{"id":6972,"date":"2016-02-05T13:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T19:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/?p=6972"},"modified":"2016-02-03T13:00:06","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T19:00:06","slug":"george-strait-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/2016\/02\/05\/george-strait-who\/","title":{"rendered":"George Strait, Who?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After floating the river in New Braunfels, Texas, my extended family and I had to fill our five-car caravan gas tanks before we got on the road back to my grandfather\u2019s ranch outside of College Station. We stopped non other place than the Texas mother ship of gas stations, Buc-ee\u2019s<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Buc-ee\u2019s, is not only a gas station, but also a convenience store. I like to describe it as the Costco or Sam\u2019s Club version of convenience store. It has all the features of typical convenience store.\u00a0However, what makes Buc-ee\u2019s stand out among the rest of convenience stores, is it\u2019s deliciously jerky and other specialty snacks, large supply of furniture, college gear for every University in the state of Texas, and country home d\u00e9cor.<\/p>\n

With about 25 family members, and their general obsession with Buc-ee\u2019s we certainly spent our time looking around. I was looking around with my mother and three cousins. (Keep in mind they were ALL Texas Natives). I read aloud a country d\u00e9cor sign that read,<\/p>\n

\u201cUnless you\u2019re God or George Strait, take your boots off.\u201d<\/p>\n

I said, \u201cGeorge Strait<\/a>, who?\u201d<\/p>\n

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After hearing those words out of my mouth, the expression on these Texans was full of disgust, disbelief, and absolute shock.<\/p>\n

During this time I was recovering from a severe concussion. My brain was very out of it.\u00a0Regardless of my current physical health circumstance at the time, my extended family certainly still does not let me forget I did not know who King of country music was, and were he came from\u2026.Texas.<\/p>\n

Strait, originally from Poteert, Texas, showed up on the country music scene in 1981, and still sings today. Strait became the definition of \u00a0traditional and “real country music”<\/a>. \u00a0Strait holds the record for singles that hit number one, total of 57 to inclusive of all chart, and has 33 platinum \u00a0or multi-platinum albums. While today’s country combines with pop, the Country Music Hall of Fame<\/a> describes Strait’s music as drawing “from both the western swing and the honky-tonk traditions of his native Texas.”<\/p>\n

Thus, I learned very quickly one could not separate the name, \u201cGeorge Strait\u201d and the place, \u201cTexas,\u201d so here\u2019s five songs dedicated to the Lone Star State sung by Strait.<\/p>\n