George Strait: Behind ‘Cowboys And Dreamers’
George Strait’s 27th No. 1 Billboard Country album, Cowboys And Dreamers, features 13 new songs, including three already released tracks — “Three Drinks Behind,” “MIA Down in MIA” and “The Little Things” — as well as “Honky Tonk Hall Of Fame” featuring Chris Stapleton, and George’s rendition of Waylon Jennings’ “Waymore’s Blues.”
Strait told us about the title cut of his new alum “Cowboys and Dreamers,” “Here’s a song written by Jesse Joe Dillon, Keith Gaddis, and my son Bubba Strait. It’s called ‘Cowboys and Dreamers,’ and it’s a really cool song.”
He added, “So cool that I thought that I should name the whole album after it. And you know, sometimes I feel like the last of a dying breed trying to find where I fit. That pretty much says it all in ‘Cowboys and Dreamers.’”
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Strait had a big weekend in June (6/15) when he set a record for the largest single ticketed concert in U.S. history and a new record for Texas A&M Kyle Field for a single event with 110,905 fans in attendance.
The show, dubbed “George Strait: The King at Kyle Field,” included special guests Parker McCollum and Catie Offerman.
With energy pulsating throughout the bowl, Strait greeted the record crowd after his second song of the night, “I Got A Car,” taking it all in. He said, “It’s so good to be here with Catie Offerman and Parker McCollum – let’s have another big round of applause for those two. And happy birthday, Parker, my gosh, what a day, what a place to spend your birthday, right?”
George then told the crowd, “We got a lot of songs to play for y’all. What a beautiful night, too, right? We got some new stuff that we’re gonna do also, we got a new album … out in September called Cowboys And Dreamers, so we got some stuff from that we’re gonna play from that for you also, and we got a really special thing we’re gonna do for you, so alright, what are we here for?!”
He added with a smile, “Man, I wanna whoop so bad, but you can’t whoop if you’re not/you don’t go to school here? (pausing) Can I whoop, one time, just once? ‘Whoop!'” to which the crowd erupted. “I had to do it – my son said it’s okay if I did that, he graduated from A&M…'”
