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Music CD - George Strait: It Just Comes Natural
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Music CD: It Just Comes Natural
Artist: George Strait
List Price: $13.98
Our Price: $3.95
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Manufacturer: Mca Nashville
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Tracks:
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1. Give It Away
2. She Told Me So
3. That's My Kind Of Woman
4. Wrapped
5. It Just Comes Natural
6. He Must Have Really You Bad
7. Heart Like Hers
8. Why Can't I Leave Her Alone
9. One Foot In Front Of The Other
10. I Aint' Her Cowboy Anymore
11. Texas Cookin'
12. Better Rain
13. How Bout Them Cowgirls
14. What Say
15. Come On Joe
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0602498889602
Label: Mca Nashville
Manufacturer: Mca Nashville
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Mca Nashville
Release Date: 2006-10-03
Studio: Mca Nashville
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Album
Comment: As this was my first George Strait purchase, it will certainly not be my last. The disc is recorded very well. One of the best recordings I have ever heard. With 15 tracks, there is plenty to listen to. My kind of woman is the best one on the album. Overall, this album is better than Troubadour.
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Summary: Better than his Greatest Hits album...
Comment: This is a fantastic album. I thoroughly enjoyed every song on this record. I enjoyed it so much I bought the 50 greatest hits album which disapointed me a bit.
Overall this is a terrific album though and there are so many solid songs that you can enjoy over and over.
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Summary: A consistent performer
Comment: George Strait is probably one of the most consistent and dependable C&W singers. He doesn't go in for gimmicks, yet uses good production and arranging. This album is excellent, as usual.
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Summary: Disappointed
Comment: I was excited to get this CD thinking that since it won album of the year at the CMAs it would be awesome.
There are about 2 -3 good songs on the CD, just expected more from George, now I am worried I will wear out the CD just replaying the 3 songs I like.
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Summary: Strait up country at its very best
Comment: I'm not sure just how he does it, but every time George Strait steps up to a microphone, the stars and planets align and everything seems right with the world. He imprints songs with an easy, breezy style without abandoning his roots. He takes the sting out of cheating songs and even makes "drinking champagne" sound pretty cool.
Even if country music is not your favorite cup of herbal tea, it's hard not to like Strait's smooth, secure delivery.
"It Just Comes Natural" won Album of the Year at the recent Country Music Association Awards. Its single, "Give It Away," won Song of the Year the same night.
"Give It Away," the first cut on the CD, is a classic country break-up song delivered with just a hint of Merle Haggard tossed in for good measure.
"She Told Me So" delivers tongue-in-cheek lyrics so popula in country music.
"That's My Kind of Woman" offers the acoustic sound Strait has favored lately. No slick production necessary here. It's just Strait and some great acoustic guitar work by Mac McAnally. McAnally, recently inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, has written hits for Kenny Chesney and is a much-sought after studio musician.
"Wrapped" could have been written by Bob Wills. It's a solid two-stepping number with a great turn on the fiddle by Stuart Duncan and some fine steel guitar licks courtesy of Paul Franklin. Strait's never sounded more plantive as he sings about the perils of being wrapped around a lady's "pretty little finger."
The CD's title track is one of three love-gone-right songs. "One Foot in Front of the Other" and "What Say" give us an insider's look into true love.
Strait takes on the role of a sympathetic bartender in "He Must Have Really Hurt You Bad." McAnally and Duncan again provide an extra dimension of loneliness to the cut. Nice.
"A Heart Like Hers," "Why Can't I Leave Her Alone," "A Better Rain" and "Come On Joe" are pure, Strait-up country, with the requisite twang, steel slides and some break-your-heart-in-two tales of loving and leaving.
Strait is well-known for his support of fellow singer-songwriters, so putting Guy Clark's rollicking "Texas Cookin'" on the CD is no surprise. Some spicy licks from Franklin's steel guitar add a fresh kick to the bouncy tune.
As good as the other cuts are, Strait comes closet to perfection with "I Ain't Her Cowboy Anymore." Like his hit, "Amarillo By Morning," the cowboy gets the short end of the loop again and is forced to hit the road alone.
If you're already a fan, this CD will satisfy your Strait cravings. If you're new to country music, the album is a good way to discover why 62 million fans can't be wrong.
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Editorial Reviews:
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When the announcement came that George Strait was to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, there were those who thought it was premature. After all, Strait is only in his early 50s, and with 53 #1s, more than anyone else in Nashville history, he is still an active working artist, not the sort who sits back on a million-acre ranch remembering when. But one spin through It Just Comes Natural and it's obvious why the quiet Texan deserved his induction now. He simply has no mainstream peer, for either his consistency on the charts or his continuing to raise the bar with his confident, nuanced performance. Here, on an album recorded in Key West, Strait sounds even more relaxed than usual, as if he took more time to live with the songs--15 in all--before he recorded them. Throughout, he amply demonstrates his ability to choose material that pushes the country genre beyond its core themes of God, family, and patriotism while still staying traditional. So many of the songs catch one off guard, either because of their different subject matter (the way the lyric of "Come on Joe" gradually tells us the dead never really leave the living) or in their sophisticated approach to a routine topic (the head-spinning recognition of an old flame in Bruce Robison's "Wrapped"). Then there's the artistry with which producer Tony Brown's handpicked studio cats elevate an already great song even higher (a sizzling cover of Guy Clark's folk/honky-tonk/Western swing classic "Texas Cookin'"). Twenty-five years after his recording debut, Strait is still as crisp as the crease in his Wranglers. Yet the leader of the Ace in the Hole band has yet another card up his freshly starched sleeve. The man who doesn't talk in concert and rarely speaks to reporters leads off with "Give It Away," a divorce-and-damage saga set off by--surprise--a recitation! --Alanna Nash
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