Track Listing

1. I Just Want to Dance with You - George Strait, Cook, Roger [1]
2. One Step at a Time - George Strait, Clark, Earl
3. True - George Strait, Green, Marvin
4. Remember the Alamo - George Strait, Kennedy, Gordon
5. Maria - George Strait, Keen, Robert Earl J
6. We Really Shouldn't Be Doing This - George Strait, Lauderdale, Jim
7. Why Not Now - George Strait, Bogard, Steve
8. That's the Breaks - George Strait, Dillon, Dean
9. Neon Row - George Strait, Jay, Jimmy
10. You Haven't Left Me Yet - George Strait, Hunt, Dana

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #99227 in Music
• Released on: 1998-04-21
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
The line on Strait is that if you've heard one of his albums, you've heard them all, an assessment that could only be made by someone who really had heard just one of his albums. Following a career trend that had been building for some time, Strait's 1998 One Step at a Time is probably the least traditional album of his career. Throughout, Strait uses twangy instrumentation to create country music out of pop songs, as on the island-sounding "I Just Want to Dance With You," the impossibly catchy "True," the bluesy "Remember the Alamo," and the pop-rocking Mavericks-sound-alike "We Really Shouldn't Be Doing This." One Step at a Time does have one thing in common with previous Strait albums, though: it's one of the year's finer mainstream country efforts. --David Cantwell

Country Music
With the bright, emotion-charged vocals and shining harmonies [Strait] brings to One Step at a Time, he once again proves to be the near-perfect link between neo-honky-tonk and contemporary country love balladeering. A good for-instance is the opening cut, "I Just Want to Dance with You." This samba-like, fiddle & steel-injected dance tune, cowritten by John Prine and Roger Cook, is about as smooth and uptown as Strait's ever gotten....

Customer Reviews

BELOW AVERAGE GEORGE
I actually agree with some of the critics about this CD, there is a total lack of humor and western swing on this CD. I happen to think "Maria", "Remember The Alamo", "That's The Breaks", and "We Really Shouldn't Be Doing This" are the best tracks on this CD. However, NOT ONE of them is a top flight GS song. For example: There are EIGHT songs on "Beyond The Blue Neon" (The title track, "Hollywood Squares", "Overnight Success", "Ace In The Hole", "Baby's Gotten Good At Goodbye", "Angel, Angelina", and Oh Me, Oh My Sweet Baby" are all better than this CD's BEST song "Maria". I would view it as his second to the bottom CD (Only his CD "George Strait is worse). But below average George, is still better then most.

Bought it twice!
After reading some of the other interviews, I am wondering why other people do not love this CD as much as I do. I have purchased it two times! The first time was for my country loving husband. We enjoyed listening to it for a while, only to lose it some time later. I purchased a George Strait greatest hits CD thinking it might be better than the lost CD, but there was no comparison. After months of being without One Step at a Time, I was not happy until I bought it again! I especially like the first two tracks, I Want to Dance With you and One Step at a Time. It is my opinion this is George Strait at his best!

One of George's Best cd
This is one of the best cd Goerge strait has ever made. It has great songs. like,"neon row", Remember the alamo, I just want to dance with you, That's the breaks.
Every one of the saongs are great. Listen to it and see if it isn't the best. GS is the king of country music