In October 1988, the morning after the prestigious Country Music Association awards, a glum-faced George Strait sat slumped in his chair in a Nashville pancake house looking like someone who'd lost the national lottery by one number. Randy Travis had just topped him as the CMA's Male Vocalist of the Year for the second year in a row, and Hank Williams Jr. had again taken home the top Entertainer of the Year trophy. Strait had come up empty-handed. For Strait, this moment was the artistic crossroads of his career. While his 1986 album, Ocean Front Property, had debuted on the Read more on Last.fm.
