The title track is one of George's most famous songs but, perhaps surprisingly, is the only number one country hit from this chart (based on Billboard). The two other singles (The cowboy rides away, The fireman) both made the top five in the country charts.

Overall, this album is typical of George's early albums with its mix of ballads and western swing-influenced up-tempo songs. Instrumentation consists of steel, electric and acoustic guitars together with fiddle, mandolin, keyboards, bass and drums. Apart from the three tracks released as singles, I particularly like Any old time, You're dancing this dance all wrong and Honky tonk Saturday night.

If you enjoy George's music enough to want more than just the hits, you will derive a lot of enjoyment from this album.

This is top notch George, and there is not a bad song on it. "Honky Tonk Saturday Night" is a real highlight here because you can't get it on "Strait Out Of The Box". With country classics like "The Fireman", and the title track, on it, it should be viewed as one of his best CDs. Something else great about it, is that you cannot get most of the other songs, anywhere else. So if you are a GS fan, you should have it in your collection.

I am an avid George Strait fan. This is another CD of great country songs. I listen to it frequently. Wonderful songs.

This album is a country standard and the cornerstone of George Strait's career. We all know and love the singles (the title track, "The Cowboy Rides Away," and the irresistible "The Fireman"), but it's the rest of the album that really shines. It's certainly more than "filler."

"Any Old Time" is a quick, breezy, fun sing-a-long with playful fiddle and guitar work. "I Need Someone Like Me," "Honky Tonk Saturday Night," "I Should Have Watched That First Step," and "What Did You Expect Me to Do" are toe-tapping honky-tonk numbers; songs you might think you want to skip until you get about ten seconds into them and start singing along. "Love Comes from the Other Side of Town" juxtaposes a light-hearted melody and arrangement with a pretty serious subject, cheating. Kind of like the country version of a punk rock idea, I guess. Regardless, it's too catchy to ignore.

The standout track on this album is the ballad "You're Dancin' This Dance All Wrong," my favorite GS song other than "The Chair." It's a bittersweet love ballad, celebrating a new love and looking back on an old one. Any other singer would have either slaughtered this song or turned it into a gaudy showcase for his voice, but GS's (as always) low-key, human delivery makes this song perfect.

This album is really best listened to in one sitting. And at under thirty minutes, that's not much of a problem. I give it my highest recommendation.

There are alot of slow songs on this album but I think he nailed his slow songs much better in albums like Beyond the blue neon. Does Fort Worth Ever Cross your mind was the first record co- produced by George Strait so while his first 3 were a little more country pop this is a big change with slower songs and a more introverted sound. It's not real bad or anything it is just a little on the low key side but not until the very last song The Fireman which is in my opinion the best song on the whole thing. Too bad the others were not like the The Fireman the other 2 singles are also very good the title track and Cowboy Rides Away are very well done. Honky Tonk Saturday night and Your dancin this dance all wrong are also very good. This was a good album it did win album of the year in 1985 but it was not that exciting and there are some songs like Any old time which lack feeling and some others. If you never heard this cd before you be the judge listen to the samples see if you like it before you buy. Overall just average in my book. This guy has many great albums and out of all the great albums that he made in the 1980's this one seems shockingly my least bit favorite. This may be his only album of the year award in the 80's but this record did not even compare to great stuff like Ocean Front Property, Something Special,#7, and Beyond the blue neon, and Chill of an early fall which were outstanding albums but never got the award they deserved.