George Strait - One Step at a Time

The line on Strait is that if you've heard one of his albums, you've heard them all, an assessment that could only be made by someone who really had heard just one of his albums. Following a career trend that had been building for some time, Strait's 1998 One Step at a Time is probably the least traditional album of his career. Throughout, Strait uses twangy instrumentation to create country music out of pop songs, as on the island-sounding "I Just Want to Dance With You," the impossibly catchy "True," the bluesy "Remember the Alamo," and the pop-rocking Mavericks-sound-alike "We Really Shouldn't Be Doing This." One Step at a Time does have one thing in common with previous Strait albums, though: it's one of the year's finer mainstream country efforts. --David Cantwell Amazon.com

BELOW AVERAGE GEORGE

I actually agree with some of the critics about this CD, there is a total lack of humor and western swing on this CD. I happen to think "Maria", "Remember The Alamo", "That's The Breaks", and "We Really Shouldn't Be Doing This" are the best tracks on this CD. However, NOT ONE of them is a top flight GS song. For example: There are EIGHT songs on "Beyond The Blue Neon" (The title track, "Hollywood Squares", "Overnight Success", "Ace In The Hole", "Baby's Gotten Good At Goodbye", "Angel, Angelina", and Oh Me, Oh My Sweet Baby" are all better than this CD's BEST song "Maria". I would view it as his second to the bottom CD (Only his CD "George Strait is worse). But below average George, is still better then most. January 2, 2005

Bought it twice!

After reading some of the other interviews, I am wondering why other people do not love this CD as much as I do. I have purchased it two times! The first time was for my country loving husband. We enjoyed listening to it for a while, only to lose it some time later. I purchased a George Strait greatest hits CD thinking it might be better than the lost CD, but there was no comparison. After months of being without One Step at a Time, I was not happy until I bought it again! I especially like the first two tracks, I Want to Dance With you and One Step at a Time. It is my opinion this is George Strait at his best! December 10, 2003

One of George's Best cd

This is one of the best cd Goerge strait has ever made. It has great songs. like,"neon row", Remember the alamo, I just want to dance with you, That's the breaks.
Every one of the saongs are great. Listen to it and see if it isn't the best. GS is the king of country music September 16, 2003

George's worst album to date

George Strait is the best country singer out there today and he has been the best for so many years but on One step at a time I heard such a bad Nashville Pop kind of sound he just did not sound like his usual self. The singles were terrible except True but even that song isn't typical George Strait. What the heck is with all of the slow ballads on here and they are long songs to some of them go for just under 5 minutes. George Strait luckily bounced back to his usual self in Always never the same and by 2001 The Road less Traveled was such a better album full of great singles and better songs George Strait is still going strong today with new songs and will be around for many years and I hope this album gets put away forever because it stinks! April 25, 2003

Not George's greatest, but still great

George Strait's album One Step At A Time is great, even though it isn't his greatest record. On here are the rocking song "We Shouldn't Really Be Doing This" and the mid-tempo song "I Just Want To Dance With You", both big hits from George. The power waltz "Remember The Alamo" is also a great song, though it was never a single. With the exception of those three songs, George recorded all slow songs on this one. Don't get me wrong--I think George is an excellent ballad singer. However, two of the songs on here--"Neon Row" and the title track "One Step At A Time"--drag on to their conclusion, at least in this writer's opinion. Both of these songs are extremely slow, with "Neon Row" lasting almost five minutes and "One Step At A Time" going on for slightly over four minutes. George usually says what he wants to say in a song in under four minutes, so the previous two songs are like "yawners" to me. On the other hand, the romantic ballad "Maria", though it is also a lengthy song, has a good story and an arrangement that is unusual for George yet solid. "Maria" is the only song I've heard from George where he used a dobro instead of his usual pedal steel guitar. To me, the four remaining songs on this record--"True", "Why Not Now", "That's The Breaks" and the concluding song "You Haven't Left Me Yet"--are George at his best. Even though they're ballads, George sings them with authority, and he comes across as someone who really enjoys what he's doing. Overall, I give this album four stars. Although it's not quite up to George's best work, One Step At A Time is still a great record. March 24, 2002

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