George Strait announced on Tuesday that he’s releasing a new album and will be performing four shows in Las Vegas in 2016.
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“I’m not trying to do anything that I’m not comfortable with”, he said of his new record to Rolling Stone. “I always shoot for that”.
Strait has played every sized venue since his debut at the Frontier Hotel with Moe Bandy in 1985, returning to the Las Vegas Convention Center that same year.
You kind of took a page from hip-hop guys like Drake and Kendrick Lamar, and will be releasing the new album, Cold Beer Conversation, with nearly no notice. Cold Beer Conversation is the first of those albums.
George Strait performs on stage at the 49th annual Academy of Country Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Sunday, April 6, 2014, in Las Vegas.
Strait will play Las Vegas starting on April 22-23 and again on September 9-10. The tickets for Strait’s concert will go on sale October 2 and will most likely sell out fast, so have your computers ready.
“It’s fun to play Vegas”, he told reporters. “I think I’ve been at MCA longer than most people in this room have” Strait said during a press conference today (Sept. 22). “I never said that”, he said Tuesday with a flash of his pearly white cowboy smile. “There’s no formula that I can say, ‘This is how you do it.’ I just know a song that fits me when I hear it”.
Stream George Strait’s new single “Cold Beer Conversation” below.
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. Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Kacey Musgraves will open for Strait. The Las Vegas Arena will hold about 20,000 concertgoers, and its executives are banking on Strait’s major star power to pack the house. In fact, I sang a song from it at the ACM 50 anniversary, at AT&T Stadium. With a career spanning more than three decades his achievements include having 60 No. 1 singles and selling more than 68.5 million records.
