George Strait - Troubadour [2008

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George Strait - Troubadour
MP3 | Average VBR 238 Kbps 44100 Stereo | 34:55 | 63.21 MB
2008 | Genre: Country | Songwriter
If you're the kind of person excited by the fact that Saturday follows Friday, you're the type who could similarly celebrate a new George Strait CD every year. Reason being, country traditionalist Strait, 55, is as predictable as that happenstance -- this is his 26th studio album, not counting Christmas CDs and compilations, since his first Top 10 in 1981. His safely familiar sound has been a hallmark of those recordings.
Not as bland and uninspired as its generic album cover portrait, Troubadour (in stores Tuesday) isn't quite as strong as Strait's previous two releases, Somewhere Down in Texas and CMA's current Album of the Year, It Just Comes Natural.
Still, Strait die-hards will no doubt enjoy and seek comfort in the Western swing sound of That West Texas Town (a duet with Dean Dillon), the infectious honky tonker Make Her Fall in Love With Me Song, the busted relationship lament, House With No Doors or the warm count-your-blessings message behind I Saw God Today. All fine songs. It just comes natural to King George, dubbed by some the Sinatra of country music.
The one truly inspired cut here, House of Cash, finds the Texan in a more aggressive, electric mode than usual. Strait and guest vocalist Patty Loveless trade verses, singing about the day the late Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash's house (then under the ownership of Bee Gee Barry Gibb) burned to the ground. A bit more fire in the recording studio and Strait's latest might have served as an entry point for new listeners rather than just yet another quality entry in his growing catalog.
Track List
01 - Troubadour
02 - It Was Me
03 - Brothers Of The Highway
04 - River Of Love
05 - House Of Cash (Duet With Patty Loveless)
06 - I Saw God Today
07 - Give Me More Time
08 - When You're In Love
09 - Make Her Fall In Love With Me Song
10 - West Texas Town (Duet With Dean Dillon)
11 - House With No Doors
12 - If Heartaches Were Horses
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