JANUARY 2000
C&I’s first George Strait cover story, penned by Reid Slaughter, caught up with the superstar’s career to that point and focused on his Texas individuality and its relation to the Nashville country machine.
Perhaps the most important part of the Strait history occurred during those first heady days in Nashville. Faced with a chance to launch the career he had dreamed of, he was told to “lose his Western look,
