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George Strait

Poteet, TX

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country Popularity: 75 Popular Division

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Region: South Texas Conference: Texas Regional Rank: #5

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About George Strait

A true icon of country music, George Strait hails from the South Texas town of Poteet, in Atascosa County, where his roots run deep. Before dominating the airwaves, Strait pursued agriculture, a testament to his connection to the land. That authenticity resonates throughout his music, solidifying his place as "King George" to generations of fans. His debut single, "Unwound," launched his career in 1981, and he never looked back, eventually setting a record with 44 number-one hits on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart.

Strait's music often reflects his Texan heritage, with songs like "All My Ex's Live in Texas" and "Amarillo by Morning" becoming anthems of the Lone Star State. Despite his massive success, including a record-breaking concert attendance of 110,905 fans at Texas A&M's Kyle Field in 2024, Strait remains grounded, preferring to let his music speak for itself. He continues to live on his Texas ranch, embodying the cowboy spirit that has made him a beloved figure in country music.

Did You Know

  • • George Strait eloped to Mexico with his high school sweetheart, Norma, in 1971.
  • • His debut single, "Unwound," reached #6 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in 1981.
  • • Strait initially pursued agriculture before his music career took off.
  • • He holds the record for most number-one hits on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart with 44.
  • • Strait's 2014 'The Cowboy Rides Away Tour' grossed over $99 million.
  • • He starred in the 1992 film 'Pure Country', playing a fictionalized version of himself.
  • • Strait performed in the US Army while stationed at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.
  • • He often wore Wrangler jeans and cowboy boots, boosting their popularity.
  • • Strait owns a ranch in Texas where he enjoys roping and riding horses.
  • • He rarely gives interviews, preferring his music to speak for itself.
  • • His first band was a rock and roll garage band called the Stoics, inspired by the Beatles.
  • • His hit "Unwound" was originally pitched to Johnny Paycheck — "he was in jail, so they gave it to me."
  • • MCA Records signed him for just one single — if it flopped, there would be no album.
  • • He has turned down Grand Ole Opry membership because he doesn't want to travel to Nashville to perform.
  • • Without his cowboy hat, he goes unrecognized — a woman in Key West chatted with a shirtless Strait without knowing who he was.
  • • Set the US concert attendance record with 110,905 fans at Texas A&M's Kyle Field in June 2024.
  • • Holds the all-time record with 60 #1 hits — more than any artist in history across all genres.
  • • His record label wanted him to ditch the cowboy hat when he signed — he refused.

