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Oct 21, 2015Cold Beer Conversation is a bit looser than Mr. Strait’s last album, “Love Is Everything,” with convincing flashes of western swing (“It Takes All Kinds”). But the standouts here are the love songs.
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Oct 21, 2015He's a singer that can make quiet seem compelling, and there are plenty of instances in this tight, wholly satisfying record where he demands attention by not asking for it.
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Oct 21, 2015The whole endeavor has a “live and let live” feel that fits in perfectly with Strait’s laid-back, though never sloppy, attitude.
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Oct 21, 2015In the end Cold Beer Conversation isn’t just another in a long line of superior releases, it’s a beacon of good writing, playing and singing. But it’s also all we could want or expect from a man who embodies the best that country music has to offer.