Somewhere Down in Texas

Somewhere Down in Texas
Studio album by George Strait
Released	June 28, 2005
Recorded	2004–05
Studio	OceanWay; Nashville and others
Genre	Country
Length	39:44
Label	MCA Nashville
Producer	Tony Brown George Strait
George Strait chronology
50 Number Ones (2004) Somewhere Down in Texas (2005) It Just Comes Natural (2006)
Singles from Somewhere Down in Texas
"You'll Be There" Released: March 28, 2005 "She Let Herself Go" Released: September 6, 2005 "The Seashores of Old Mexico" Released: February 13, 2006

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	(68/100)[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
About.com	[2]
Allmusic	[3]
The Austin Chronicle	[4]
Chicago Tribune	(positive)[5]
Entertainment Weekly	B+[6]
The New York Times	(average)[1]
People	[7]
Plugged In	(positive)[8]
Robert Christgau	[9]
Stylus Magazine	D+[10]

Somewhere Down in Texas is the twenty-third studio album by American country music singer George Strait. This album was released on June 28, 2005 on the MCA Nashville Records label. This album was certified platinum and peaked at #1 on the Billboard 200. Singles released from it were, in order: "You'll Be There", which peaked at #4 on Hot Country Songs; "She Let Herself Go", which became Strait's 40th Billboard Number One hit on the country charts; and a cover of Merle Haggard's "The Seashores of Old Mexico", which peaked at #11. "Texas" also charted at #35 on Hot Country Songs from unsolicited airplay.

The album's titled track was played in a video retrospective to former wrestler Stone Cold Steve Austin that appeared as the last chapter of the same name in the DVD, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin: The Bottom Line on the Most Popular Superstar of All Time.

In 2005, the Country Music Association named "Good News, Bad News" the musical event of the year.^[11]

Track listing[]

Personnel[]

• Eddie Bayers – drums (all tracks)
• Stuart Duncan – fiddle (all tracks except 4), mandolin (tracks 3,4)
• Paul Franklin – pedal steel guitar (all tracks)
• Steve Gibson – acoustic guitar (tracks 1,8,10,11), electric guitar (all tracks except 1,10,11)
• Wes Hightower – background vocals (all tracks except 3,4,6)
• Brent Mason – acoustic guitar (track 6), electric guitar on (all tracks except 3,6,9), nylon string guitar (track 3)
• Steve Nathan – piano (track 7) Hammond B-3 organ (tracks 1,2,5,8,9,10,11), Wurlitzer (track 3)
• Michael Rhodes – bass guitar (track 3)
• Matt Rollings – piano (all tracks except 7 and 9), synthesizer (track 7)
• Marty Slayton – background vocals (all tracks except 3,4,6)
• George Strait – lead vocals (all tracks), background vocals (track 3)
• Bryan Sutton – acoustic guitar (all tracks except 6), gut string guitar (track 6)
• Lee Ann Womack – duet vocals (track 6)
• Casey Wood – percussion (track 4)
• Glenn Worf – bass guitar (all tracks except 3 and 5), upright bass (track 5)

Additional background vocals on "You'll Be There" by Jaime Babbitt, Robert Bailey, Lisa Cochran, Vicki Hampton, Chris Rodriguez, Casey Wood.

Strings on tracks 2, 3, 4, and 6 performed by the Nashville String Machine. Arranged and conducted by Bergen White and contracted by Carl Gorodetzky.

Charts[]

References[]

External links[]

• Somewhere Down in Texas at Metacritic