Strait left the Army in 1975, returning to Texas with the intent of completing his education.
They played several dates off the base under the name Santee. While there, he began playing country music, initially with an Army-sponsored country band called Rambling Country. In 1971, Strait enlisted in the Army two years later, he was stationed in Hawaii. After his high school graduation in the late '60s, he enrolled in college but soon dropped out and eloped with his high school sweetheart, Norma. Strait began playing music as a teenager, joining a rock & roll garage band. During his childhood, he would spend his weekdays in town and his weekends on the ranch. When George was a child, his mother left the family, taking her daughter but leaving her sons behind with their father. Strait was born and raised in southern Texas, near San Antonio, the son of a junior high school teacher who also owned and operated a ranch that had been in the Strait family for nearly 100 years. These concerts were billed as a farewell but Strait didn't quite retire, he continued to play the occasional live show and record regularly, producing such albums as 2019's Honky Tonk Time Machine that continued to mine the rich vein of Texas country he tapped into with his debut Strait Country in 1981. Strait's hit streak waned in the early 2010s, right around the time he launched his Cowboy Rides Away tour. Between 19 he was a constant presence in Billboard's Country Top Ten, setting the record for most number one hits on their Hot Country Songs, a songbook that included such contemporary standards as "Fool Hearted Memory," "Amarillo By Morning," "Ocean Front Property," "All My Ex's Live in Texas," "I Cross My Heart," "Check Yes or No" and "Give It Away." As he racked up hits, Strait helped push mainstream country toward more traditional sounds, his success opening the doors for such 1980s peers as Randy Travis and Clint Black while also paving the way for Garth Brooks and Alan Jackson in 1990s.
Strait's commercial longevity was as astounding as his artistic consistency. This sound and light touch became Strait's signature for the next five decades, as he stayed true to these old-fashioned sounds without ever seeming behind the times. It was a jolt of honky tonk and western swing, two strands of Texan country music Strait tied together with ease. George Strait first appeared in the Billboard Country Top Ten in 1981, during the heyday of the slick, modern Urban Cowboy.
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