Location: Pearsall

Pearsall, Texas is legendary in country music history as the formative hometown of the “King of Country,” George Strait. Strait spent his defining adolescent years in this South Texas town, where he first learned to play guitar and performed in rock-and-roll garage bands heavily influenced by the Beatles.

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Pearsall: Pearsall High School

Where a ranch kid joined his first band, fell for country music, and set out to become the King

George Strait's Pearsall High School, where a South Texas ranch kid joined his first band, fell for country music, and set out to become the King.

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