TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of George Strait
George Strait
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.1975
George Strait Album Rankings
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In October 1988, the morning after the prestigious Country Music Association awards, a glum-faced George Strait sat slumped in his chair in a Nashville pancake house looking like someone who'd lost th
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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 tracks, and 11 more rare tra
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Country's most consistent traditionalist, George Strait, scores again withBlue Clear Sky, one of the best albums of his 15-year career.
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Ten Strait Hitscovers ten straight Top Ten singles (including eight number one hits) that George Strait had between 1988 and 1990, all of which are presented in chronological order.
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5
This excellent album went triple platinum for country-singing great George Strait.
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6
One Step at a Timecontinues the hot streak George Strait began withBlue Clear Sky.
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7
Strait doesn't let his sex-symbol status preclude playing a cuckold in ''She Told Me So,'' an obscure old George Jones LP track that appears on his latest disc, It Just Comes Natural : ''Each night sh
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George Strait's latest, Somewhere Down in Texas , is so Texas-centric that when, in the heavenly ''You'll Be There,'' he sings, ''I'll see you on the other side,'' you might imagine he means Oklahoma,
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9
Two years after his breakthrough album,Strait From the Heart, George Strait was riding the charts again with perhaps his finest recorded moment.
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10
Something Specialis another excellent George Strait record from the mid-'80s, featuring new traditionalist classics like "Left's Gone" and "The Chair.
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Chris Willman Chris Willman is a senior music writer for Entertainment Weekly George Strait is the most reliable record-maker and biggest one-man hit factory in any genre of music — so much so th
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13
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 Western swing than most of h
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14
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.
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15
Through musical trends and fads and industry ups and downs, George Strait just keeps rolling around.
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Honky-tonk Lite When it comes to George Strait , I'm of two minds.
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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.
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18
Strait works a little bit of Louisiana into his classic Texas sound on "Adalida" and "Down Louisiana Way.
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19
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 the first live album Strai
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21
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 hold high places in the Str
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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 the yuletide season.
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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," and eight more tracks tha
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#7 (0.2705)No review available
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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 the material up to their s
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27
Beyond The Blue Neon relies heavily on Strait's Western swing influence, and Bob Wills would've been proud.
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28
Merry Christmas Strait to You features George Strait performing a variety of holiday favorites.
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30
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 also became his best-selling
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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 country singles chart in 1990 a
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42
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.
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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 tonk base. ~ Mark A.
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