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Album Latest Greatest Straitest Hits
Utgitt : 2000
Låtskriver : Larry Cordle, Larry Shell

Song by George Strait with Alan Jackson

"Murder on Music Row" is a 1999 song written by Larry Cordle and Larry Shell, and originally recorded by American bluegrass group Larry Cordle & Lonesome Standard Time, as the title track from their album Murder on Music Row.[1] It gained fame soon after that when it was recorded as a duet between country music artists George Strait and Alan Jackson. The song laments the rise of country pop and the accompanying decline of the traditional country music sound; it refers to Music Row, an area in Nashville, Tennessee considered the epicenter of the country music industry.

Although the Strait/Jackson version was not released officially as a single, it received enough unsolicited airplay to reach number 38 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.

The original Larry Cordle version was awarded the Song of the Year award at the 2000 International Bluegrass Music Awards

George Strait/Alan Jackson version
"Murder on Music Row"
George Strait/Alan Jackson version:
The song was covered by Country music artists George Strait and Alan Jackson. Originally, the two singers performed the song together at the 1999 Country Music Association Awards show;[4] Strait and Jackson later recorded it for 2000's Latest Greatest Straitest Hits album. The studio version, although never released officially as a single, reached number 38 on the Hot Country Songs chart from unsolicited play and served as the B-side to Strait's late-2000 single "Go On". In 2000, it also received the Country Music Association's award for Vocal Event of the Year, as well as the CMA's Song of the Year award a year later
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George Harvey Strait Sr. (born May 18, 1952) is an American country music singer, songwriter, actor, and music producer. George Strait is known as the "King of Country" and is considered one of the most influential and popular recording artists of all time. He is known for his neotraditionalist country style, cowboy look, and being one of the first and main country artists to bring country music back to its roots and away from the pop country era in the 1980s.
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