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"All My Ex's Live in Texas" is a song written by Sanger D. Shafer and Lyndia J. Shafer, and recorded by American country music singer George Strait. It was released in April 1987 as the second single from Strait's album Ocean Front Property. "All My Ex's Live In Texas" was nominated for Best Male Country Vocal Performance at the 1988 Grammy Awards.
All My Ex's Live in Texas" was also nominated for a Grammy Award, for Best Country Song (lost to: Paul Overstreet & Don Schlitz for "Forever and Ever, Amen"). In the middle of the 1980s Shafer released two albums, I Never Go Around Mirrors and So Good for So Long, containing his greatest hits.
[1] [2] The group name was adapted from the George Strait song "All My Exes Live in Texas", which they chose for its "funny and ironic" nature. [ 3 ] At the ARIA Music Awards of 2017 , the group won ARIA Award for Best Blues and Roots Album , for the critically acclaimed debut album When We Fall .
Ocean Front Property is the seventh studio album by American country music artist George Strait, released on January 12, 1987, by MCA Records.It is certified 2× Multi-platinum by the RIAA.
Strait typically performed three to five encore songs, including "All My Ex's Live in Texas" and "Folsum Prison Blues", one of a handful of cover songs he adds to the set each concert. Strait closed each show with one of his earliest hit songs, "The Cowboy Rides Away". [1] The Cowboy Rides Away Tour closed with three stadium concerts.
Braddock and Van Hoy wrote the song over the telephone in an attempt to create something along the lines of George Strait's 1987 country single "All My Ex's Live in Texas". They initially titled the song "Old Flames With New Names". Mark Wright, who would produce Chesnutt's record, suggested the change to "Old Flames Have New Names". [2]
"Write This Down" is a song written by Dana Hunt Black and Kent Robbins and recorded by American country music singer George Strait.It was released in March 1999 as the second single from Strait's album Always Never the Same.
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