Locations in Lyrics

164 location references across 70 songs

Songs & Places

Stars on the Water
, LA Beaumont, TX Biloxi, MS Mobile, AL
"Down in Louisiana bayous by and by"
Amarillo by Morning
Amarillo, TX San Antonio, TX , TX Houston, TX Santa Fe, NM
"Amarillo by morning, up from San Antone"
Take Me to Texas
, TX La Porte, TX San Antonio, TX Dallas, TX Fort Worth, TX Houston, TX Laredo, TX Galveston, TX Austin, TX Abilene, TX
"Take me to Texas Where I was born, where I was raised, so when I die"
Friday Night Fever
Dallas, TX
"Watching Dallas on TV"
She Told Me So
"Icebergs in the Gulf of Mexico"
Ocean Front Property
, AZ San Francisco, CA
"I got some ocean front property in Arizona"
Rockin’ in the Arms of Your Memory
San Francisco, CA
"It was San Francisco Silly suits and white ties by the bay"
Rockin' in the Arms of Your Memory
San Francisco, CA San Francisco Bay, CA
"It was San Francisco"
MIA Down In MIA
Miami, FL , FL
"I'm going MIA Down in MIA"
West Texas Town
, TX Amarillo, TX Big Spring, TX Plainview, TX Lake City, TN
"Little west Texas Town"
Some Nights
Austin, TX Fort Worth, TX , TX
"Towards Austin, and I lost it"
Carrying Your Love with Me
, WV , TN
"West Virginia down to Tennessee"
Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind
Fort Worth, TX Dallas, TX
"Does Fort Worth ever cross your mind?"
All My Ex’s Live in Texas
, TX , TN Texarkana, TX Abilene, TX Galveston, TX Temple, TX
"All my exes live in Texas"
All My Ex's Live in Texas
Galveston, TX Temple, TX Texarkana, TX , TN , TX
"Allison's in Galveston"
all my ex's live in texas
Abilene, TX Bandera, TX Barksdale, TX Camp Wood, TX Concan, TX D'Hanis, TX Helotes, TX Hondo, TX Knippa, TX Lacoste, TX Leakey, TX Medina, TX Rio Frio, TX Sabinal, TX Temples, TX Utopia, TX Uvalde, TX Vanderpool, TX
Tell Me Something Bad About Tulsa
Tulsa, OK , OK
"Tell me something bad about Tulsa"
Troubadour
Liberty, MO St. Joseph, MO
"Sometimes I feel like Jesse James"
Big Ball’s in Cowtown
Fort Worth, TX
"Big ball's in Cowtown"
Overnight Male
"Like a pony express in the wild, wild west"
Dance Time in Texas
, TX
"It's dance time in Texas and we're striking up the band"
Amarillo By Morning (Live)
Amarillo, TX
How ’Bout Them Cowgirls
, TX , WY Niagara Falls, NY Las Vegas, NV Key Biscayne, FL Chicago, IL Bangor, ME Steamboat Springs, CO Abilene, TX , SD
"I felt the rush of the Rio Grande"
How 'Bout Them Cowgirls
Abilene, TX Bangor, ME Chicago, IL Key Biscayne, FL Las Vegas, NV Steamboat Springs, CO , NY , TX , WY
"Baling hay outside Abilene"
Give It Away
San Francisco, CA
"That night in Frisco Bay"
Down Louisiana Way
, LA Chicago, IL San Francisco, CA Los Angeles, CA
"I'm going down Louisiana way"
Marina Del Rey
Los Angeles, CA , TN
"We said good-bye in Marina Del Rey"
The Seashores of Old Mexico
Tucson, AZ , AZ Mexico, MO Durango, CO
"I left, out of Tucson, with no destination in mind"
Cowboys and Dreamers
, TX Fort Worth, TX
"We like our big skies, our West Texas blue eyes until they cry in the rain"
Cow Town
Fort Worth, TX , TX
"To a place in Texas called Cow Town"
I Can Still Make Cheyenne
Cheyenne, WY , WY
"if I hurry I can still make Cheyenne"
Blame It on Mexico
San Francisco, CA Del Rio, TX
"I told a 'Frisco girl I'd come for freedom"
Adalida
, LA Thibodaux, LA
"Adalida, pretty little Cajun queen"
If You Can Do Anything Else
Houston, TX Pensacola, FL New York City, NY Seattle, WA San Diego, CA Savannah, GA
"Would you like to live in Houston, where the cowboys come to town?"
Without You Here
Miami, FL
"Her ship set sail from the docks of Miami"
Lefty’s Gone
Dallas, TX Corsicana, TX El Dorado, AR Nashville, TN
"He played the fair in Dallas"
Lefty's Gone
Dallas, TX
"He played the fair in Dallas"
Heartland (Main Title Sequence)
Nashville, TN
"And Opry music on a Saturday night"
Deep in the Heart of Texas
, TX
"Deep in the heart of Texas"
That’s My Kind of Woman
, TX
"likes Gus from Lonesome Dove"
that's my kind of woman
Austin, TX Denver, CO Dodge City, KS Eagle Pass, TX Fort Worth, TX Miles City, MT Ogalla, NE San Antonio, TX
Blue Water
, AZ Sedona, AZ , TX Santa Fe, NM
"Rolled all the way through Arizona"
Somewhere Down in Texas
, TX
"I'll be somewhere down in Texas"
Heartland
Nashville, TN
"Opry music on a Saturday night"
Brothers of the Highway
Detroit, MI , NC , SC Denver, CO Baton Rouge, LA Pittsburgh, PA Portland, OR San Diego, CA Tallahassee, FL Boston, MA Bangor, ME Austin, TX
"That Detroit diesel pirate ship goes blowing out again"
If Heartaches Were Horses
, TX
"Rounding up strays in, this ole; West Texas dust"
All My Ex’s Live In Texas (Live 2014)
, TX , TN Texarkana, TX Abilene, TX Galveston, TX Temple, TX
"All my ex's live in Texas"
Baby Blue
, CO
"Baby blue like the Colorado skies"
I Can’t See Texas from Here
, TX , TN
"I can't see Texas from here"
I Can't See Texas From Here
, TN , TX
"I can't say I don't like Tennessee"
She Let Herself Go
Las Vegas, NV Honolulu, HI New York City, NY
"To Vegas once, then to Honolulu"
Honky Tonk Crazy
, TX
"The cowboy band's rendition of Texas waltz"
Home in San Antone
San Antonio, TX
"Home in San Antone"
Murder on Music Row
Nashville, TN Montgomery, AL Georgiana, AL Bakersfield, CA Beaumont, TX
"Down on Music Row"
I Ain’t Never Seen No One Like You
, CA , MS Denver, CO
"I done been to California"
I Ain't Never Seen No One Like You
Denver, CO
"I even knew some twins in Denver"
I Ain’t Her Cowboy Anymore
Denver, CO Dallas, TX Casper, WY
"We met in Denver"
I Ain't Her Cowboy Anymore
Denver, CO
"We met in Denver"
Run
Dallas, TX Detroit, MI
"If there's a plane or a bus leaving Dallas I hope you're on it"
Texas
, TX San Antonio, TX Dallas, TX Abbott, TX Austin, TX Fort Worth, TX , TN
"If it wasn't for Texas"
All My Exs Live In Texas
, OK
"Song about Oklahoma"
All My Ex's Live in Texas (Live at AT&T Stadium; Arlington) [feat. Alan Jackson; Eric Church; Faith Hill; Ray Benson; Jason Aldean; Kenny Chesney; Martina McBride; Miranda Lambert; Sheryl Crow & Vince Gill]
, TX
Big Ball's In Cowtown (feat. Asleep at the Wheel)
Fort Worth, TX
"Big ball's in Cowtown"
Here for a Good Time
Asheville, NC Charleston, WV Harlan, KY Johnson City, TN Wise, VA , GA , KY , NC , SC , TN , WV
"Pour me some moonshine"
Hollywood Squares
Hollywood, CA
"I ought to be on Hollywood squares"
Check Yes or No
Pearsall, TX Poteet, TX
I Cross My Heart
Pearsall, TX Poteet, TX
The Chair
Pearsall, TX Poteet, TX
Write This Down
Pearsall, TX Poteet, TX
all my exes live in texas
Abiliene, TX Galveston, TX Pearsall, TX Temple, TX Texarkana, TX

