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Troubadour | 
| Artist: George Strait
Label: Mca Nashville
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
Buy Used: $8.64
You Save: $5.34 (38%)
Rating:  65 reviews
Sales Rank: 181
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 001082602
UPC: 602517628540
EAN: 0602517628540
ASIN: B0013LPSAM
Release Date: April 1, 2008
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Condition: Complete with original disc(s), case, and artwork. In stock and ships today! Case has some minor damage/
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| Tracks:
| • | Troubadour | | • | It Was Me | | • | Brothers Of The Highway | | • | River Of Love | | • | House Of Cash (Duet with Patty Loveless) | | • | I Saw God Today | | • | Give Me More Time | | • | When You're In Love | | • | Make Her Fall In Love With Me Song | | • | West Texas Town (Duet with Dean Dillon) | | • | House With No Doors | | • | If Heartaches Were Horses |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Well into his third decade at the top, album # 37 for George Strait maintains the consistency and high quality that's marked the vast majority of his work from the start. Like Alan Jackson, he's has always been more comfortable in conventional country fiddle and steel guitar settings, and that's largely where he remains with Troubadour. Even the good-natured, Caribbean feel of "River of Love" is closer to vintage Strait than Jimmy Buffett. The more somber "House of Cash" is a duet with Patty Loveless. It tells the story of the tragic, 2007 fire that took the home of Johnny Cash, and reflects on what could not be obliterated by the flames. Strait reverts to classic, Lone Star State form with "Make Her Fall With Me Song," a honky tonk shuffle in the style of Ray Price or George Jones, while the gorgeous western swing-driven "That West Texas Town" is a duet with Dean Dillon. With Troubadour Strait avoids surprises, if only by virtue of his continuing skill working wonders within a time-honored style. --Rich Kienzle
Album Description
The follow-up CD to George Strait's platinum selling and CMA Album of the Year, IT JUST COMES NATURAL, is TROUBADOUR. George Strait truly is a modern day troubadour - now in his 28th year of making music,George continues to be an artist driven by his passion to make music of the highest quality. TROUBADOUR features the smash single "I Saw God Today".
Album Description
Features duets with Patty Loveless, Dean Dillon. Reviews and ads in Up Country, Country Music People and Maverick.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 60 more reviews...
 Great Price! January 7, 2009
Michelle (Ridgely, MD USA)
This was a great deal. Cheaper than any prices I found in store at the time, and didn't have to go anywhere to get it.
 George Strait, Troubador January 6, 2009
Rose Mary Ward
I enjoyed River of Love and Troubador, some of the other songs were
not up to his standards.
GREAT CD December 24, 2008
Flora Beard (Rocky Ford, GA USA)
Every song on this CD is wonderful, as all of George's songs are!!! He is just like a great wine- he just gets better with time!! ORDER & ENJOY!!!!
 Another winning set from country music's Mr. Consistency December 20, 2008
hyperbolium (Earth, USA)
"Consistent" would be an insult to an artist of Strait's caliber if it were used euphemistically to mean "mediocre," but in Strait's case, it means consistently good. Very good. Few have waxed as listenable an album catalog as Strait, filled out with hit singles and deep album tracks, and punctuated by exceptional entries like 1989's Beyond the Blue Neon and 2003's Honkytonkville. His unerring ear for material and the enthusiasm he's brought to recording on a nearly annual basis since 1981 (this is his twenty-eighth album in twenty-eight years!) is simply breathtaking. Even more impressive is that Strait's kept true to his own artistic vision as trends came and went, yet his work has never become repetitious or perfunctory. His latest album extends the streak with a thoughtful collection of new songs whose introspective themes play well to Strait's growing stature as an elder statesman, and whose light productions closely fit his easy musical style.
Strait's comfort in his own skin is both inspirational and infectious. The album's title track finds the singer laboring against the changes of middle-age, but realizing the fires that fueled his youth still burn within him today. A singer of lesser talent or personal experience couldn't hope to convey the nostalgia, melancholy, grit, resignation and pride woven together in the lyric. At the same time, Strait can distill simple moments of discovery, such as found in "I Saw God Today," into deep faith, and he finds meaningful discovery from a theme that could have been nothing more than treacle. Strait knows his way around pain, too, sad and broken for "If Heartaches Were Horses" and solemn for the three desperate scenes of "Give Me More Time."
Even the album's most straight-forward songs, like the waltzing love song "It Was Me," the two-stepping "Brothers of the Highway," and the breezy "River of Love" draw you in with warmth and joyousness. Producer Tony Brown shows just how effective Nashville A-list players can be, weaving their expert playing into organic arrangements that avoid the modern cliches demanded by commercial radio. The results sound like Nashville without sounding like Nashville-begging-for-airplay - just check out quality of the guitar, steel and piano on the honky-tonk "Make Her Fall in Love With Me Song" or the fiddle and Western Swing of "West Texas Town." There's a subtle evolution heard throughout this album as George Strait takes stock, and it gives an encouraging sense of just how gracefully he'll age as an artist. [2008 hyperbolium dot com]
The Best December 18, 2008
Billie Mcdonald (Texas)
What can I say....it's George.
Troubadour is right up there in the top albums he has released.
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