June 2012
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Merle Haggard: Songs I Wish I'd Written →
“Give It Away” | George Strait, 2006
Jamey Johnson wrote this. It’s about two people breaking up. He says, “What are we gonna do with the chairs and table?” She says, “Fuck it! Give it away.” Jamey is the first to come along in a long spell with the ability to write that way. - Merle Haggard
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Strait talk →
More than 25 years ago, George Strait was an unknown singer playing for beer and pocket money in Texas honky-tonks. He worked at a ranch during the day and made some demos in hopes of getting a recording contract. There were times, he admits, when he had doubts. “I was getting a little nutty. I questioned whether my attempts at getting on a Nashville label were doing any good,”...
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Country Artists Who Have Served: George Strait →
Perhaps more than any other artist, George Strait‘s time in the military helped launch his country music career. The singer was enlisted in the U.S. Army from 1971 to 1975, and he spent the final two years in Hawaii. While there he played country music with an Army-sponsored band called Rambling Country, and also with an off-base group called Santee. By the time he left, he was already a...
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otherworldvermin asked: Awesome tumblr!
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“I told the guy, ‘Look, I don’t want to change anything. I just want to learn how...”
– George Strait (on enrolling at the University of Hawaii, where he took formal vocal lessons)
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