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Recorded between June 1976 and April 10, 1995. Includes liner notes by Paul Kingsbury, Dee Henry Jenkins and Kay West. "Check Yes Or No" won the 1996 Country Music Association Award for Single Of The Year, and George Strait won the C.M.A. ... Full Descriptionaward for Male Vocalist Of The Year.
During the early '80s, when crossover fever ruled the Nashville roost, George Strait did his darndest to keep a sense of tradition within country music's capital. With a sound built on Bob Wills' big-band swing and George Jones' Texas tall tales, and refined through years of playing Lone Star honky-tonks, Strait took Music City by storm, proving that hits and critical praise were not mutually exclusive. Strait embodied mainstream country's glance into its own history during the '80s, and by the end of the decade was among its biggest stars. STRAIT OUT OF THE BOX documents this climb of a neo- traditionalist, spotlighting some unexpected twists and previously unreleased turns.
The portrait of Strait that emerges is of a stately singer and bandleader, with a skill for finding hits and getting the most out of his sidemen. On the rarely-heard, early singles, his Ace In The Hole band shines, the various string instruments at once echoing the singer's words and cooking up a sweet honky-tonk shuffle. It is a sound he wouldn't readily abandon. By the time of "Unwound," his first country top-ten, Strait had already added a commercial gleam to his Texas swing. The fiddle bounces and cries with a melody reminiscent of Hank, Sr., as Strait tells a mid-tempo tale of a dissolving love. After that, seemingly every song he touched turned into a chart-topper--from the uptown country-pop of "Marina Del Ray," which is like a late-period Beach Boys tune wrapped in a southern twang, to the waltz of "Let's Fall To Pieces Together," which features the plaintive fiddle of Johnny Gimble, to the spare "Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind," cushioned by Hank DeVito's steel guitar. The rest, as they say, is history.
The newest tracks on STRAIT OUT OF THE BOX spotlight Strait's ability to build new sounds out of familiar pieces. "Check Yes Or No" resonates with the big country sound of Garth Brooks and memories of childhood romance, and "Fly Me To The Moon," an unreleased duet with Frank Sinatra, is a light-hearted stroll through the crossroads of their respective styles. Sharing the microphone with the Chairman Of The Board--what better way is there to measure an artist's success?
The Nashville String Machine: George Binkley, John David Boyle, Marvin Chantry, Roy Christensen, Virginia Christensen, Carl Gorodetzky, Lennie Haight, Dennis Molchan, Walter Schwede, Donald Teal, Gary Vanosdale, Pamela Vanosdale, Stephanie Woolf.
Producers include: Don Daily, Blake Mevis, Jimmy Bowen, Tony Brown, George Strait.
Compilation producer: George Strait.
Personnel includes: George Strait (vocals, guitar); Frank Sinatra, Hank Thompson (vocals); Steve Gibson, Gregg Galbraith, Steve Chapman, Jimmy Capps, Jerry Shook, Fred Newell, Pete Bordonali (guitar); Mike Daily, John Hughey, Weldon Myrick (steel guitar); Cindy Cashdollar (Hawaiian steel guitar); Johnny Gimble (mandolin, fiddle); Mark O'Connor, Gene Elders, Stuart Duncan, Glen Duncan (fiddle); Jim Horn (alto flute, saxophone); Steve Marsh (saxophone); Floyd Domino, Randy McCormick, Ronnie Huckaby, Bill Miller (piano); Mitch Humphries, Hargus "Pig" Robbins (keyboards); Terry Hale, David Hungate, Leland Sklar, Joe Chemay, Emory Gordy, Jr. (bass); Owen Hale, Larrie Londin (drums).
Asleep At The Wheel includes: Ray Benson, Ricky Turpin, Michael Francis, Tim Alexander, Dave Sanger.
