McGraw awaits Sundown
Beginning on Sunday, April 6, during his performance on the ACM Awards, McGraw will launch "Countdown To Sundown." Fans can join the program and automatically have access to exclusive content and be entered to win a season pass for two tickets to each of McGraw's summer tour dates including an all expense paid trip to the tour's opening night on May 8.
As the lead-up to the release, McGraw will reveal new songs from the album through major primetime television performances and provide fans with access to free downloads, first listens, behind the scenes looks, tour experiences and contests.
"When you finish making an album, all you want is to have everyone hear it as soon as possible," said McGraw. "I'm in the unique position this year that I'm able to tour ahead of the album and introduce the fans to these songs early. I've never done anything like this before, but in a world driven by immediate gratification, I want to be able to play a song live somewhere and then have it available for download right then. You just never know where new music might pop up over the next few months... It's going to be a fun summer."
On May 8, McGraw will kick off his tour to more than 30 cities. Joining him for the summer run will be Kip Moore and Cassadee Pope.
McGraw is set to perform at the 2014 NCAA March Madness Music Festival on Saturday, April 5 in Dallas. From there, he'll head to Las Vegas for the 49th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards where he tops the list of most nominated artists with seven for his "Two Lanes of Freedom" album as both an artist and producer.
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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