Tim McGraw

Every era there are stars that transcend their genre of music. One such Country Music artist is Tim McGraw. Since bursting onto the scene in the 1990’s Tim McGraw has had over 20 songs reach No. 1 on a Billboard chart and has captured many honors including multiple American Music and Grammy Awards.   
 
Any Press is Good Press
McGraw’s self-titled debut album came and went without much notice until a bit of controversy put him on the Country Music map. The first single from Not a Moment Too Soon, McGraw’s second album, was “Indian Outlaw.” The song caused controversy because some believed it portrayed Native Americans negatively, but the bad press only helped McGraw sell records.  
 
He followed the controversial song with “Don’t Take The Girl” and other hits as the album went on to be named Album of the Year by the Academy of Country Music.  
 
Love is in the Air
Faith Hill joined McGraw for the Spontaneous Combustion tour in 1996. Later that year the two married. Since then the duo has combined on several hit singles including “It’s Your Love”, “Just to Hear You Say That You Love Me”, and “Like We Never Loved at All”. The couple has three daughters.  
 
Racking Up the Honors
McGraw has become one of the most decorated stars in the entire music industry over the course of his career. He has been named a winner at the Grammy Awards on four occasions and has collected a pair of wins at the American Music Awards. He has also been named Top Male Vocalist by the Academy of Country Music and Male Vocalist of the Year by the Country Music Association multiple times. He was named 2001 Entertainer of the Year by the CMA as well.  
 
Other than his debut release, McGraw has enjoyed much success with each album. He has had four albums go to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and 10 of his past 11 albums reach the top spot on Billboard’s Country chart. His 2002 release Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors is the lone album to not reach No. 1, peaking at the second spot.  
 
Branching Out
McGraw has spent much of the past few years branching out from the Country Music world. In 2004 he collaborated with hip-hop star Nelly to release the single “Over and Over”. The hit reached No. 1 on the Billboard Pop 100 chart and No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and was certified Gold.   The Country star has also shown his flexibility by adding numerous acting credits to his résumé. He appeared in the movies Friday Night Lights (2004), Flicka (2006) and The Kingdom (2007) and will share the screen with Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn in 2008 in Four Christmases.      
 
Tim McGraw Hit Albums and Singles    

 
 
 
 
 
 
Tim McGraw Awards & Recognition

• 1994 – Academy of Country Music Top New Male Vocalist, Album of the Year
• 1995 – American Music Awards Favorite New Artist
• 1997 – CMA Vocal Event of the Year
• 1997 – Academy of Country Music Single of the Year, Song of the Year, Video of the Year, Vocal Event of the Year
• 1998 – CMA Album of the Year
• 1998 – Academy of Country Music Top Male Vocalist, Vocal Event of the Year
• 1999 – CMA Entertainer of the Year, Male Vocalist of the Year
• 1999 – Academy of Country Music Top Male Vocalist
• 2000 – Grammy Best Country Collaboration With Vocals
• 2000 – CMA Male Vocalist of the Year
• 2001 – CMA Entertainer of the Year
• 2004 – Grammy Best Male Country Performance, Best Country Song
• 2004 – CMA Single of the Year, Song of the Year
• 2005 – Grammy Best Country Collaboration with Vocals
• 2005 – CMT Music Awards Most Inspiring Video of the Year
• 2006 – American Music Awards Favorite Album

  Fun Facts

• McGraw was born May 1, 1967 in Delhi, La.
• Tim has spent his entire career on the same record label, Curb Records.
• Tim’s father Tug McGraw was a Major League Baseball pitcher with the New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies.
• McGraw is one of the few Country musicians to not use studio musicians when recording. His touring band, The Dancehall Doctors, have all worked with Tim since at least 1996.
• Taylor Swift’s debut single was entitled “Tim McGraw”.