4 CD Box Set
Journal Of Country Music (Vol.18, Num.1, pp.52-54) - "...remarkably consistent: the rarely heard, pre-MCA songs...aren't all that different in tone and tempo from the most recent tunes....[he] comes across like the musical equivalent of Gary Cooper's film image: honest, stolid, denying all self-pity, thoroughly admirable in a thoroughly low-key way..." Hide Description Strait Out Of The Box Music
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| | | | Strait Out Of The Box CD DISC 1: |
  | 1. | I Just Can't Go on Dying Like This  |
| 2. | Way I Feel About You, (That Don't Change) The |
| 3. | I Don't Want to Talk It Over Anymore |
| 4. | Unwound |
| 5. | Blame It on Mexico |
| 6. | Her Goodbye Hit Me in the Heart |
| 7. | If You're Thinking You Want a Stranger (There's One Coming Home) |
| 8. | Any Old Love Won't Do - (previously unreleased) |
| 9. | Fool Hearted Memory |
| 10. | Marina del Rey |
| 11. | I Can't See Texas From Here |
| 12. | Heartbroke |
| 13. | What Would Your Memory Do - (previously unreleased) |
| 14. | Amarillo by Morning |
| 15. | I Thought I Heard You Calling My Name - (previously unreleased) |
| 16. | Fire I Can't Put Out, A |
| 17. | You Look So Good in Love |
| 18. | 80 Proof Bottle of Tear Stopper |
| | Strait Out Of The Box Songs DISC 2: |
| 1. | Right or Wrong |
| 2. | Let's Fall to Pieces Together |
| 3. | Does Ft. Worth Ever Cross Your Mind |
| 4. | Cowboy Rides Away, The |
| 5. | Fireman, The |
| 6. | Chair, The |
| 7. | You're Something Special to Me |
| 8. | Haven't You Heard |
| 9. | In Too Deep |
| 10. | Lefty's Gone |
| 11. | Nobody in His Right Mind Would've Left Her |
| 12. | It Ain't Cool to Be Crazy About You |
| 13. | Ocean Front Property |
| 14. | Rhythm of the Road |
| 15. | Six-Pack to Go - (with Hank Thompson) |
| 16. | All My Ex's Live in Texas |
| 17. | Am I Blue |
| 18. | Famous Last Words of a Fool |
| | Strait Out Of The Box Album DISC 3: |
| 1. | Baby Blue |
| 2. | If You Ain't Lovin' (You Ain't Livin') |
| 3. | Baby's Gotten Good at Goodbye |
| 4. | Bigger Man Than Me |
| 5. | Hollywood Squares |
| 6. | What's Going on in Your World |
| 7. | Ace in the Hole |
| 8. | Love Without End, Amen |
| 9. | Drinking Champagne |
| 10. | I've Come to Expect It From You |
| 11. | If I Know Me |
| 12. | You Know Me Better Than That |
| 13. | Chill of an Early Fall, The |
| 14. | Lovesick Blues |
| 15. | Milk Cow Blues |
| 16. | Gone as a Girl Can Get |
| 17. | So Much Like My Dad |
| 18. | Trains Make Me Lonesome |
| | Strait Out Of The Box CD DISC 4: |
| 1. | Wonderland of Love |
| 2. | I Cross My Heart |
| 3. | Heartland |
| 4. | When Did You Stop Loving Me |
| 5. | Overnight Male |
| 6. | King of Broken Hearts, The |
| 7. | Where the Sidewalk Ends |
| 8. | Easy Come, Easy Go |
| 9. | I'd Like to Have That One Back |
| 10. | Lovebug |
| 11. | Man in Love With You, The |
| 12. | Just Look at Me |
| 13. | Stay Out of My Arms |
| 14. | Big Ball's in Cowtown - (with Asleep At The Wheel) |
| 15. | Big One, The |
| 16. | Fly Me to the Moon - (previously unreleased, with Frank Sinatra) |
| 17. | Check Yes or No - (previously unreleased) |
| 18. | I Know She Still Loves Me - (previously unreleased) |
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