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Somewhere Down in Texas

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.

Somewhere Down in Texas

June 28, 2005

2004–05

Ocean Way Nashville, Blackbird Studios, Loud Recording, Emerald Sound Studios, Starstruck Studios and The Tracking Room (Nashville, Tennessee).

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Tony Brown
George Strait

The album's titled track was played in a video retrospective to former professional 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]

– lead vocals, backing vocals (3)

George Strait

Hammond B3 organ (1, 2, 5, 8-11), Wurlitzer electric piano (3), acoustic piano (7)

Steve Nathan

– acoustic piano (1-6, 8, 10, 11), synthesizers (7)

Matt Rollings

Steve Gibson – acoustic guitar (1, 8, 10, 11), electric guitar (2-9)

– electric guitar (1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11), nylon string guitar (3), acoustic guitar (6)

Brent Mason

– acoustic guitar (1-5, 7-11), gut-string guitar (6)

Bryan Sutton

steel guitar

Paul Franklin

fiddle (1, 2, 3, 5-11), mandolin (3, 4)

Stuart Duncan

– bass guitar (1, 2, 4, 6-11), upright bass (5)

Glenn Worf

– bass guitar (3)

Michael Rhodes

– drums

Eddie Bayers

Casey Wood – percussion (4)

– strings (2, 3, 4, 6)

The Nashville String Machine

Bergen White – string arrangements and conductor (2, 3, 4, 6)

Carl Gorodetzky – string contractor (2, 3, 4, 6)

Wes Hightower – backing vocals (1, 2, 5, 7-11)

Marty Slayton – backing vocals (1, 2, 5, 7-11)

Jaime Babbitt – backing vocals (4)

Bob Bailey – backing vocals (4)

Lisa Cochran – backing vocals (4)

Vicki Hampton – backing vocals (4)

– backing vocals (4)

Chris Rodriguez

– lead vocals (6)

Lee Ann Womack

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Somewhere Down in Texas