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Somewhere Down in Texas

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Released
  
June 28, 2005

Length
  
39:44

Artist
  
George Strait

Genre
  
Country music

Recorded
  
2004-05

Label
  
MCA Nashville

Release date
  
28 June 2005

Producers
  
Tony Brown, George Strait

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Studio
  
OceanWay; Nashville and others

Somewhere Down in Texas (2005)
  
It Just Comes Natural (2006)

Nominations
  
Country Music Association Award for Album of the Year

Similar
  
George Strait albums, Country music albums

George strait if the whole world was a honky tonk


Somewhere Down in Texas is the twenty-third studio album by American country music singer George Strait. This album was released on June 28, 2005 on the MCA Nashville Records label. This album was certified platinum and peaked at #1 on the Billboard 200. Singles released from it were, in order: "You'll Be There", which peaked at #4 on Hot Country Songs; "She Let Herself Go", which became Strait's 40th Billboard Number One hit on the country charts; and a cover of Merle Haggard's "The Seashores of Old Mexico", which peaked at #11. "Texas" also charted at #35 on Hot Country Songs from unsolicited airplay.

Contents

The album's titled track was played in a video retrospective to former wrestler Stone Cold Steve Austin that appeared as the last chapter of the same name in the DVD, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin: The Bottom Line on the Most Popular Superstar of All Time.

In 2005, the Country Music Association named "Good News, Bad News" the musical event of the year.

George strait somewhere down in texas


Personnel

  • Eddie Bayers – drums
  • Stuart Duncan – fiddle, mandolin
  • Paul Franklin – pedal steel guitar
  • Steve Gibson – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
  • Wes Hightower – background vocals
  • Brent Mason – electric guitar on all tracks except "The Seashores of Old Mexico", nylon string guitar on "The Seashores of Old Mexico"
  • Steve Nathan – Hammond organ, Wurlitzer, piano
  • Michael Rhodes – bass guitar on "The Seashores of Old Mexico"
  • Matt Rollings – piano, synthesizer
  • Marty Slayton – background vocals
  • George Strait – lead vocals, background vocals
  • Bryan Sutton – acoustic guitar, gut string guitar
  • Lee Ann Womack – duet vocals on "Good News, Bad News"
  • Casey Wood – percussion
  • Glenn Worf – upright bass on "High Tone Woman", bass guitar on all other tracks except "The Seashores of Old Mexico"
  • Additional background vocals on "You'll Be There" by Jaime Babbitt, Robert Bailey, Lisa Cochran, Vicki Hampton, Chris Rodriguez, Casey Wood.

    Strings on tracks 2, 3, 4, and 6 performed by the Nashville String Machine. Arranged and conducted by Bergen White and contracted by Carl Gorodetzky.

    Songs

    1If the Whole World Was a Honky Tonk4:08
    2Somewhere Down in Texas3:55
    3The Seashores of Old Mexico4:11

    References

    Somewhere Down in Texas Wikipedia