The Road Less Traveled

Run. Great song.

Shipped fast and was as described by seller. You can't go wrong with George Strait!

Simply put, bought this to add to my collection of GS music. Love his music!

I would advise everyone to watch this to inform them what is going on.

My wife and I both love the music of George Straight and this album did not disappoint. Run brought back memories of coming home from the first gulf war. True love will not be separated. The other tracks on this album are just pure George Straight and worth listening to over and over again.

I became a fan of George Strait after seeing him in the movie "Pure Country" and buying the soundtrack album to that movie. For much of the '90s George's music sounded great, but since '96, when George put out Blue Clear Sky, he's released only one record, Always Never The Same, that I thought was great all around. Don't get me wrong--I like The Road Less Traveled, George's latest record, and I think it is a strong album. However, I think it falls just short of being great.First, let's start out with what I like about this record--and I found a lot to like about it. "Run", the romantic song that's getting played a lot as the debut single, isn't typical George because he used a synthesizer in his arrangement of the song. However, it has strong lyrics("Run, cut a path across the blue skies/Straight in a straight line you can't get here fast enough"), as do the majority of songs on the record. "Living And Living Well" and "Don't Tell Me You're Not In Love" are also well-written romantic ballads, each about going all out in order to have a strong relationship. "The Road Less Traveled", the title song, is about life's lessons and taking risks("The road less traveled ain't for the faint of heart...Me I want to live my life and one day leave my mark"). "The Middle Of Nowhere" is a variation by George on the lost-love theme, this time about a man's being abandoned by his lover and sitting on a mountain top trying to figure things out--literally, "in the middle of nowhere". "She'll Leave You With A Smile", basically, is from the point of view of a guy trying to tell his friend about what happens when he(the friend) gets involved with a woman. It will be great at first, as the speaker says to his friend, but when she decides to end things, the man had better watch out, because "she'll leave you with a smile". Merle Haggard's "My Life's Been Grand", the concluding song("My life's been grand, I've been a hand at living it up all the way"), could sum up George's career, in my opinion. Not only is he a successful recording artist, but he has gotten a lot of enjoyment out of having a family and doing things at home.The Road Less Traveled isn't just a slow-dancing record. George has three uptempo songs on here. He gets two out of three right, in my opinion. Rodney Crowell's "Stars On The Water" is a strong tune about what it's like to live in towns and perform in music clubs "on the shoreline"(the Louisiana bayou, Beaumont, Biloxi, and so on), feel the sea breeze, and get "stars on the water when it rains". Rodney has hit it big with hit songs he's written for other artists--for instance, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Waylon Jennings, Rosanne Cash, and Tim McGraw. He has another winner here, in my opinion. If George decides to release "Stars On The Water" as a single, I think it will become a #1 hit, like practically every other song George has released. It's a great tune. So is "The Real Thing", Chip Taylor's rockabilly anthem. I think "The Real Thing" sums up George's approach to music. No matter what tempo he uses, he doesn't go for overproduced "country-pop" tunes, but instead has stuck with authentic songs that express honest feelings("the real thing"). The loser in this trio of upbeat songs is the honky-tonk barroom song "Good Time Charley's". "Good Time Charley's" could be a great song, but it's spoiled by "hokey" background barroom noise that I think is contrived. When George had upbeat hits earlier in his career(for instance, "Heartland", "The Big One" and "Blue Clear Sky"), he never added to them by putting any kind of noise in the background. The songs stood on their own. In comparison to the other uptempo songs I've mentioned, including the ones I previously talked about from The Road Less Traveled, "Good Time Charley's" doesn't sound real to me because of its background noise. It sounds like a "filler" song that George put on a record just so the record would have 10 songs on it. However, one "unreal" song doesn't detract from the record itself, which I think is very good overall. The Road Less Traveled is well-done, and it's an example of how George has managed to be a hitmaker for over 20 years. He has stayed successful by making good songs and records. The Road Less Traveled is a strong George Strait album.

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