Image Courtesy MCA NashvilleGeorge Strait‘s new concert album, The Cowboy Rides Away: Live from AT&T Stadium, is available now, featuring performances from his final tour stop last June. To make the evening even more special, George invited special guests Kenny Chesney, Jason Aldean, Eric Church, Faith Hill, Alan Jackson, Miranda Lambert, Martina McBride and more to join him singing their favorite songs from his catalog. Having his friends pick which songs they wanted to sing made it easier on George when it came time to put the final set list together.
He says with a laugh, “Once I had that list, that was like 18 songs, then I got to pick all my favorite ones. So, that’s basically what I did. I picked the songs that were my favorites.”
When it came time for Jason Aldean to pick which song he’d sing with Strait, he went with George’s first #1 hit, 1982’s “Fool Hearted Memory.” That was one of the early George Strait hits Jason grew up listening to with his dad.
“I love George Strait from top to bottom, but that was my favorite era was that early ’80s into the mid-’80s kinda thing,” Jason tells ABC News Radio. “Those are songs that I just grew up as a kid listening to, and then I got to be a teenager and the George Strait box set, and I’m still listening to ’em. As an adult, they’re still some of my favorite songs.”
Jason later joined the other stars and George for a sing-along of “All My Ex’s Live in Texas,” and the whole experience was pretty surreal for the Georgia native.
When asked how it felt to be onstage singing ’80s hits with Strait that night, Jason says, “Are you kidding me? Now, I get a chance to get onstage with him and sing some of these things? It was like, that was insane to me.”
Here’s the live album track listing:
“Check Yes or No”
“Love Bug” (with Vince Gill)
“Fool Hearted Memory” (with Jason Aldean)
“Arkansas Dave” (with Bubba Strait)
“Cowboys Like Us” (with Eric Church)
“That’s What Breaking Hearts Do”
“Marina Del Rey”
“Here for a Good Time” (with Sheryl Crow)
“I Can Still Make Cheyenne”
“Jackson” (with Martina McBride)
“A Showman’s Life” (with Faith Hill)
“Murder on Music Row” (with Alan Jackson)
“The Chair”
“Give It All We Got Tonight”
“Run” (with Miranda Lambert)
“I’ll Always Remember You”
“Ocean Front Property” (with Kenny Chesney)
“Troubadour”
“All My Ex’s Live in Texas” (with Jason Aldean, Ray Benson, Kenny Chesney, Eric Church, Vince Gill, Sheryl Crow, Faith Hill, Alan Jackson, Miranda Lambert, Martina McBride)
“The Cowboy Rides Away”
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