7 (George Strait album)

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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" and "It Ain't Cool to Be Crazy About You", both of which reached Number One on the country charts in 1986.

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

Production

• Recorded by Willie Pevear – recording
• Overdubs by Bob Bullock – overdubs
• Chuck Ainlay – overdubs
• Mixed by Ron Treat – mixingh
• Mark J. Coddington – engineer
• Keith Odle – engineer
• Tim Kish – engineer
• Russ Martin – engineer
• Peter Nash – photography
• Simon Levy – art direction
• Camille Brown – design

Chart positions

Chart (1986)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	1
U.S. Billboard 200	127