He isnвЂ™t so much a great character as a great narrator, telling a variety of stories instead of returning endlessly to his own. Like Sinatra, Strait is chiefly an interpreter, not a songwriter, and he is committed to the old-fashioned idea that an entertainerвЂ™s job is to entertain, and not necessarily to bare his soul. When Strait first emerged, he was acclaimed as вЂњthe honky-tonk Frank Sinatra,вЂќ a designation that fits him even better now than it did then. Everywhere that there is a country radio station, there are generations of listeners who regard StraitвЂ™s music as part of the landscape they are intimately connected to these songs, even if they canвЂ™t quite say that they are intimately connected to the man who sings them. Since 1981, when he made his dГ©but, he has placed eighty-six singles on BillboardвЂ™s Top 10 country chart, and more than half of them have gone to No. He is, by some measures, the most popular country-music singer of all time and, by any measure, the most consistent. вЂњHoney,вЂќ he said, вЂњI was just in there, and I didnвЂ™t see him.вЂќ StraitвЂ™s response was not, strictly speaking, a lie. Why would he cut a record in this little place?вЂќ She said, вЂњMy husband says that George Strait is in there, cutting a record, and I told him that canвЂ™t be true. One time, in Key West, where he records, he was sitting outside the studio, naked from the neck up, when a woman accosted him.

In San Antonio, where he lives, he can usually visit restaurants unmolested, so long as he doesnвЂ™t smile too widely-he is famous for his smile, which is bright and crooked.

George Strait has discovered that when he isnвЂ™t wearing a cowboy hat people often donвЂ™t realize that he is George Strait.

Photograph by Maxine Helfman for The New Yorker Strait has always been a singles artist he built his career for maximum longevity, amassing one hit after another.

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