I'm a big Strait fan, I own all his other CD's and I like both his old stuff and his new stuff, but I thought this album was lacking something. It seemed like in a lot of the songs he was trying to go back to the way he used to sound, but something was missing. In more than one song the rhythm and rhyming sounded akward or stretched, and most of the songs were not something you could easily sing along with. And maybe he was doing it on purpose or maybe it's becasue he is getting older but his voice didn't sound as strong as it usually does.