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Deserving of Album Of The Year!

retrowens | 04/30/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"George's second in a row album of the year winner from both the ACM's & CMA's is deserving of the honor. Every track is a gem, but my very favorite is his remake of the old Vern Gosden hit "Today My World Slipped Away". No offense Vern, but George nails this one as no one else could!!! It makes me wish that George would re-record a lot of old favorites and make them his own!"

His way of putting together songs is remarkable.

retrowens | 04/22/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is a very touching set of songs. All of George Straits songs and albums are great but this one touched my heart especially. When my grandfather was taking his last few breaths of life in the hospic unit in Duluth, MN we turned the radio on to a country station because he had always liked country music. Well, when we turned it on, George Strait's "Today My World Slipped Away" came on and we listened to the whole song and both the song and my grandpa's life ended at the same time. It was really weird. So his world slipped away from him and I couldn't do anything about it to help him. I am so glad I have the hope of the ressurrection in the near future. With out that, My world would have probably slipped away as well because me and him were very close. I like all of George Strait's CD's but this one touches my heart especially because of that one song."

Doesn't quite match "Blue Clear Sky", but it comes close

Ken | Olathe, KS, U.S.A. | 03/18/2002

(4 out of 5 stars)

"George Strait's Carrying Your Love With Me is a winning record. My favorite songs on here are the two initial singles, the romantic ballad "One Night At A Time" and the bouncy, optimistic title song "Carrying Your Love With Me". Another huge hit off this album was George's remake of Vern Gosdin's classic breakup song "Today My World Slipped Away". George stuck pretty close to Vern's original arrangement here and made his version of "Today My World Slipped Away" as good as Vern's, if not better. Bobby Braddock's song "The Nerve" starts out as a pretty straightforward song about a rekindled romance and goes deeper, dealing with the speaker's past and his ancestry. "A Real Good Place To Start" is a song about starting over with an old romantic flame after a breakup with someone else. "She'll Leave You With A Smile" has the same title as a song on George's current record The Road Less Traveled, but is a completely different song. On this record's version, the man is begging his friend not to get involved with the woman he(the speaker) just broke up with("Friend, you know she once was mine"), because the friend will be treated the same way he was. When the new relationship is over, says the speaker, "she'll leave you with a smile".George does his usual country swing on the opening lost-love song "Round About Way", the romantic toe-tapper "That's Me Every Chance I Get", and the driving song "I've Got A Funny Feeling". All these songs are well-written and well-done. The song that prevents this album from getting five stars, in my opinion, is the honky-tonk song "Won't You Come Home And Talk To A Stranger". In the aforementioned song, these are the words the woman uses when she calls her husband at the bar, where he's having a good time with friends, and begs him to come home("Won't you come home and talk to a stranger/It's the only place in days you haven't been"). George is good at choosing songs for his records, but he occasionally lapses, picking songs with "hokey", uncharacteristically bad words or themes. "Won't You Come Home And Talk To A Stranger" is one of only a few George Strait songs that I can honestly say is really bad. However, I think it's the only "miss" on a record where practically every song could be a hit. Carrying Your Love With Me doesn't quite match its predecessor, Blue Clear Sky. However, it comes close. I think George made a winning, high-quality record here."