Carrying Your Love with Me

Highly recommended!


Doesn't quite match "Blue Clear Sky", but it comes close   March 18, 2002
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George Strait's Carrying Your Love With Me is a winning record. My favorite songs on here are the two initial singles, the romantic ballad "One Night At A Time" and the bouncy, optimistic title song "Carrying Your Love With Me". Another huge hit off this album was George's remake of Vern Gosdin's classic breakup song "Today My World Slipped Away". George stuck pretty close to Vern's original arrangement here and made his version of "Today My World Slipped Away" as good as Vern's, if not better. Bobby Braddock's song "The Nerve" starts out as a pretty straightforward song about a rekindled romance and goes deeper, dealing with the speaker's past and his ancestry. "A Real Good Place To Start" is a song about starting over with an old romantic flame after a breakup with someone else. "She'll Leave You With A Smile" has the same title as a song on George's current record The Road Less Traveled, but is a completely different song. On this record's version, the man is begging his friend not to get involved with the woman he(the speaker) just broke up with("Friend, you know she once was mine"), because the friend will be treated the same way he was. When the new relationship is over, says the speaker, "she'll leave you with a smile".

George does his usual country swing on the opening lost-love song "Round About Way", the romantic toe-tapper "That's Me Every Chance I Get", and the driving song "I've Got A Funny Feeling". All these songs are well-written and well-done. The song that prevents this album from getting five stars, in my opinion, is the honky-tonk song "Won't You Come Home And Talk To A Stranger". In the aforementioned song, these are the words the woman uses when she calls her husband at the bar, where he's having a good time with friends, and begs him to come home("Won't you come home and talk to a stranger/It's the only place in days you haven't been"). George is good at choosing songs for his records, but he occasionally lapses, picking songs with "hokey", uncharacteristically bad words or themes. "Won't You Come Home And Talk To A Stranger" is one of only a few George Strait songs that I can honestly say is really bad. However, I think it's the only "miss" on a record where practically every song could be a hit. Carrying Your Love With Me doesn't quite match its predecessor, Blue Clear Sky. However, it comes close. I think George made a winning, high-quality record here.


Great Cd   January 15, 2002
Great music from George strait himself. Music that only He can produce. A+++++


Another Great Album From George!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   July 14, 2000
This Guy Just Keeps Getting Better And Better. Hits Like "One Night At A Time" The Title Track, Vern Gosdin's "Today My World Slipped Away", And "Round About Way" Can Prove It. 3 Of Those Hits Went To Number 1. They Also Appear On The Latest Greatest Straitest Hits Album.


Wow   May 30, 2000
Carrying Your Love takes its place as one of George's all-time best albums, which I can say since I have all 26 of them. The weakest song in my opinion, Won't You Come Home, is still pretty good, with a nice swing melody. George's vocals tear away at the heart in the beautiful title song, and you can hear him supplying honesty to the song's words. Two excellent rockers, Round About Way and I've Got a Funny Feeling, soar with energy and wit. "I got a funny feeling, somebody's stealing my honey" almost forces a smile from the listener.

The Nerve is an excellent change of pace, and delves nicely into a man's past and ancestry. The great Vern Gosdin tune Today My World Slipped Away is given a nice cover. You can clearly hear the heartbreak in George's voice, as he relates the destruction divorce can wrought.