Strait Out of the Box
1995 box set by George Strait / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dear Wikiwand AI, let's keep it short by simply answering these key questions:
Can you list the top facts and stats about Strait Out of the Box?
Summarize this article for a 10 year old
Strait Out of the Box (retroactively known as Strait Out of the Box: Part 1) is the first box set album by American country music artist George Strait. It contains four albums' worth of music, dating from 1976 to 1995. It mainly consists of Strait's singles, except for a select few that he decided to exclude. They were replaced by his choice of album cuts and several studio outtakes. It also contains his three singles recorded in the 1970s for indie label D Records, one of which, "I Just Can't Go on Dying Like This", was re-recorded for Strait's 2013 album Love Is Everything.[4]
Strait Out of the Box | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Box set by | ||||
Released | September 12, 1995 | |||
Recorded | June 1976 – April 10, 1995 | |||
Genre | ||||
Length | Disc 1 - 51:42 Disc 2 - 53:12 Disc 3 - 59:25 Disc 4 - 52:56 Total - 3:37:15 | |||
Label | MCA | |||
Producer | George Strait, Phil Ramone, Blake Mevis, Don Daily, Hank Cattaneo, Tony Brown, Jimmy Bowen, Ray Benson, Ray Baker, Joe Barnhill | |||
George Strait chronology | ||||
| ||||
Singles from Strait Out of the Box | ||||
| ||||
Review scores | |
---|---|
Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [1] |
Entertainment Weekly | A− [2] |
Los Angeles Times | [3] |
"Check Yes or No" and "I Know She Still Loves Me" were both released from this set as singles. Respectively, they reached number 1 and number 5 on the Billboard country charts.
The album was certified 8× platinum by the RIAA on July 29, 2003, indicating shipment of 2 million copies.[5] This made the album at the time the best-performing country music box set of all time, and it was second only to the Live 1975–85 box set by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band overall. It had sold 1,525,100 copies in the United States as of October 2019.[6]