Strait Out of the Box

Strait Out of the Box
Box set by George Strait
Released	September 12, 1995
Recorded	June 1976 – April 10, 1995
Genre	Neotraditional country[1] honky-tonk[1] Western swing[1]
Length	Disc 1 - 51:42 Disc 2 - 53:12 Disc 3 - 59:25 Disc 4 - 52:56 Total - 3:37:15
Label	MCA
Producer	George Strait, Phil Ramone, Blake Mevis, Don Daily, Hank Cattaneo, Tony Brown, Jimmy Bowen, Ray Benson, Ray Baker, Joe Barnhill
George Strait chronology
Lead On (1994) Strait Out of the Box (1995) Blue Clear Sky (1996)
Singles from Strait Out of the Box
"Check Yes or No" Released: September 11, 1995 "I Know She Still Loves Me" Released: December 11, 1995

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Entertainment Weekly	A− [2]
Los Angeles Times	[3]

Strait Out of the Box (retroactively known as Strait Out of the Box: Part 1) is the first box set album by American country music artist George Strait. It contains four albums' worth of music, dating from 1976 to 1995. It mainly consists of Strait's singles, except for a select few that he decided to exclude. They were replaced by his choice of album cuts and several studio outtakes. It also contains his three singles recorded in the 1970s for indie label D Records, one of which, "I Just Can't Go on Dying Like This", was re-recorded for Strait's 2013 album Love Is Everything.^[4]

"Check Yes or No" and "I Know She Still Loves Me" were both released from this set as singles. Respectively, they reached number 1 and number 5 on the Billboard country charts.

The album was certified 8× platinum by the RIAA on July 29, 2003, indicating shipment of 2 million copies.^[5] This made the album at the time the best-performing country music box set of all time, and it was second only to the Live 1975–85 box set by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band overall. It had sold 1,525,100 copies in the United States as of October 2019.^[6]