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Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind

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The title track is one of George's most famous songs but, perhaps surprisingly, is the only number one country hit from this chart (based on Billboard). The two other singles (The cowboy rides away, The fireman) both made the top five in the country charts.

Overall, this album is typical of George's early albums with its mix of ballads and western swing-influenced up-tempo songs. Instrumentation consists of steel, electric and acoustic guitars together with fiddle, mandolin, keyboards, bass and drums. Apart from the three tracks released as singles, I particularly like Any old time, You're dancing this dance all wrong and Honky tonk Saturday night.

If you enjoy George's music enough to want more than just the hits, you will derive a lot of enjoyment from this album.

One of George's stronger albums, "Fort Worth" features a fresh and clear-voiced singer who has finally been allowed to follow his heart and make the kind of music he has always wanted to make. The result-his first "album of the year" award from the CMA. This album is lean and mean honky-tonk at its best and you should treat yourself to a copy of it.

This is top notch George, and there is not a bad song on it. "Honky Tonk Saturday Night" is a real highlight here because you can't get it on "Strait Out Of The Box". With country classics like "The Fireman", and the title track, on it, it should be viewed as one of his best CDs. Something else great about it, is that you cannot get most of the other songs, anywhere else. So if you are a GS fan, you should have it in your collection.

Are you a fan of hard core, honky tonkin country? Then this is the album for you!!! It was the first time that George co-produced an album and he had complete control over material as well as arrangements. The CMA & ACM agree with me, they both honored this work with Album Of The Year, the first time George received that particular award. It may be over 10 years old now, but still sounds great today. A must for any country lovers collection!!!

As a previous reviewer said, this album did not have many hits. I can see three that charted...maybe four. That has nothing to do with the quality of a record, though.

Every song on the record is good. I especially like "You're Dancing This Dance All Wrong". It's pure Texas swing. This album is a little less honky-tonk than George's previous albums. It's swinging harder into Texas.

It's a good album.

I was never a huge strait fan- but i recently saw people line dancing
in a tim mcgraw film called flicker. to the tune the fireman
very good players on this cd w/ johnny gimble on fiddle and randy scruggs
on pedal steel. A+ for musicians .plus the title track and a few other tunes are keepers too.

I've had the cassette version of this album for 10 years and I finally gave in and bought the CD. In my mind the best album ever made, I can listen to it over and over without getting sick of it unlike most albums. Some say that there are a lot of filler songs on this album, but it is actually the only album I've listened to that doesn't have any - they're all good! This album was so great that When George Strait released a concert DVD in 2002 - 18 years and albums later, out of the 18 songs that he sang, 3 were from this album! I read that for years he opened his concerts with 'The Fireman' and ended them with 'The Cowboy Rides Away' (Which along with Amarillo By Morning' make up my top 3 all-time favorite songs) While all George Strait Albums deserve a 5 star rating, this one deserves six.

IRT

I am an avid George Strait fan. This is another CD of great country songs. I listen to it frequently. Wonderful songs.

While it's difficult to say where and when George Strait's career really took off, many view DOES FORT WORTH EVER CROSS YOUR MIND as the pivotal album that catapulted Strait straight to the top of the Country Music world. This album garnered numerous awards, acclaim and is a solid continuing favorite among Country Music fans everywhere.

Studded with hits like the title track DOES FORT WORTH EVER CROSS YOUR MIND, YOU'RE DANCIN' THIS DANCE ALL WRONG, COWBOY RIDES AWAY and FIREMAN, this album also offers other tracks that have become hits. But then that's an old story for George Strait--every track seems as fresh and as bright as the title song and there's never any filler to muddy things up.

Douglas McAllister

This album is a country standard and the cornerstone of George Strait's career. We all know and love the singles (the title track, "The Cowboy Rides Away," and the irresistible "The Fireman"), but it's the rest of the album that really shines. It's certainly more than "filler."

"Any Old Time" is a quick, breezy, fun sing-a-long with playful fiddle and guitar work. "I Need Someone Like Me," "Honky Tonk Saturday Night," "I Should Have Watched That First Step," and "What Did You Expect Me to Do" are toe-tapping honky-tonk numbers; songs you might think you want to skip until you get about ten seconds into them and start singing along. "Love Comes from the Other Side of Town" juxtaposes a light-hearted melody and arrangement with a pretty serious subject, cheating. Kind of like the country version of a punk rock idea, I guess. Regardless, it's too catchy to ignore.

The standout track on this album is the ballad "You're Dancin' This Dance All Wrong," my favorite GS song other than "The Chair." It's a bittersweet love ballad, celebrating a new love and looking back on an old one. Any other singer would have either slaughtered this song or turned it into a gaudy showcase for his voice, but GS's (as always) low-key, human delivery makes this song perfect.

This album is really best listened to in one sitting. And at under thirty minutes, that's not much of a problem. I give it my highest recommendation.