#7 is the sixth studio album by American country music artist George Strait—his seventh album including his Greatest Hits—released on May 14, 1986, by MCA Records. It is certified platinum by the RIAA and it produced two singles: "Nobody in His Right Mind Would've Left Her" (which had previously been recorded by Dean Dillon in 1980), and "It Ain't Cool to Be Crazy About You", both of which reached Number One on the country charts in 1986. "Deep Water" is a cover of a 1948 Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys song. "Cow Town" is a cover of a 1962 Webb Pierce song.
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Released | May 14, 1986 (1986-05-14) | |||
Recorded | January 1986 | |||
Studio | The Castle Franklin, TN and Sound Stage Studios Nashville TN | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 26:48 | |||
Label | MCA MCAD-5750 | |||
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Singles from #7 | ||||
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Robert Christgau | C+ [2] |
Rolling Stone | (average) [3] |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Deep Water" | Fred Rose | 2:31 |
2. | "Nobody in His Right Mind Would've Left Her" | Dean Dillon | 2:50 |
3. | "Rhythm of the Road" | Dan McCoy | 2:16 |
4. | "I'm Never Gonna Let You Go" | Clay Blaker | 3:08 |
5. | "You Still Get to Me" | Dan McCoy | 2:03 |
6. | "Stranger Things Have Happened" | David Chamberlain | 2:48 |
7. | "It Ain't Cool to Be Crazy About You" | Dillon, Royce Porter | 2:49 |
8. | "Why'd You Go and Break My Heart" | David Anthony | 2:39 |
9. | "My Old Flame Is Burnin' Another Honky Tonk Down" | Mack Vickery, Wayne Kemp, Bobby Borchers | 2:55 |
10. | "Cow Town" | Hal Burns, Tex Ritter | 2:49 |
Total length: | 26:48[1] |
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