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It Just Comes Natural

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About It Just Comes Natural

Product Description This year marks the 25th anniversary of George Straits first MCA Nashville album release Strait Country (1981). Now after 25 years of making timeless country music, selling over 62 million albums and scoring more solo #1 singles than any other recording artist in history, it is safe to say George isn't satisfied yet. George Strait's new album It Just Comes Natural is packed with 15 Strait-worthy tracks including the title track It Just Comes Natural and the soaring first single Give It Away. After the first week of release to radio, the single Give It Away was crowned the Number One most added on R&R and Billboard. The single has been scorching up the charts and reached Top 20 in only 4 weeks, making it Strait's fastest moving single of his career. Amazon.com When the announcement came that George Strait was to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, there were those who thought it was premature. After all, Strait is only in his early 50s, and with 53 #1s, more than anyone else in Nashville history, he is still an active working artist, not the sort who sits back on a million-acre ranch remembering when. But one spin through It Just Comes Natural and it's obvious why the quiet Texan deserved his induction now. He simply has no mainstream peer, for either his consistency on the charts or his continuing to raise the bar with his confident, nuanced performance. Here, on an album recorded in Key West, Strait sounds even more relaxed than usual, as if he took more time to live with the songs--15 in all--before he recorded them. Throughout, he amply demonstrates his ability to choose material that pushes the country genre beyond its core themes of God, family, and patriotism while still staying traditional. So many of the songs catch one off guard, either because of their different subject matter (the way the lyric of "Come on Joe" gradually tells us the dead never really leave the living) or in their sophisticated approach to a routine topic (the head-spinning recognition of an old flame in Bruce Robison's "Wrapped"). Then there's the artistry with which producer Tony Brown's handpicked studio cats elevate an already great song even higher (a sizzling cover of Guy Clark's folk/honky-tonk/Western swing classic "Texas Cookin'"). Twenty-five years after his recording debut, Strait is still as crisp as the crease in his Wranglers. Yet the leader of the Ace in the Hole band has yet another card up his freshly starched sleeve. The man who doesn't talk in concert and rarely speaks to reporters leads off with "Give It Away," a divorce-and-damage saga set off by--surprise--a recitation! --Alanna Nash Review He continues to make such consistent quality look easy. -- USA Today - 10/3/06 - 3 Stars! If ever there was a natural in country music, it's Strait. -- People Magazine - 10/25/06 - 4 STARS Strait only sometimes gets the girl.....but he always gets the hit. -- Entertainment Weekly - B+ From the Artist "I've always just done the music that I felt comfortable doing," says Strait. "I don't really think that everything that I've done has been really hard-core traditional - there's definitely songs that you couldn't classify that way. On this album, I wouldn't call the title cut a traditional country song, but it's a great song." About the Artist George Strait knows those charts well. His 1981 debut single "Unwound" was a Top 10 hit - and he has had at least one single hit the Top 10 every year since (including, as his 2004 box set was titled, 50 Number One Hits). His statistics are nothing short of astonishing, with more than 62 million albums sold in his career. He has 13 multi-Platinum, 30 Platinum and 33 Gold albums - more Gold albums than any other artist in Country Music, which ties him with no less than Frank Sinatra in eighth place for the most Gold albums of any artist in any musical genre. In addition, Strait has received 16 CMA Awards, including multiple wins as Entertainer of the Yea