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Good news and bad news regarding the George Strait concert at the Sprint Center this past Saturday. The good news is that, if you'd been unable to attend, it's been rescheduled for this Saturday, March 3.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]

At a Country Music Association awards show in the late 1970s, Ray Benson of Asleep At The Wheel showed up wearing a stetsons. He and the similarly behatted and long-haired Charlie Daniels and John Anderson were politely asked to remove their headgear. But as the rhinestones faded, the Stetson would become an obligatory sartorial item in the country fraternity. We might credit the mercifully brief Urban Cowboy movement — spearheaded by John Tavolta's Honky Tonk Night Fever movie — for popularising the cowboy hat, which had been sported by many people over the years but never was standard apparel in [...]

While Strait spends about half the album doling out sunbeams, the other half is all shadows and pain, firmly in the old-country tradition of hard luck songs. On one of the most artless cover photos of the year: An on-stage, earphone-sporting George Strait smiles, in a literal translation of the title of his 26th studio album, Here for a Good Time. The title track, which has already bounced its way up the radio chart, is an optimist's anthem that's also of the live-it-up, 'nothin' but a good time' variety. The album begins with a similarly upbeat message ("Love's Gonna [...]

Photo by Nikki MillerGimme fifty mill and I'll sell you a Ford pickup truck!No, he didn't out-earn Lady Gaga, who topped Forbes' list of highest-paid celebrities, but at his $50 million to her

The benefit concert for Central Texas wildfire victims October 17th has added George Strait to the list of headliners that will be performing. The benefit to help the people affected by the fires with their long-term issues and problems already includes some of the best in Texas music including Willie Nelson, Lyle Lovett, the Steve Miller Band, and the Dixie Chicks as well as Ray Benson and Asleep at the Wheel, Eric Johnson, and Shawn Colvin With a career spanning more than 30 years, George Strait has the most No. 1 singles of any artist in [...]

The iron man of country music George Strait's numbers are eye-popping: 30 years, 24 chart-topping albums, 57 chart-topping singles, 69 million records sold. 84 of his 89 radio singles have cracked the Top 10 – second only to Eddy Arnold (who notched 92!). It's a streak worthy of Lou Gehrig and Cal Ripkin Jr. One could wonder whether his fame has simply become self-sustaining, but the music industry is littered with acts who maintained their success for a few years or a decade, but few have sustained Strait's level of commercial success for thirty [...]

Lady Antebellum has delivered another chart topper, Adele continues to sell like crazy, Lil Wayne is still understandable. Staind also debuted this week and it must be 2001 or something, wtf?. THIS WEEK // LAST WEEK // TOTAL SALES 1. LADY ANTEBELLUM - OWN THE NIGHT (347,479 // DEBUT) 2. ADELE - 21 (119,183 // 121,334 // 3,538,444) 3. LIL' WAYNE - [...]

Nothing too shocking here. One debut, Three oldies moved up, a rapper goes platinum, and Adele continues to sell a shitload. Welcome To Check it out below! Kisses!!! This Week // Last Week // Total Sales 1. LIL' WAYNE - THA CARTER IV 218,761 // 963,970 // 1,184,103 2. ADELE - 21 121,334 // 154,182 // 3,419,261 3. GEORGE STRAIT - HERE [...]

Despite a wave of bad reviews , Lil Wayne's Tha Carter IV holds the #1 position on Billboard 's Top 200 album chart for a second week (though the 219,000 copies moved marks a 77% drop in sales ). The only new album to debut in the Top 10 is George Strait's 39th studio offering Here For A Good Time (#3, 91,000), while The Beatles' compilation 1 returns at #4 (60,000) after a remastered edition made its digital debut. [...]

As Rocks Off dives into the top slots of our favorite George Strait songs from his 30-year career - see Nos. 20-16, 15-11 and 10-6 - we are waiting anxiously to see if King George was able to kno... Continue reading "George Strait's Top 20 Songs Of All Time: Nos. 5-1" >

Before we proceed to today's portion of the George Strait countdown - catch up with Nos. 20-16 and 15-11 - here are a few interesting tidbits about King George. It is "fact-finding Friday," aft... Continue reading "George Strait's Top 20 Songs Of All Time: Nos. 10-6" >

Today's installment of our 20 favorite George Strait songs, which we began Wednesday, comes with word that Billboard is projecting his brand-new Here For a Good Time to debut on top of next week'... Continue reading "George Strait's Top 20 Songs Of All Time: Nos. 15-11" >

Tuesday, George Strait released Here For a Good Time, by our count his 39th album overall. Some may call that the Madness of King George, but Rocks Off the Elder and Younger have both heard Good ... Continue reading "George Strait's Top 20 Songs Of All Time: Nos. 20-16" >

Today sees the release of George Strait's Here For a Good Time his 39th release counting compilations, live works and those Christmas discs. As one of Houston's most vocal champions of Strait (w... Continue reading "Here For A Good Time: George Strait Lives It Up On LP No. 39" >

Another tie, another jar of cologne, another set of cuff links, another Father's Day. Do you call your dad, send him a card, buy him some tools? Or how about you dedicate a collection of Father

Round two of American Idol performance night saw the top 2 singers take on songs that were chosen for them by their idols. Scotty McCreery had George Strait pick "Check Yes or No". I thought it was kind of arrogant for the country singer to give Scotty his own song but Scotty did a good job on it. I found it a bit boring though. Carrie Underwood chose "Maybe It was Memphis" for Lauren Alaina. It was a better song choice but Lauren didn't do much to make the song her own. I also think she was trying to get [...]

Today is George Harvey Strait's 59th birthday, and Rocks Off is celebrating by listening to some of the saddest songs he has ever recorded, because it's what we usually do on Wednesday afternoons... Continue reading "Happy Birthday George Strait: His Saddest Songs Ever " >

Rocks Off was so knocked out by our sister blog Hair Balls' gallery of vintage Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo pictures a few days back that we emailed the Rodeo (which starts tomorrow with Clay ... Continue reading "Vintage Rodeo Concert Pictures: Elvis, George Strait And More" >

George Strait earned himself his 83rd top ten song on Billboard's Country Songs chart with his new single "The Breath You Take". That makes the singer just 10 songs away from beating the record set by the late Eddy Arnold back in 1980. 10 songs almost sounds impossible but then again, so does 83. There's a big chance that he can do it. His accomplishments thus far have been ridiculously impressive! Congratulations to George and I wish him all the best in attaining glory. Do you think George can do it or is it a big long shot? I say [...]

My father loves himself some Reba, and growing up it was all Reba...all the time. We wore out her tapes, and then bought new ones. We watched a VHS of her best videos at least twice a week, and although I pretended not to be, I was totally into it. I still sing For My Broken Heart out of nowhere. It's forever in my head. I remember when my family went to see Reba in concert, and I stayed home. What was I thinking? I've been [...]

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