GEORGE STRAIT Amarillo By Morning LIVE Astrodome | REACTION

[@butchmorrow3182]

This is the best version of this song, live at the Astrodome!

[@Vee1music-lover]

Awwww king George! Such a handsome devil with a voice to die for!

[@TristanandIsolt]

Another great western by George is I Can Still Make Cheyenne. I highly encourage checking that out and also Blue Clear Sky.

[@kierstenridgway4634]

He is the real thing! A real cowboy. And man! That voice!! He makes the songs he sings his own!!!

[@deborahbrown8431]

Thank you for this! My favorite George song!

[@deborahbrown8431]

You should also check out My Maria by Brooks and Dunn. Perfection! I am actually a huge rock fan. Favorite band is Rush and I really enjoyed your full and very thorough review of their career.

[@dianecourtney2724]

Well Hot Dam ! Never cared about country music ( into rock- jazz- classical ) but must admit this has a pretty melody. And thanks Justin for telling us it’s Not a violin bc I thought it was. Keep ‘ nit picking ‘ That’s why you’re so good ✌🏼

[@brownmc100]

He ain't worth a damn. It's a reaction not an elitist critique. He sucks!

[@mamabear9325]

I was there. He has women and girls from 2 to 110 yo crazy about him.

[@leannmiller7153]

Love George Strait. Troubadour is one of my favorites. George is also a a true rodeo cowboy, he lived it.

[@charleysage5827]

My wife was born and raised in Amarillo and I grew up here. Her cousin, Terry Stafford wrote Amarillo by Morning.

[@figgybass]

I played in a country band in the early 90s. I didn't know who George Strait was then but we played a bunch of his songs. Got to really enjoy his music. Violin and fiddle are the same instrument. A fiddle player might want the bridge cut a little different but it's the same instrument.

[@azd35]

This song is very much a cultural anthem. Most Texans I know always feel a little something when this song plays at the right moment - even if they’re several degrees removed from ranching, rodeo, or this type of music. George Strait did have super broad ‘country’ appeal, but the musical tradition he inhabited (and put his own mark upon for a generation) is for Texas ranching culture kind of like what bluegrass is to Appalachian culture. And all specialized genre’s of music seem to ‘hit’ differently the more exposure you have to people within the culture, or appreciation you have for the culture vs just hearing the musical forms and ideas in abstract

[@mark-be9mq]

Hoping for this one. Never heard of 'neo-traditional' but folks love making labels & tags, either way, great song, love it. Really like Stait's distinctive style & delivery.

[@yar9333]

For fiddling with the grittier sound check out Michael Cleveland. Saw him live a few years ago and it was like I’ve never seen before. Lots of videos you can watch on youtube

[@hughes-520]

Next time do the 1982 original album version. An iconic country song. He holds the record for most number one songs, on all charts, by any artist, in any music genre. (60 number 1 songs/hits). He’s known as the King of Country. Had so many great songs in the 80s, as well as 90s.

[@watchdogu.s.a.8973]

I find it amazing that this guy who seems to be involved in music somehow (I stumbled upon this channel and only watched the video because of the George Strait song) had never heard of the man who holds that record. Hopefully his day job is something other than music and he knows more about that job than this one.

[@dusty4835]

Gene Elders, the fiddle layer, just passed this past March.

[@TONE11111]

Was Barry White? Was Clint Black? Was George Straight? Was Marvin Gaye?.... Sure makes Stevie Wonder...

[@johngraves1955]

You have to know rodeo to know this song.

[@conhighway]

The studio version does sound a little better.

[@christielysdale1815]

The Chair

[@EarthWalker2023]

🔥

[@dblev2019]

Dude it’s George Straits song. If Stafford was still alive I’m sure he’d say the same thing. After all he probably made a heck of a lot more from the royalties of the George Strait rendition then he ever could have hoped to have nade from his own rendition.

[@dblev2019]

You really should check out Terry Staffords recording of Amarillo by Morning. It’s dated and seems out of place. George Straits made the song timeless. If Strait didn’t pick up this song, you don’t have people in China or Mongolia singing about a town they’ve never heard of in the panhandle of Texas!

[@Feardabeard]

#KingGeorge

[@icspots2351]

The difference is the strings, fiddle has steel strings

[@sandralorenz1796]

This is why he is King George...King of Country...he is 72 and can still draw a record setting crowd. By our tone, we can tell you are not a traditional country music fan.

[@danarchuleta1154]

Well....Fun to dance to, I'm really picky w/country...lol glad YOU said anyone can sing GS songs...So, yeah...Hank, Dwight Yoakam, Waylon, and here's one you might appreciate; Diamond Rio....they're more instrumentally oriented....

[@philcasselli6534]

OK Justin, still waiting for you to discover songs 2 to 8 on Bostons first album. You won't find better riffs, vocals, arrangements or engineering. Really quite spectacular.

[@yar9333]

Just listened to the original and it’s that schmaltzy 70s country sounds not good. I’m not the biggest country fan, but I can listen to George Straits voice all day long. He picks good songs that are easy on the ears. All that fancy label means is his stuff is somewhat more traditional sounding than the pop country of the day. I play the fiddle/violin and actually these are more ‘violin’ music lines than ‘fiddle’ music lines. It’s all the same really. Most of the great ‘fiddlers’ out there now are classically trained. I go to a lot of bluegrass concerts and almost every ‘fiddler’ in these bands were classically trained and went to music school. Very very few of them now are true fiddle players that learned it from their family, friends or other fiddle players. I was classically trained and went to music school as well (for a short time) but my parents were heavily involved in old time fiddling and I sat in on many a jam session with self taught fiddlers that were really good, but they have a different way of playing thats less technical, so i can spot the difference right alway.

[@serfillustrated4018]

Sadly most country singers don't write their own songs.

[@dianecourtney2724]

Don’t know why my comment is under deborahbrown 😂 I know as much about commenting as I do about country music

[@michaelenosmusic]

There's not much to it.. it's just a good song... made better by one of the great country singers.. nice key change. George never or rarely wrote his own songs.. but he was known to be great at choosing great material. Neo traditionalists.. a period in the 80s/90s where artists attempted to be less pop oriented and more genuine country sounding in the way they wrote, recorded, and performed. Reba McEntire, Ricky Skaggs and Randy Travis are other examples.

[@hughes-520]

Also Clint Black, Alan Jackson

[@jennybowd2962]

Maybe it looks older to you as George the King Strait doesn't stuff around with laser light show it's just him his band and his fantastic music

[@brownmc100]

You should be reacting not critiquing. You've got an air about you of an elitist . So I suggest you don't react to real country music. This man is the biggest country music artist of all time so be respectful.

[@JustinPanariello]

I am reacting. And critiquing. Can do what I want thanks.

[@donnelson6694]

Not my thing but I suppose it's a decent cover.