two previous seasonal collections, Merry Christmas Strait to You! (1986) and Merry Christmas...
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George Strait has been so good for so long that it's easy to take him for granted, and Somewhere Down in Texas -- his 28th album, if you're keeping score -- is the kind of...
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