McGraw launches "Southern Voice" on TV today
The concert will be streamed on the Late Show website at www.cbs.com/late_night/late_show tonight at approximately 8 p.m. eastern and will also be simulcast live on 11 CBS radio country music stations across the country. McGraw will return to the Friday, Oct. 16 for a performance and an interview with Letterman.
He also will perform on Today Oct. 23 as part of the Toyota Concert Series on Rockefeller Plaza, The Jay Leno Show on Oct. 27, where he'll be joined by special guest Gregg Allman, and Ellen on Oct. 29. "Southern Voice," McGraw's first studio album in two and a half years, will be released on Oct. 20 by Curb Records and he will play a very special show that evening at Joe's Bar in Chicago with special guest Chris Young. Proceeds from the sold-out show will go to The Neighbor's Keeper Fund of the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee, a charitable fund created by McGraw and his wife, Faith Hill.
Recorded with his longtime producer, Byron Gallimore (Faith Hill, Sugarland), the disc contains 12 songs.
McGraw also co-stars with Sandra Bullock in the upcoming film "The Blind Side," scheduled for release on Nov. 20. McGraw's previous films include "Friday Night Lights" (2004), "Flicka" (2006), "The Kingdom" (2007) and "Four Christmases" (2008).
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- 10/11/24: McGraw releases "People Like Us"
- 01/29/24: McGraw has "One Bad Habit," also names opening acts for tour
- 11/21/23: McGraw drops surprise EP
- 09/25/23: McGraw expands Standing Room Only Tour
- 07/31/23: It's Standing Room Only for McGraw's tour
- 06/26/23: It's "Standing Room Only" for McGraw
- 04/27/23: It's "Standing Room Only" for McGraw's video
CD reviews for Tim McGraw
Tim McGraw's collection, "Here on Earth," finds the country star sounding peaceful and down to Earth. He's more meditative than overly active, throughout. It's very much an adult album in that McGraw is speaking from the perspective of maturity, rather than pretending he's still a young man. If he's got any barbecue statins on his white t-shirt, he's not letting on here.
McGraw burns through five mellow tracks before he gets to anything with a discernable beat. ...
Tim McGraw said of his 14th studio album, "Damn Country Music," "It's is all about passion, (taking him back to 1989) "when I came to Nashville to chase my dreams."
Country music has richly rewarded him over the past two decades, and he honors the genre's tradition here. The album gets off to a very traditional start with Celtic folk. The flute and skillful acoustic picking on the opener "Here Tonight" bring a Mark Knopfler tune immediately to mind. ...
The banjo comes first out of the speakers, the opening strains of "Overrated," the lead-off song on Tim McGraw's latest. But with a "1-2-3-4" count, the mood changes and goes for a more modern country approach. McGraw does about the same on the follow-up "City Lights" with Michael Landau's steely, but rocking lead guitar taking over near the conclusion as it does later hard on "Sick of Me" where the protagonist contemplates a need to turn his life around. ...
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