McGraw said the whole family went to the One Direction concert in Nashville in August. Daughters Gracie, 17, Maggie, 16, and Audrey, 12, bring new music into their house all the time.Īnd sometimes they even drag their dad out to see it. McGraw does have a different set of influences than he had 20 years ago - three of them, to be exact. If you look at the handful of artists who took us all well into their 50s or even 60 with George Strait, they always experimented and they never lost sight of their core." "You look at his whole body of work and he has such an appetite for great songs and he's never done, he never stops looking. "I don't think there is a better artist anywhere that knows when he hears a song that's right for him," said Borchetta. Scott Borchetta, president and CEO of Big Machine Label Group, McGraw's label, believes it's McGraw's ability to choose hit songs that has sustained his career for more than two decades. There are artists at this stage of Tim's career where they start mailing it in. "He really, really loves music and wants to give people not just something like rice cakes. "He's a good man, but he's still an artist," said Brad Warren. The Warren boys, as McGraw calls them, have written 20 songs that he's recorded including "Felt Good on My Lips," last summer's smash "Highway Don't Care" and four songs on "Sundown Heaven Town." Their families even vacation together. Songwriter Brad Warren has known McGraw since the late '90s when he and his brother Brett Warren went on tour with Hill. I just want to find good songs I want to put my stamp on." "We're still trying to do music and not trying to fit into any conformity, but still knowing I'm a country singer and that when I open my mouth, it's going to be country because that's who I am. "Here we are 20 years later and we're still trying to do music that means something to me," McGraw said. McGraw said he launched "Sundown Heaven Town" just like he launched his career - he stirred the pot a little bit in 1994 with "Indian Outlaw" and then simmered it down some with "Don't Take the Girl." He's fine with that kind of history repeating itself. There are songs that push the boundaries of country music, like the album's lead single, "Lookin' for That Girl," and more traditional country songs including "Meanwhile Back at Mama's." There also are happy feel-good tunes, love songs, some social commentary and, of course, the stories. McGraw's new album, "Sundown Heaven Town," which will be available Tuesday, is packed with the same staples that McGraw has relied on his entire career. 1 song in 1994, McGraw has picked up 23 additional Billboard chart-toppers, including his 2004 seven-week smash "Live Like You Were Dying." More recent No.1's include "Felt Good on My Lips" and "Southern Voice," and McGraw's last single, "Meanwhile Back at Mama's" - a duet with wife Faith Hill - is his 54th Top 10 song. It's about communication, telling stories and doing things the way that I do them." It's not about me being this great vocalist. "From the very beginning, I knew that I wasn't going to go in and sing the phone book and make people think that I'm great," said McGraw, perched on the edge of a chair in a Nashville recording studio. Related: McGraw got sober for wife Faith Hill Related: Tim McGraw rides 'Shotgun' with new feel-good song He banked on his talent for spinning a tale. 1 song, "Don't Take the Girl," McGraw describes his ability on the instrument as "very average."īut the country singer and actor never planned to build a career around the agility of his fingers or his ability to hit high notes. To this day, 20 years after he charted his first No. It worked, too, he said, but he wasn't - and still isn't - very good at guitar. Tim McGraw learned how to play guitar in college to get girls.
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