7 (George Strait album)

#7
Studio album by George Strait
Released	May 14, 1986 (1986-05-14)
Recorded	January 1986
Studio	The Castle (Franklin, TN) and Sound Stage Studios (Nashville, TN).
Genre	Neotraditional country
Length	26:48
Label	MCA MCAD-5750
Producer	Jimmy Bowen George Strait
George Strait chronology
Something Special (1985) #7 (1986) Merry Christmas Strait to You! (1986)
Singles from #7
"Nobody in His Right Mind Would've Left Her" Released: April 21, 1986 "It Ain't Cool to Be Crazy About You" Released: August 25, 1986

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Robert Christgau	C+
Rolling Stone	(average)

#7 is the sixth studio album by American country music artist George Strait—his seventh album including his Greatest Hits—released on May 14, 1986, by MCA Records. It is certified platinum by the RIAA and it produced two singles: "Nobody in His Right Mind Would've Left Her" (which had previously been recorded by Dean Dillon in 1980), and "It Ain't Cool to Be Crazy About You", both of which reached Number One on the country charts in 1986. "Deep Water" is a cover of a 1948 Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys song. "Cow Town" is a cover of a 1962 Webb Pierce song.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Deep Water"	Fred Rose	2:31
2.	"Nobody in His Right Mind Would've Left Her"	Dean Dillon	2:50
3.	"Rhythm of the Road"	Dan McCoy	2:16
4.	"I'm Never Gonna Let You Go"	Clay Blaker	3:08
5.	"You Still Get to Me"	McCoy	2:03
6.	"Stranger Things Have Happened"	David Chamberlain	2:48
7.	"It Ain't Cool to Be Crazy About You"	Dillon, Royce Porter	2:49
8.	"Why'd You Go and Break My Heart"	David Anthony	2:39
9.	"My Old Flame Is Burnin' Another Honky Tonk Down"	Mack Vickery, Wayne Kemp, Bobby Borchers	2:55
10.	"Cow Town"	Hal Burns, Tex Ritter	2:49
Total length:			26:48

Personnel

• George Strait – lead vocals
• John Barlow Jarvis – pianos
• Richard Bennett – electric guitar, acoustic guitar
• Billy Joe Walker, Jr. – electric guitar, acoustic guitar
• Reggie Young – electric guitar
• Paul Franklin – steel guitar
• Johnny Gimble – fiddle, mandolin
• David Hungate – bass guitar
• Eddie Bayers – drums
• Curtis "Mr. Harmony" Young – backing vocals

Production

• Jimmy Bowen – producer
• George Strait – producer
• Willie Pevear – recording
• Chuck Ainlay – overdub recording
• Bob Bullock – overdub recording
• Mark J. Coddington – second engineer
• Tim Kish – second engineer
• Keith Odle – second engineer
• Russ Martin – second engineer
• Ron Treat – mixing
• Glenn Meadows – mastering at Masterfonics (Nashville, Tennessee)
• Peter Nash – photography
• Simon Levy – art direction
• Camille Brown – design
• Erv Woolsey – management

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1986)	Peak position
US Billboard 200	126
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)	1

Year-end charts

Chart (1985)	Position
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)	16