Best Of George Strait
For The Acoustic

I Gotta Get To You was written by three writers in Nashville, this song hails from the 2010 George Strait album entitled "Twang".

The song reached #3 on the Billboard US Country Chart also at the time when his song Twang was also on the charts.

Some real George Strait pure country right here.

I Hate Everything was the lead single form the 2004 George Strait album "50 Number Ones" and went on to peak at #1 on the US Country charts.

The song was also a #3 in Canada.

I Just Wanna Dance With You was a John Prine and Roger Cook song and was recorded by George Strait for his album One Step At A Time, which was released in 1998.

George scored another #1 hit with this song which John Prine recorded back in 1986 and it also became a hit in 1992 for Daniel O'Donnell in the UK reaching #20.

If It Wasn't For Texas hails from the 2005 album Somewhere Down In Texas and this particular song was written by Guy Clark.

What was confusing me is that on the album the song is simply called "Texas" and the writers listed are Steven Dale Jones and Phillip White. So I'm not really sure about the actual song title or if Guy Clark wrote this one.

It Ain't Cool is another Dean Dillon collaboration which resulted in this one from 1986 and another #1 hit song. Only two singles were released from the album #7 and this was his 9th number one at the time.

Country artist Kenny Chesney also released a version in 2007 but only as a B-Side to his single Never Wanted Nothing More.

Living For The Night was co-written by George Strait and his son Bubba with Nashville writer Dean Dillon for the 2009 album Twang. The song was the lead single from that album.

There was also a music video for the song showing George performing it in concert. The song eventually made it to the #2 position in the U and #4 in Canada.

Love Without End Amen came out in 1990 from the "Livin' It Up" album. Of all the George Strait hit songs over the years, most spent only one week at the top of the country charts. But this one spend a whopping 5 weeks tie-ing a record set by Dolly Parton 13 years earlier in 1977.

The song also reached #1 in Canada.

Nobody In His Right Mind was written and recorded by Dean Dillon himself and released in 1980, peaking at #25.

But George Strait added his magic to the song in 1986 and took it to #1 in the US and Canada. The song is found on the #7 album. Keith Whitley recorded a version in 1985, but never released is as a single.

Ocean Front Property was co-written by Dean Dillon in 1987 and scored another #1 hit for George Strait in both the US and Canada. It was also the name of the album which set a record at the time being the first Country album to debut at #1 on Billboards Top Country Albums chart. 

Of course Arizona is a landlocked state with no body of water next to it so the writers used is as a play on words with the line "Ocean front property in Arizona, from my front porch you can see the sea."

Seashores Of Old Mexico was written by Merle Haggard who recorded his version in 1974 and again with Willie nelson in 1987.

Freddy Weller and Hank Snow also did covers in the 1970's. 

The Best Day was written by Dean Dillon and Carson Chamberlain and was a #1 hit back in 2000. 

The song can be found on the album Latest Greatest Straitest Hits.