The 1986 single and title track to his early 1987 album was one of the first Dean Dillon-penned songs that help put Strait on the map. “Check Yes or No” was Certified Triple Platinum in February.Īnd last but not least, another George Strait signature song in “Ocean Front Property” has finally achieved Platinum status. Along with “Amarillo By Morning,” “Troubadour” joins “Check Yes or No” as the songs that have achieved Triple Platinum status from Strait’s catalog. “Troubadour” was recorded with Vince Gill singing backup vocals. But time is always the greatest arbiter of quality, and time has been very kind to the track, along with the video with its 110 million streams. The 2008 single takes a reflective look back on Strait’s career as an aging performer, and stalled at #7 when it was initially released. Even though Strait minted more #1s in country music history than anyone, “Troubadour” was not one of them. The song has now officially gone Triple Platinum, making it one of Strait’s most successful songs.Īlso joining the Triple Platinum club is Strait’s song “Troubadour,” which is an interesting song to find such success.
The lonesome fiddle start off and ending compliment a story about a cowboy traveling from San Antonio to Amarillo to compete in the rodeo. It came off his 1982 album Strait From the Heart, and has since become one of his signature tunes. “Amarillo By Morning” was one of George Strait’s first hits. For Strait, that has resulted in him receiving three new certifications from the RIAA for certified sales and streams. On the contrary, with the way much of today’s mainstream country music leaves listeners flat, they’re turning to the back catalogs of country greats like George Strait to relive the music that has withstood the test of time.
If you’re not a blubbering mess after listening to this song, then I don’t know why you’re even listening to country music.You may not hear “King” George Strait on mainstream country radio anymore, but that doesn’t mean people aren’t listening. As they stand in the church, waiting for the bride-to-be, the son turns to his dad to tell him how much he’s learned from watching his father and mother, before claiming one last time that this is actually the best day of his life. The third and final verse takes place on the son's wedding day. If that wasn’t enough to have you already sobbing into your beer, the father takes his son out for a spin in the new car he’s given him on his fifteenth birthday, and the son is still having the best day of his life, and he’s a bloody teenager!! Loading up a station wagon with fishing rods for a weekend of camping, his son turns to him as they arrive at the campsite and says, “Dad, this could be the best day of my life / Been dreamin' day and night about the fun we'll have / Just me and you doing what I've always wanted to / I'm the luckiest boy alive / This is the best day of my life”. The first song on any ‘Country Songs for Dads’ playlist, George pulls hard on the heartstrings in this single, as a father looks back chronologically on all the things he and his son have done together over the course of his life.
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