| Product Summary | | Label: Curb Records | | UPC: 00715187915220 | | Release Date: 10/20/2009 | | Buy.com Sku: 212077037 | | Item#: M4RHK4 | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 2010 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Still ~ Tim McGraw |  | | 2. Ghost Town Train ~ Tim McGraw | | | 3. Good Girls ~ Tim McGraw | | | 4. I Didn't Know It At the Time ~ Tim McGraw | | | 5. It's a Business Doing Pleasure With You ~ Tim McGraw | | | 6. If I Died Today ~ Tim McGraw | | | 7. Mr. Whoever You Are ~ Tim McGraw | | | 8. Southern Voice ~ Tim McGraw | | | 9. You Had To Be There ~ Tim McGraw | | | 10. I'm Only Jesus ~ Tim McGraw | | | 11. Forever Seventeen ~ Tim McGraw | | | 12. Love You Goodbye ~ Tim McGraw | |
| | Southern Voice is Tim McGraw's tenth studio album, and his first in over two years, is extending his achievements even further. Recorded with his longtime producer, Byron Gallimore (Faith Hill, Sugarland), the disc's twelve songs represent a new level of depth and intensity for the singer from the small town of Start, Louisiana; they tell unforgettable stories of lives lived and lessons learned, and reveal a man staring down what it means to be a father, a husband, a Southerner. Track Listing
1. Still
2. Ghost Town Train
3. Good Girls
4. I Didn't Know It At The Time
5. It's A Business Doing Pleasure With You
6. If I Died Today
7. Mr. Whoever You Are
8. Southern Voice
9. You Had To Be There
10. I'm Only Jesus
11. Forever Seventeen
12. Love You Goodbye
| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel: Bob Minner (acoustic guitar); Denny Hemingson (electric guitar, steel guitar); Darran Smith (electric guitar); Dean Brown (mandolin, fiddle); Jeff McMahon (piano, Wurlitzer organ, synthesizer); Billy Mason (drums); David Dunkley (congas, percussion). | | Audio Mixers: Tim McGraw; Byron Gallimore. | | Photographer: Danny Clinch. | | Based on title alone, it would seem that SOUTHERN VOICE picks up on the harder country edges of LET IT GO, but that's not the case: this is Tim McGraw's rockiest album yet, opening with a slow, spacy crawl called "Still" that would not be out of place on a record by a U2 knockoff and taking the occasional detour to Nickelback territory on the Chad Kroeger co-written "It's a Business Doing Pleasure with You." That tune bristles with Kroeger's barely veiled, unwitting hostility, something that the big-hearted McGraw doesn't wear well and it's something he wisely side-steps on the rest of the record, choosing to mine a sentimental, meditative vein, musing on major changes in his life and wondering what will happen after he's gone. Such big themes fit both the big, atmospheric rock sounds and the reflective acoustic ballads well, creating an inward vibe that is occasionally punctuated by a rocker, like the laundry list of great Southern names on the title track. |
Producer: Tim McGraw; Darran Smith; Byron Gallimore |
Engineer: Sara Lesher; Erik Lutkins |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 10/20/2009 | | Original Release Date : 2009 | | Catalog ID : 79152 | | Label : Curb Records (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00715187915220 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Entertainment Weekly (p.58)
- "McGraw clearly knows his country touchstones, spinning vivid tales from both the Good Book and jailbird dads." -- Grade: BBillboard (p.32)
- "Standout tracks include 'Ghost Town Train,' which echoes the work of Glen Campbell, and 'Good Girls,' a dark tale of cheating with an unexpected twist." |
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| | Bio | | | Tim McGrawWhen Tim McGraw debuted in the early '90s, few would have predicted that he would eventually take over Garth Brooks' position as the most popular male singer in country music. Yet that's exactly what he did, thanks to a string of multi-platinum albums, a high-profile marriage to fellow superstar Faith Hill, and Brooks' own inevitable decline. His sound epitomized the strain of commercial country that dominated his era: updated honky tonk and Southern-fried country-rock on the uptempo tunes, well-polished, adult contemporary-tinged pop on the ballads. Helped out early in his career by several novelty items, McGraw simply wound up cranking out hookier hits on a more consistent basis than any of his peers. By the late '90s, he was not only a superstar among country fans, but a mainstream celebrity with a large female following. Released in 2001, Set This Circus Down (number one country, number two pop) kept McGraw's hit streak going into the new millennium, giving him four more number ones -- "Grown Men Don't Cry," "Angry All the Time," "The Cowboy in Me," and "Unbroken" -- just like that. In 2002, his duet with prot?g?e Jo Dee Messina, "Bring on the Rain," also went to number one. For the follow-up album, McGraw defied country convention by entering the studio not with session musicians, but with his road band, the Dancehall Doctors, a unit that had been together since 1996 (with some members around even before that). Tim McGraw was released in late 2002 and produced Top Ten hits in "Red Rag Top" and "She's My Kind of Rain"; it also featured a startlingly faithful cover of Elton John's "Tiny Dancer." McGraw kept the formula the same on 2004's chart-topping Live Like You Were Dying, utilizing his road band, as well as co-mixing/producing the record himself. Let It Go followed in 2007, with Southern Voice arriving in 2009.
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