 
  Discography
 
  1993 -- Tim McGraw, Curb Records

1. Welcome to the Club
2. Two Steppin’ Mind
3. The Only Thing That I Have Left
4. You Can Take It with You (When You Go)
5. Ain’t No Angels
6. Memory Lane
7. Tears in the Rain
8. What She Left Behind
9. What Room Was the Holiday In
10. I Keep It Under My Hat

  1994 – Not a Moment Too Soon, Curb Records

1. It Doesn’t Get Any Countrier Than This
2. Give It to Me Strait
3. Wouldn’t Want It Any Other Way
4. Down on the Farm
5. Not a Moment Too Soon
6. Indian Outlaw
7. Refried Dreams
8. Don’t Take the Girl
9. 40 Days and 40 Nights
10. Ain’t That Just Like a Dream

  1995 – All I Want, Curb Records

1. All I Want Is a Life
2. She Never Lets It Go to Her Heart
3. Can’t Be Really Gone
4. Maybe We Should Just Sleep on
5. I Didn’t Ask and She Didn’t Say
6. Renegade
7. I Like It, I Love It
8. The Great Divide
9. You Got the Wrong Man
10. Don’t Mention Memphis
11. When She Wakes Up (And Finds Me Gone)
12. That’s Just Me

  1997 – Everywhere, Curb Records

1. Where the Green Grass Grows
2. For a Little While
3. It’s Your Love
4. Ain’t That the Way It Always Ends
5. I Do But I Don’t
6. One of These Days
7. Hard on the Ticker
8. Everywhere
9. Just to See You Smile
10. You Just Get Better All the Time
11. You Turn Me On

  1999 – A Place in the Sun, Curb Records

1. The Trouble with Never
2. Seventeen
3. She’ll Have You Back
4. Somebody Must Be Prayin’ for Me
5. My Best Friend
6. Senorita Margarita
7. Some Things Never Change
8. You Don’t Love Me Anymore
9. Something Like That
10. Please Remember Me
11. Carry On
12. My Next Thirty Years
13. Eyes of a Woman
14. A Place in the Sun

  2000 – Greatest Hits, Curb Records

1. Indian Outlaw
2. Don’t Take the Girl
3. She Never Lets It Go to Her Heart
4. I Like It, I Love It
5. Just to See You Smile
6. It’s Your Love
7. Where the Green Grass Grows
8. For a Little While
9. Please Remember Me
10. Something Like That
11. My Best Friend
12. Maybe We Should Just Sleep on It
13. Down on the Farm
14. My Next Thirty Years
15. Let’s Make Love

  2001 – Set This Circus Down, Curb Records

1. The Cowboy in Me
2. Telluride
3. You Get Used to Somebody
4. Unbroken
5. Things Change
6. Angel Boy
7. Forget About Us
8. Take Me Away from Here
9. Smillin’
10. Set This Circus Down
11. Angry All the Time
12. Let Me Love You
13. Grown Men Don’t Cry
14. Why We Said Goodbye

  2002 – Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors, Curb Records

1. Comfort Me
2. Tickin’ Away
3. Home
4. Red Ragtop
5. That’s Why God Made Mexico
6. Watch the Wind Blow By
7. Illegal
8. Sleep Tonight
9. I Know How To Love You Well
10. Sing Me Home
11. She’s My Kind of Rain
12. Who Are They
13. Real Good Man
14. All We Ever Find
15. Tiny Dancer

  2004 – Live Like You Were Dying, Curb Records

1. How Bad Do You Want It
2. My Old Friend
3. Can’t Tell Me Nothin’
4. Old Town New
5. Live Like You Were Dying
6. Drugs or Jesus
7. Back When
8. Something’s Broken
9. Open Season on My Heart
10. Everybody Hates Me
11. Walk Like a Man
12. Blank Sheet of Paper
13. Just Be Your Tear
14. Do You Want Fries With That
15. Kill Myself
16. We Carry On

  2006 – Greatest Hits, Vol. 2, Curb Records

1. Live Like You Were Dying
2. My Old Friend
3. Like We Never Loved at All
4. The Cowboy in Me
5. When the Stars Go Blue
6. Real Good Man
7. She’s My Kind of Rain
8. Grown Men Don’t Cry
9. Not a Moment Too Soon
10. Watch the Wind Blow By
11. Over and Over
12. Everywhere
13. Beautiful People
14. Red Ragtop
15. My Little Girl
16. I’ve Got Friends That Do

  2007 – Let it Go, Curb Records

1. Last Dollar
2. I’m Workin’
3. Let It Go
4. Whiskey And You
5. Suspicions
6. Kristofferson
7. Put Your Lovin’ On Me
8. Nothin’ To Die For
9. Between the River And Me
10. Train #10
11. I Need You
12. Comin’ Home
13. Shotgun Rider