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Twang (album)

Twang is the twenty-sixth studio album by American country music artist George Strait. It was released on August 11, 2009, via MCA Nashville, the same label to which Strait has been signed since 1981. It is produced by Tony Brown. The lead-off single "Living for the Night", which Strait wrote with his son Bubba and songwriter Dean Dillon, was released in May 2009. As of the chart dated January 8, 2011, the album has sold 662,023 copies in the US.[1] "Twang" was nominated for Best Country Album at the 2010 Grammy Awards.

Twang

August 11, 2009 (2009-08-11)

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

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Tony Brown
George Strait

Content[edit]

The album includes three songs that Strait co-wrote with his son, George "Bubba" Strait, Jr., who is also the sole writer of the track "Arkansas Dave." Among these three songs is the lead-off single "Living for the Night", which was also co-written by Dean Dillon, who has co-written several of Strait's previous singles. This album is also the second of his solo career to contain a song that he co-wrote, with 1982's Strait from the Heart being the first.[2] The album's final track, "El Rey", is a cover version of a Spanish-language song written and originally recorded by Mexican songwriter José Alfredo Jiménez. "Twang" was released on October 13, 2009 as the second single, followed by "I Gotta Get to You" in February 2010 and "The Breath You Take" in July.


It is Strait's first album not to feature a number one single since 2003's Honkytonkville.

– lead vocals, backing vocals (13)

George Strait

– acoustic piano, Wurlitzer electric piano, Hammond B3 organ

John Barlow Jarvis

– acoustic piano, Wurlitzer electric piano, Hammond B3 organ, synthesizers

Steve Nathan

– acoustic guitar

Randy Scruggs

Steve Gibson – acoustic guitar, electric guitar,

gut-string guitar

– electric guitar, gut-string guitar

Brent Mason

steel guitar

Paul Franklin

fiddle, mandolin

Stuart Duncan

– bass guitar, electric upright bass

Glenn Worf

– drums

Eddie Bayers

– percussion

Eric Darken

Mike Haynes – trumpet

– strings

The Nashville String Machine

– backing vocals

Thom Flora

Marty Slayton – backing vocals

– backing vocals (13)

Eddie Perez

– backing vocals (13)

Chris Rodriguez

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Twang