Reddit reviews George Strait - Greatest Hits

39 here. I grew up in Texas (and still live here), where it was once said by a certain Texas country singer that you get a copy of George's greatest hits cd when you get your driver's license. I was always a fan, but it ramped up in earnest my senior year in high school, about the time the first box set came out. As I put it elsewhere, I was pretty naive musically once upon a time, as I remember thinking that he was not far from hanging it up back then, as he had been at it for 15 years at the time. I was thinking that the box set was his swan song. I honestly never would have guessed that some of his greatest artistic and commercial achievements were ahead of him, including several more multi-week No. 1 singles, a couple of debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, and that very box set becoming the second-biggest-selling box set of all time in any genre of music.

A fair amount of people would probably tell you he was better in the '80s, but I just don't know how that could be, because he was in-fucking-credible when I saw him. And he's still making great music even now. Radio just doesn't see fit to play it anymore, and that's their failing, not his.