Right Or Wrong

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From the silky ballad “You Look So Good In Love” to the reverent reading of Merle Haggard’s “Our Paths May Never Cross,” <i>Right or Wrong</i> is the first album that showed the breadth of George Strait’s influences. He reaches all the way back to 1921 for the title track, a jazz ballad that Bob Wills later adapted for his Texas Playboys. Another page of country music history is represented with “I’m Satisfied With You,” an old chestnut written by Nashville songwriting icon Fred Rose. But rather than paint himself as some arch-traditionalist, Strait also includes songs that nod to his peers. The uptempo boogie of “Every Time It Rains (Lord Don’t it Pour)” is reminiscent of Ronnie Milsap, while “A Little Heaven’s Rubbing Off On Me” recalls the keening swing of hardscrabble honky-tonker Gary Stewart. For all his influences, most of <i>Right or Wrong</i> just sounds like Strait. “You’re the Cloud I’m On (When I’m High)” masterfully turns a self-loathing drinking song into a disarming declaration of love — proof that one of country music’s reigning beer hall maestros is also one of its last true romantics.

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