Rivers & Roads in Song Nearby

Interstate 35 27 Interstate 10 23 US Route 90 6 Chisholm Trail 4 Frio River 8

Connected Places

Poteet, TX Abilene, TX Amarillo, TX Arctic Circle, AK Asheville, NC Austin, TX Bangor, ME Bayou, LA Beaumont, TX Biloxi, MS Caliche dirt (Central Texas), TX Charleston, WV Cheyenne, WY Chicago, IL Cow Town, TX Dallas, TX Del Rio, TX Denver, CO Fort Worth, TX Frisco Bay, CA Galveston, TX Grand Ole Opry, TN Gulf of Mexico, LA Harlan, KY Hollywood, CA Honolulu, HI Houston, TX Johnson City, TN Kearney, MO Key Biscayne, FL La Porte, TX Lake Pontchartrain, LA Laredo, TX Las Vegas, NV Liberty, MO Los Angeles, CA Louisiana Bayous, LA Marina Del Rey, CA Miami, FL Mobile, AL Mobile Bay, AL Mobile Harbor, AL Nashville, TN New York City, NY San Antone, TX San Antonio, TX San Francisco, CA San Francisco Bay, CA Santa Fe, NM Sedona, AZ St. Joseph, MO Steamboat Springs, CO Temple, TX Texarkana, TX Texas, TX The Alamo, TX Thibodaux, LA Tucson, AZ Tulsa, OK West Texas, TX Wise, VA
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