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It Just Comes Natural

It Just Comes Natural is the twenty-fourth studio album by American country music singer George Strait. The album produced Strait's 41st Number One Billboard Hot Country Songs) hit in its lead-off single "Give It Away". Also released from this album were the title track (also #1 on Hot Country Songs), "Wrapped" (#2), and "How 'Bout Them Cowgirls" (#3). The album itself has been certified platinum by the RIAA. "It Just Comes Natural" was nominated for Best Country Album at the 2008 Grammy Awards.

It Just Comes Natural

October 3, 2006 (2006-10-03)

Shrimpboat Sound (Key West, Florida); Starstruck Studios, The Compound and Sound Stage Studios (Nashville, Tennessee).

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George Strait
Tony Brown

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"Give It Away" is the album's first single. Released in mid-2006, this song reached Number One on the Billboard country charts, becoming Strait's 41st Number One hit on that chart, and breaking Conway Twitty's record for the most Billboard Number One hits by a country music artist. Following this song was the title track, his 42nd Number One. "Wrapped" was the third single, and finishing out the releases was "How 'Bout Them Cowgirls".


Three of the album's tracks had been previously recorded by other artists, including one of the singles. "Wrapped" was originally recorded by Bruce Robison on his 1998 album Wrapped, making it the second single of Strait's career that was written and originally recorded by Robison, the first being "Desperately" on his 2003 album Honkytonkville, which was also from the album Wrapped. "She Told Me So" was originally recorded by George Jones on his 1974 album The Grand Tour. "Texas Cookin'" was originally recorded by Guy Clark on his 1976 album of the same name.

– lead vocals

George Strait

Hammond B3 organ (1, 2, 7-10, 12, 14, 15), Wurlitzer electric piano (3, 5), organ (4), synthesizers (6, 11, 13)

Steve Nathan

– acoustic piano (1, 2, 4, 6-11, 13, 14, 15), Hammond B3 organ (3, 5), synthesizers (12)

Matt Rollings

Jeff Taylor – (15)

accordion

– acoustic guitar

Mac McAnally

Steve Gibson – acoustic guitar (1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 11, 12, 14), (6), electric guitars (9, 10, 13, 15)

gut-string guitar

– electric guitars (1-9, 11-15), gut-string guitar (10)

Brent Mason

steel guitar

Paul Franklin

fiddle, mandolin (15)

Stuart Duncan

– bass guitar (1, 3-15), upright bass (2)

Glenn Worf

– drums

Eddie Bayers

– strings (10, 12, 13)

The Nashville String Machine

Bergen White – string arrangements and conductor (10, 12, 13)

Carl Gorodetzky – string contractor (10, 12, 13)

Wes Hightower – backing vocals (1-11, 13, 14, 15)

Marty Slayton – backing vocals (4-11, 13, 14, 15)

– backing vocals (11)

Tony Brown

The musicians (except Jeff Taylor) – backing vocals (11)