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Everyone loves George Strait. From country fans to rock critics, George Strait is singled out as the PURE country artist. On LEAD ON, his admirers have new reason to follow.
His unadulterated country sound, awash in steel, fiddles and clean guitar picking, is swept by the deep waves of his distinctive Texas baritone. From the cajun dance beat of "Adalida" to the maxi-traditional "I Met A Friend Of Yours Today," Strait runs the gamut of tasty and tasteful country. No filler, no radio junkfood, just a lesson to all the wannabes, this is Country Music 101.
"Nobody Gets Hurt," by Jim Lauderdale (a Strait favorite) and Terry McBride, is a contemporary country classic with an old-time bass shuffle that makes it sound warmly familiar. "Down Louisiana Way" sounds like a frisky Lucinda Williams cover. "The Big One" is classic Straitabilly, an unobtrusive marriage of rock and country. "Lead On" is a gentle ballad, with dead-on delivery and phrasing.
Every cut is restrained, no excesses, but there's no holding back either. The tear in Strait's beer is as salty as any other country singer, and when he hurts you hear the sting. LEAD ON is like a greatest hits package: diverse, familiar, and of the highest quality. Only George Strait can pull off such a feat with ten new songs.
Audio Mixer: John Guess.
Recording information: Emerald Sound Studios; Sound Stage Studio.
Photographer: Jarrett Gaza.
Personnel: George Strait (vocals); Brent Mason (acoustic & electric guitars), Paul Franklin (steel guitar); Steve Nathan (organ, synthesizer), Glenn Worf (bass); Eddie Bayers (drums); Curtis Young, Liana Manis (background vocals).
Personnel: Steve Gibson, Brent Mason (acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Paul Franklin, Buddy Emmons (steel guitar); Stuart Duncan (fiddle); Matt Rollings (piano, keyboards); Steve Nathan (organ, synthesizer); Eddie Bayers (drums); Curtis Young, Liana Manis (background vocals).
Entertainment Weekly (11/18/94, p.108) - "...Strait has too much grace to make a bad album..." - Rating: B George Strait Lead On Songs Lead On Review
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Purchase Lead On CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | George Strait Holding My Own CD (1992)
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By the time he released his twelfth album Holding My Own in 1992, George Strait had been having hits for over a decade, a long time in any kind of pop music, so it should come as no surprise that when this hit the market it was surrounded by albums cut by singers inspired by Strait. As such, the title itself can be read as a little bit defensive, proving that Strait was indeed comparing well to such new stars as Garth Brooks, and there are other slight signs of Strait and producer Jimmy Bowen reacting to the shifting times. There's the return of a coat of gloss on such slow ...
| | George Strait Ocean Front Property CD (1987)
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One of the biggest country albums of the 1980s and a virtual greatest-hits ...
| | George Strait Chill Of An Early Fall CD (1991)
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1991's THE CHILL OF AN EARLY FALL is the first album that George Strait released after the sudden ascendance of Garth Brooks as the new king of ...
| | George Strait Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind CD (1984)
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DOES FORT WORTH EVER CROSS YOUR MIND was voted CMA Album of the Year in 1985.
After his somewhat belated commercial breakthrough STRAIT FROM THE HEART, George Strait bobbled things a bit with ...
| | George Strait Beyond The Blue Neon CD (1989)
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It could easily be argued that George Strait never made a bad album and they were all hits, but even among that remarkably consistent catalog, 1989's Beyond the Blue Neon stands apart from the pack, with half of its ten tracks reaching the country charts. Three of these topped the charts -- "Baby's Gotten Good at Goodbye," "What's Going on in Your World," and "Ace in the Hole" -- with "Overnight Success" peaking at eight and "Hollywood Squares," a novelty so sly and understated ...
| | George Strait One Step At A Time CD (1998)
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This is a DTS CD, which features DTS 5.1 Surround ...
| | Rave On CD (2001)
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| | Trance Xperience, Vol. 2 CD (2000)
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| | Le Vent Du Nord Maudite Moisson! CD (2003) (Import) Canada
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The individual members that make up the quartet of La Vent du Nord have a wide variety of experience in French-Canadian folk music, and its European antecedents and American parallels, but knowledge doesn't always mean a fine performance. Happily, La Vent du Nord are less preservers of a past than they are welcome infusers of life to a number of traditions -- Maudite Moisson is, a few calm numbers aside, kick-up-your-heels music through and through. Knowing French isn't a prerequisite for enjoying this fine album, though it doesn't hurt, with lyrics touching on everything from ancient love stories ...
| | Bob Dylan Love & Theft CD (2001) SACD Hybrid
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This is a hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both regular and Super Audio CD players.
Bob Dylan's career has always been about defying expectations. Accordingly he followed 1997's much-heralded TIME OUT OF MIND with a marked about-face. Where its predecessor was a bleak emotional landscape full of languid atmospheres, existential sentiments, and graveyard vocal delivery, LOVE AND THEFT finds Dylan much more energized and hopeful. Instead of swamp-like textures, we get sharp, cracking bar-band blues, and lissome ballads with a '20s/'30s feel. The old codger has never sounded more spry; after observing that "summer days and summer nights are gone," he follows up with "I know a place where there's still something going on." Elsewhere he's variously hunting bear, standing on a table to make a toast, burning down a house, and starting a new empire.
The musical context for all this uproar is informed more heavily by Dylan's earliest Americana roots than anything other than his albums of traditional folk songs. Delta and Chicago blues are templates for many songs, while a few others even more anachronistically suggest a future for Dylan as ghost writer for Leon Redbone. The lyrics themselves are littered with quotes from/references to old blues tunes, but Dylan's classic non-linear structure and wild imagination allow him to transcend his influences even as he assimilates them.
Time Out of Mind was a legitimate comeback, Bob Dylan's first collection of original songs ...
| | Freddy Powers My Great Escape CD (2004)
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| | Stefano Valla Music Of The Apennins CD (2005) (Import) Import
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| | Best Of George Jones CD (2007) (Import)
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Illustrator: Federico Pilotto.
| | Germany CD (2007)
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