| Martina McBride Born Martina Schiff, she was raised making music on a farm in tiny Sharon, Kansas. Her dad, Daryl Schiff, had a band that rehearsed every week in the family?s house. When she was 7 and little brother Marty was 5, they joined the group. ?There wasn?t much to do growing up on a farm. We had three channels on the TV, one of which was fuzzy. Marty and I would come home from school and we were kind of isolated. There were no neighborhood kids. There was no convenience store. No video games. But we always had musical instruments. Our play time was sitting around making music and singing together.? ?We played wedding dances, VFW halls, American Legion posts and things like that. My mom ran the soundboard. I played keyboards and sang. My brother played guitar and steel. My dad led the band, played guitar and sang. I did that every Saturday night until I graduated from high school.? ?Satin Sheets? and ?Help Me Make it Through the Night? were in her repertoire as a young girl. Daryl Schiff sang ?Heartaches by the Number,? ?I?ll Be There? and several of the other standards. But it wasn?t only nostalgia that prompted the recording of Timeless. These performances have been smoldering inside Martina McBride since the dawn of her recording career. ?I?ve always wanted to make a traditional country album and I?d say that every time I?d start a record. Then I?d gather songs that always kind of led me in another direction. But it has always been in my heart to do a record like this.? ?This album came about as a result of a project I was doing for Hallmark (2005?s My Heart). I decided to record "Together Again" for that record. After it was finished, I said, ?I wish I could do a whole album of this stuff.? I went to the head of my record company and said, ?I have a crazy idea that I want to do a whole album of classic country music.? He said, ?I think that?s great. Do it.? And from then on, we were off and running.? ?It was her concept, all the way,? says Paul Worley. ?She had the image in her head of what it should sound like. Once the magic started happening on the very first song, we all had the sense that we were doing something historic. And something that people were really going to love.? | 
