George Strait is set to release his highly anticipated 40th studio album, Love Is Everything, on Tuesday (May 14th). The King of Country rejoined veteran producer Tony Brown to co-produce the album, which features 13 new tracks, including the current hit single “Give It All We Got Tonight.” Love Is Everything includes four songs written or co-written by Strait, as well as with his son Bubba and legendary songwriter Dean Dillon.

With the new album’s first single “Give It All We Got Tonight” climbing the Country radio charts, the song is poised to become Strait’s 60th #1 single. Fans and fellow Country artists recently started campaigning for the Sixty For Sixty movement, which encourages local radio stations to make the song his 60th #1 single around his 61st birthday on May 18th.

George is also making the rounds as his final tour, The Cowboy Rides Away, makes its way around the country.

AUDIO: George Strait talks about how being in the studio for him has changed over the years.

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“Oh, I’m definitely a lot more comfortable in the studio these days. It took me a while. I mean, when you go in the studio for the first time with some pretty great players, and it’s pretty intimidating, it was for me anyway. I was nervous, really nervous, and I’m sure it showed. But I think as you continue to make records and stuff, you get a little more comfortable in the studio. A lot of the players are good friends of mine now, and I enjoy seeing them and being with them all week, however long we’re recording. So, it’s fun. I look forward to it these days, not that I didn’t look forward to it then. I was excited as hell to go, you know, I was. Not a whole lot of people get to do that.”