Love Is Everything (George Strait album)
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| Studio album by George Strait | ||||
| Released | May 14, 2013 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Label | MCA Nashville | |||
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Tony Brown George Strait |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 75/100 |
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| AllMusic |   |
| Country Weekly | B+ |
| Los Angeles Times | |
| Roughstock | |
| The Salt Lake Tribune | B- |
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Love Is Everything is the twenty-eighth studio album by American country music artist George Strait. It was released on May 14, 2013 via MCA Nashville. Lead-off single "Give It All We Got Tonight" was released October 29, 2012 and became a top-10 single. Strait co-produced the album with his long-time producer Tony Brown. The album release is accompanied by a Spring 2014 concert tour, The Cowboy Rides Away Tour.
This was the last album of Strait's career to feature Tony Brown, who has produced all of Strait's albums since 1992.
Love Is Everything features 13 original songs including four written or co-written by Strait along with his son Bubba and songwriter Dean Dillon.
"I Just Can't Go On Dying Like This", written by Strait, was previously recorded for the Ace in the Hole Band in 1976 and included on Strait's Strait Out of the Box box set in 1995.
Love Is Everything received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, they assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews and ratings from mainstream critics, the album received a metascore of 75, based on 5 reviews.
At Country Weekly, Bob Paxman told that the album "further showcases George's smooth voice and, perhaps more importantly, his uncanny knack for picking outstanding songs." Mikael Wood of Los Angeles Times called the release "completely devastating" because it contains "carefully rendered and unabashed in its optimism, it's as personal as anything Strait has ever recorded."The Salt Lake Tribune found that "Strait risks nothing", which is not necessarily a good or bad thing because he has "a voice that is deeper than the Marianas Trench with the right amount of twang, in the end, Strait needs no exclamation points, and still is appealing." At USA Today, Brian Mansfield claimed that Strait "hasn't lost a step in the studio." Daryl Addison of Great American Country noted that the release is "an insightful and sentimental chapter to George's continuing legacy." At Billboard, Chuck Dauphin gave a positive review, when he affirmed that "truly [this] is an album worth giving a listen to, and then, and then again." At Country Standard Time, Jeffrey B. Remz of Country Standard Time said that "George Strait continues to age very well."
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