Troubadour

George Strait

Track List

1. Troubadour
2. It Was Me
3. Brothers Of The Highway
4. River Of Love
5. House Of Cash
6. I Saw God Today
7. Give Me More Time
8. When You're In Love
9. Make Her Fall In Love With Me Song
10. West Texas Town
11. House With No Doors
12. If Heartaches Were Horses

Entertainment Weekly says:
Even when the themes of the songs are hackneyed, Strait and his usual co-producer, Tony Brown, have an unerring sense for picking material by writers who have a graceful and covertly poetic way of turning a phrase. The project's initial single, ''I Saw God Today,'' isn't the first or best song ever written about finding the divine in the stuff of corporeal life, but with help from painterly splashes that describe the time on the clock as well as the color of the sunset, the message manages to be affecting anyway. And lest you think Strait is as shameless as some of his contemporaries in sucking up to his audience with purely inspirational material, he counterbalances that uplifting ballad by following it with the almost weirdly fatalistic ''Give Me More Time.'' That one breaks down into three separate lyrical vignettes — one about a farmer facing foreclosure, another about a woman not sure what to do about a marriage proposal, and the third about a young man facing terminal illness — and none of 'em has a happy ending, or any ending at all. Who says they don't write inconclusively somber bummers like they used to?
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