McGraw to star with Paltrow in film about country singer
Garrett Hedlund and Leighton Meester also will star in Screen Gems' country singing drama "Love Don't Let Me Down," which Shana Feste, who was behind "The Greatest," wrote and is directing.
Hedlund plays a young rising singer-songwriter, who becomes involved with a down on her luck country singer played by Paltrow. They join on a career resurrection tour with her husband-manager (McGraw) and a beauty queen-turned-singer (Meester).
Production is slated to start in January 2010 in Nashville.
McGraw is currently in the successful film "The Blind Side." Hedlund recently finished shooting Disney's "Tron Legacy." McGraw and Hedlund were father and son in Universal's "Friday Night Lights." Meester, best known for her work in "Gossip Girl," is featured in "The Roommate," slated to open in September 2010.
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- 07/31/23: It's Standing Room Only for McGraw's tour
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- 12/10/21: McGraw announces '22 tour
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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