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George Strait

Poteet, TX

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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

291 location references across 73 songs

Songs & Places

Stars on the Water
Louisiana Louisiana bayous, LA Beaumont, TX Biloxi, MS Mobile, AL Gulf Coast
"Down in Louisiana bayous by and by"
Amarillo by Morning
Amarillo, TX San Antonio, TX Texas Houston, TX Santa Fe, NM
"Amarillo by morning, up from San Antone"
Take Me to Texas
La Porte, TX Rio Grande, TX San Antonio, TX central texas texas gulf coast, TX Dallas, TX Fort Worth, TX Houston, TX Laredo, TX Galveston, TX Austin, TX Abilene, TX Texas Gulf of Mexico, TX
"Where a pride rose from the ashes of San Jacinto"
Friday Night Fever
Dallas, TX
"Watching Dallas on TV"
She Told Me So
Gulf of Mexico
"Icebergs in the Gulf of Mexico"
Ocean Front Property
Arizona 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 A1A, FL Florida Land of Corona, FL palm trees sway, FL White beaches, FL palm_trees_fl, FL
"I'm going MIA Down in MIA"
West Texas Town
West Texas Amarillo, TX Texas Texas Panhandle, TX Big Spring, TX Plainview, TX Lake City, TN
"Little west Texas Town"
Some Nights
Austin, TX Fort Worth, TX Caliche dirt, TX
"Towards Austin, and I lost it"
Carrying Your Love with Me
West Virginia Tennessee
"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
Texas Tennessee Texarkana, TX Abilene, TX Galveston, TX Temple, TX Frio River, TX
"All my exes live in Texas"
All My Ex's Live in Texas
Galveston, TX Temple, TX Texarkana, TX Tennessee Texas
"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 Temple, TX Utopia, TX Uvalde, TX Vanderpool, TX
Tell Me Something Bad About Tulsa
Tulsa, OK Oklahoma
"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
Pony Express Wild, Wild West
"Like a pony express in the wild, wild west"
Dance Time in Texas
Texas
"It's dance time in Texas and we're striking up the band"
Amarillo By Morning (Live)
Amarillo, TX
How ’Bout Them Cowgirls
Rio Grande, TX Yellowstone National Park, WY Niagara Falls, NY Las Vegas, NV Key Biscayne, FL Chicago, IL Bangor, ME Steamboat Springs, CO Abilene, TX Northern Plains, SD Cowgirls, TX Abilene, KS Northern Plains
"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 New York Rio Grande Valley, TX Yellowstone National Park, WY
"Baling hay outside Abilene"
Give It Away
San Francisco, CA
"That night in Frisco Bay"
Down Louisiana Way
Louisiana Chicago, IL San Francisco, CA Whiskey Bay, LA Los Angeles, CA
"I'm going down Louisiana way"
Marina Del Rey
Los Angeles, CA Tennessee Marina Del Rey, CA
"We said good-bye in Marina Del Rey"
The Seashores of Old Mexico
Tucson, AZ Pima County, AZ Santa Cruz County, AZ Cochise County, AZ Yuma County, AZ Mexico, MO Durango, CO US-Mexico Border
"I left, out of Tucson, with no destination in mind"
Cowboys and Dreamers
West Texas Fort Worth, TX west texas
"We like our big skies, our West Texas blue eyes until they cry in the rain"
Cow Town
Fort Worth, TX Texas
"To a place in Texas called Cow Town"
I Can Still Make Cheyenne
Cheyenne, WY Wyoming
"if I hurry I can still make Cheyenne"
Blame It on Mexico
San Francisco, CA Del Rio, TX US-Mexico Border
"I told a 'Frisco girl I'd come for freedom"
Adalida
Cajun queen, LA bayou, LA Lake Pontchartrain, 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 Heartland
"And Opry music on a Saturday night"
Deep in the Heart of Texas
Texas The prairie, TX Fort Worth, TX
"Deep in the heart of Texas"
That’s My Kind of Woman
Texas The American West
"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
Arizona Sedona, AZ Texas Santa Fe, NM Aransas Bay, TX
"Rolled all the way through Arizona"
Somewhere Down in Texas
Texas Texas highway, TX
"I'll be somewhere down in Texas"
Heartland
Nashville, TN Heartland
"Opry music on a Saturday night"
Brothers of the Highway
Detroit, MI North Carolina South Carolina 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
West Texas
"Rounding up strays in, this ole; West Texas dust"
All My Ex’s Live In Texas (Live 2014)
Texas Tennessee Texarkana, TX Abilene, TX Galveston, TX Temple, TX Frio River, TX
"All my ex's live in Texas"
Baby Blue
Colorado
"Baby blue like the Colorado skies"
I Can’t See Texas from Here
Texas Tennessee
"I can't see Texas from here"
I Can't See Texas From Here
Tennessee Texas
"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
Texas
"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
California Mississippi 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
Texas San Antonio, TX Dallas, TX Abbott, TX Rio Grande, TX Fort Worth, TX Austin, TX Tennessee
"If it wasn't for Texas"
All My Exs Live In Texas
Oklahoma
"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]
Texas
Big Ball's In Cowtown (feat. Asleep at the Wheel)
Fort Worth, TX
"Big ball's in Cowtown"
Here for a Good Time
Appalachia, NC Appalachia, WV Appalachia, KY Appalachia, TN Appalachia, VA Georgia Kentucky North Carolina South Carolina Tennessee West Virginia
"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
Abilene, TX Galveston, TX Pearsall, TX Temple, TX Texarkana, TX
Ocean Front Property (Edit)
Arizona San Francisco, CA
"I've got some ocean front property in Arizona"
Run (Edit)
Dallas, TX
"Leave Dallas in the dust"
Lone Star Blues
San Angelo, TX El Paso, TX North Texas South Texas East Texas West Texas Texas Cut and Shoot, TX Houston, TX Seattle, WA Fort Worth, TX
"At a truck stop in San Angelo"

Rivers & Roads in Song Nearby

San Antonio River 2 Interstate 35 43 Interstate 10 36 US Route 90 9 Chisholm Trail 8 Frio River 13

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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