George Strait - Somewhere Down in Texas
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Artist: George StraitEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-06-28
Music Label: Mca Nashville
Soundtracks:
- If The Whole World Was A Honky Tonk
- Somewhere Down In Texas
- The Seashores Of Old Mexico
- You'll Be There
- High Tone Woman
- Good News, Bad News
- Oh, What A Perfect Day
- Texas
- Ready For The End Of The World
- She Let Herself Go
- By The Light Of A Burning Brige
Music reviews of Somewhere Down in Texas
Music Review: Could be a bit more upbeat, but George has put out another great record
Rating: 4 Stars
Two years after releasing Honkytonkville, his last album of original songs, George Strait has come out with another great record in Somewhere Down In Texas. This album isn't as upbeat as its predecessor, but it still is a solid record.
This record's title track, "Somewhere Down In Texas", could be George's reflection on his almost a quarter century as a country hit maker: "I've been on the road now dang near all my life/I love to sing a song." Even after 51 chart-topping hits and numerous gold and platinum records, George still looks forward to returning to Texas when he's not recording or doing live shows: "I'll be somewhere down in Texas if you're lookin' for me." The self-explanatory "Texas" is another tribute to George's home state: "There wouldn't be no Alamo/No Cowboys in the Super Bowl/No Lonesome Dove, no Yellow Rose/If it wasn't for Texas." George recorded Merle Haggard's "My Life's Been Grand" for his The Road Less Traveled album, and on this record, he sings another solid composition by Merle, the romantic ballad "The Seashores Of Old Mexico". On "If The Whole World Was A Honky Tonk", George reflects on how much better life would be if we could just go to the bar and settle our differences: "We'd tell our troubles to the bar/Over cryin' steel guitars/And then they'd all be gone." The uplifting ballad "You'll Be There", George's current hit, has some of the best lyrics I've heard from George: "We'll climb up on the mountain, y'all, we'll let our voices ring/And those who've never tried it, they'll be the first to sing." I'd have to go back to "Run", George's #1 hit from 2001, to find a song that's as strong lyrically as this one. In "She Let Herself Go", the man is surprised that his ex-lover is pretty happy since he left her: "She let herself go/On a singles cruise/To Vegas once/Then to Honolulu." In "Ready For The End Of The World", the guy is steeling himself for his lover's inevitable departure: "I bought a case of Jack, a box set of Merle/I'm getting ready/Ready for the end of the world." In "Oh, What A Perfect Day", everything in the speaker's life is going wrong all at once, but he doesn't care because he gets to spend time with the one he loves. "Good News, Bad News", George's duet with his MCA label mate Lee Ann Womack, has the man meeting up with his old flame after a long absence, only to find that they're not able to get back together because she's already found someone else. George still hasn't written a song for one of his records, but he still picks out great tunes, as you'll see when you listen to this album.
Despite being another great George Strait record, Somewhere Down In Texas has one problem: it lacks really upbeat songs. To George's credit, this record's uptempo songs are very enjoyable. "High Tone Woman", about a guy's infatuation with the well-dressed, flirtatious woman he sees at the bar, is classic George Strait honky-tonk swing. "By The Light Of A Burning Bridge", the closing song, is a joyful ode to budding romance: "It's amazing what a man can see by the light of a burning bridge." These two songs are well-done; however, there isn't anything else uptempo about Somewhere Down In Texas. To be sure, George has tapped his "real" country roots and come out with some great music. However, this record could have used a few more songs like the two I just mentioned. This album is very good, but it drags in places. Still, on Somewhere Down In Texas, I think George has once again done himself proud. He put together a solid collection of songs, and he'll surely add to his unstoppable string of hits.
Description of Somewhere Down in Texas
11 tracks including a duet with Lee Ann Womack.Country's most reluctant superstar can always lend gravity to even the weakest of songs, so masterful is his phrasing and restrained, expressive delivery, and so artful his picking and the production that surrounds his Everyman baritone. On Somewhere Down in Texas, many of George Strait's songs are semiautobiographical and ring with authenticity. The title track portrays a man who's weary of the road and yearns to stay home with his family; "Texas" salutes the state that made him what he is; and "You'll Be There," the heartfelt single that talks of meeting a loved one in the afterlife, likely hits a nerve with the singer, who lost a child some years ago. Strait also does well with the terrible twins of country dance-hall fare, misery and grief--particularly on the honky-tonk weeper "Ready for the End of the World" and the killer ballad "Good News, Bad News," a duet with Lee Ann Womack, who cowrote the tune with Dean Dillon and Dale Dodson. Womack sings rings around her fellow Texan, giving her reading of this exquisite song of heartbreak an emotional resonance that sticks in the mind long after it's over. But Strait conveys a stoic acceptance of a tragically missed chance at love, and it plays just right for a cowboy antihero. Somewhere Down in Texas could have benefited from the addition of an irresistible rhythm tune or another example of the western swing that Strait embraced so fervently early in his career. But every time ol' George refers to his heroes by name--Haggard, Nelson, and Jones--you know time will show him to be, if not precisely in their league, certainly a close second. --Alanna Nash Recommended George Strait
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