Watershed sells out in 10 minutes
More than 25,000 three-day passes were sold for the third annual music and camping festival from Aug. 1-3 at the Gorge Amphitheatre. Tim McGraw, Lady Antebellum, Jake Owen are on the bill along with Billy Currington, Eli Young Band, Joe Diffie, Randy Houser, Justin Moore, Kip Moore, Cassadee Pope, Chase Rice and Dallas Smith.
"The fans for this festival, or 'shedders' as we call them, came out in full force," said Brian O'Connell, creator of Watershed Music Festival and Live Nation President of Country Touring. "Our website actually crashed for a bit. We got everything up and running again but the response has been overwhelming to say the least. Every year we strive to make the festival the best we can for both the fans and artists, I think we're on our way to making this the craziest hillbilly sleepover ever."
More news for Tim McGraw
- 03/07/25: McGraw enlists McCollum to make "Paper Umbrellas"
- 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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