In this week's episode we're featuring another ultra-consistent album from George Strait: "Beyond The Blue Neon" (1989). Over Strait's career (especially in his 80s and 90s heyday) his output was dizzyingly reliable. Just enough modernity in it's production to appeal to country radio but music stubbornly rooted in Strait's Texas country heritage. That's what you got. And fans loved it, helping Strait move over fifty million records in his first twenty years alone. Johnny Gimble was dragging the bow on fiddle on most all of George Strait's hits between 1983 through the early 90s, and he's in his element on "Beyond The Blue Neon". "Neon" has a distinct western swing flavour which suits Gimble (a former Texas Playboy) down to a T. Something about the clean-cut Strait leaning up against a pool table and the title track's lyric "a hole in the wall from some free for all" (as if King George would ever get into a fight) seems incongruous but highlights are plentiful: the cleverly worded "Hollywood Squares" swings right into "Ace In The Hole" and several years before Diamond Rio hit with it, "Oh Me, Oh My Sweet Baby" is given the sterling Strait treatment.
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Kitty Wells & Red Foley - Together Again
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Moe Bandy - Motel Matches
Rex Allen, Jr. - Ridin' High
Daryle Singletary - Ain't It The Truth
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Vern Gosdin - Out Of My Heart
Little Darlin Records b/w The Homesteaders - A New Frontier
Johnny Bond - The Very Best Of Johnny Bond
David Houston - Where Love Used To Live/My Woman's Good To Me
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Al Dean & The Allstars - From Texas To Nashville
Rose Maddox - Reckless Love & Bold Adventure
Merlin Gene - People, Places & Things
Conway Twitty - Play, Guitar Play
Merle Haggard - Blue Jungle
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