Once upon a time when men were men, women were women and country music was country music, Nashville was the home of some hard-living, harder-loving, songwriting, country artists. It was a time when country music was not being sung by artists with coiffered hair and well conditioned physiques. <\/p>\n
Country music today sells hundreds of millions of albums each year and fills arenas throughout our country. It is a blend of country and rock and bears little resemblance to its classic predecessors. <\/p>\n
Troubadour <\/i>is just about the perfect country album. The album is varied enough to be interesting but not overly long so as to wear out its welcome. The album is also filled with well-written and brilliantly structured songs from the cream of country authors. Strait did not write any songs on this album, but because of his stature he is able to choose from the best available. <\/p>\n The album\u2019s title track is an uplifting autobiographical song about aging. The aging process for \u201cIt Was Me\u201d starts off with steel guitar and fiddle, which leads into an acoustic ballad story. Strait presents an uplifting story of love found which runs counterpoint to the slow, subdued music. Meanwhile, \u201cBrothers Of The Highway\u201d is a classic country trucker song. This ode to the road comes with upbeat honky tonk piano, steel guitar, and thumping drums in support. <\/p>\n \u201cThe House Of Cash\u201d is a duet with Patty Loveless and serves as a tribute and farewell to Johnny Cash and June Carter. This can almost be classified as country blues and Loveless\u2019 voice is suited for this type of song. <\/p>\n Other highlights include \u201cI Saw God Today\u201d which is the finding of God in the little things of life that we so often ignore. \u201cMake Her Fall In Love With Me Song\u201d is a tongue-in-cheek song about finding the right song to make a girl fall in love with him. This song is far removed from Strait\u2019s typical material, as it has a honky tonk feel with outstanding piano runs.<\/p>\n Troubadour <\/i>is a rare country album that keeps your attention throughout. Its upbeat messages and expert musicianship allow the album to effortlessly meander along as it presents small chapters about the stories of life; this deserves to take its place among the classic country albums.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":29327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[8196],"rating":[5646],"class_list":["post-40881","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-george-strait","rating-rating-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40881"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=40881"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=40881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}