{"id":19219,"date":"2013-04-12T20:00:30","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T20:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=19219"},"modified":"2013-04-12T20:00:30","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T20:00:30","slug":"19219","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2013\/04\/12\/19219\/","title":{"rendered":"George Strait Will The Cowboy Ride Away Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"George Strait Artist Section\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gactv.com\/gac\/ar_az_george_strait\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19220\" alt=\"georgestrait\" src=\"http:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/georgestrait.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/georgestrait.jpg 600w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/georgestrait-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>George Strait<\/strong> announced last week that it\u2019s time to hang up his spurs. His new tour, The Cowboy Rides Away Tour, will likely be his last big stretch of tour dates. George named the tour after his hit song \u201cThe Cowboy Rides Away.\u201d It\u2019s a fitting title, as he has used the song to close his live shows for years.<\/p>\n<p>Released in 1985, the song was the second single from George\u2019s 1984 <em>Does Forth Worth Ever Cross Your Mind<\/em> album. It reached No. 5 on the <em>Billboard<\/em> Hot Country Singles chart and No. 3 on Canada\u2019s RPM Country Tracks chart.<\/p>\n<p>Step into GAC\u2019s Time Machine to watch this live performance of \u201cThe Cowboy Rides Away\u201d after the jump!<\/p>\n<p>So far in his career, George (who turned 60 earlier this year) has had 59 No. 1 songs, earned more than 60 major industry awards and has sold over 65 million albums. He is the only artist in music history to achieve at least one Top Ten hit each year during his 30-year career and was only the second artist at the time (after <strong>Eddy Arnold<\/strong> in 1966) to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame (2006) while still actively recording and producing chart topping hits and albums.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">[youtube http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DCfhoSqJeDw?rel=0]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Strait announced last week that it\u2019s time to hang up his spurs. His new tour, The Cowboy Rides Away Tour, will likely be his last big stretch of tour dates. George named the tour after his hit song \u201cThe Cowboy Rides Away.\u201d It\u2019s a fitting title, as he has used the song to close his live shows for years. Released in 1985, the song was the second single from George\u2019s 1984 Does Forth Worth Ever Cross Your Mind album. It reached No. 5 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles<a href=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2013\/04\/12\/19219\/\" class=\"read-more\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}