Carrying Your Love With Me

Sound DNA

• Folk
• Singer-Songwriter

• warm
• earnest
• southern

About

While it doesn’t quite have the impact of the previous year’s <i>Blue Clear Sky</i>, <i>Carrying Your Love With Me</i> displays George Strait’s ability to deliver a diverse, quality collection of songs even as he approaches his 20th year of recording. “Carrying Your Love With Me,” “She’ll Leave Your With a Smile,” and “Today My World Slipped Away” combine emotional climaxes with catchy choruses, proving that Strait is a master of the modern country ballad. “Won’t You Come Home (And Talk to a Stranger)” and “That’s Me (Every Chance I Get)” are perfectly crafted and resolutely old-school slices of honky-tonk, while the splendid “I’ve Got A Funny Feeling” is the kind of song that makes you wish Strait would make an all-bluegrass album. As usual, the magic isn’t only in the material, but how it’s delivered. Every song rings with a maximum of conviction and sincerity, yet everything Strait does has a low-key, easygoing air about it. The secret to <i>Carrying Your Love With Me</i>, and Strait’s career in general, is his ability to remain humble and his refusal to sing any song he doesn’t believe with his whole being.

via Apple Music

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