The Tim McGraw Handbook - Everything you need to know about Tim McGraw

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Samuel Timothy "Tim" McGraw (born May 1, 1967) is an American singer, songwriter and actor. Many of McGraw's albums and singles have topped the country music charts with total album sales in excess of 40 million units in the US, making him the eighth best-selling artist, and the third best-selling country singer, in the Soundscan era. He is married to country singer Faith Hill and is the son of the late baseball player Tug McGraw.
McGraw had 11 consecutive albums debut at Number One on the Billboard albums charts. Twenty-three singles hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. He has won three Grammys, 14 Academy of Country Music awards, 11 Country Music Association (CMA) awards, 10 American Music Awards, and three People's Choice Awards. His Soul2Soul II Tour with Faith Hill is the highest grossing tour in country music history, and one of the top five among all genres of music.
McGraw has ventured into acting, with supporting roles in The Blind Side (with Sandra Bullock), Friday Night Lights, The Kingdom, and Four Christmases (with Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon), and lead roles in Flicka (2006) and Country Strong (2010). He was a minority owner of the Arena Football League's Nashville Kats. Taylor Swift's debut single, "Tim McGraw", refers to him and his song, "Can't Tell Me Nothin'".
In acknowledgement of his grandfather's Italian heritage, McGraw was honored by the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) in 2004, receiving the NIAF Special Achievement Award in Music during the Foundation's 29th Anniversary Gala.

This book is your ultimate resource for Tim McGraw. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, photos, and much more.

In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Tim McGraw's Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Tim McGraw, A Place in the Sun (Tim McGraw album), All I Want (Tim McGraw album), All I Want Is a Life, Angry All the Time, Asleep at the Wheel, Back When, Better Than I Used to Be (song), Big Machine Records, Billy Mason, Breathe (Faith Hill album), Bring On the Rain, Brothers of the Sun Tour, Bud Adams, Byron Gallimore, C2C: Country to Country, Can't Be Really Gone, Country Music Association Awards, Country music, Curb Records, Def Leppard, Delhi, Louisiana, Dirty Girl (2010 film), Dixie Chicks, Don't Take the Girl, Down on the Farm (song), Emotional Traffic, Everywhere (Tim McGraw album), Everywhere (Tim McGraw song), Faith (Faith Hill album), Faith Hill, Find Out Who Your Friends Are, Flicka, For the Love…and more pages!

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• Publié par: Emereo Publishing
• Date de parution: 31 mai 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781488507625
• Langue: English
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Contents

Articles Tim McGraw A Place in the Sun (Tim McGraw album) All I Want (Tim McGraw album) All I Want Is a Life Angry All the Time Asleep at the Wheel Back When Better Than I Used to Be (song) Big Machine Records Billy Mason Breathe (Faith Hill album) Bring On the Rain Brothers of the Sun Tour Bud Adams Byron Gallimore C2C: Country to Country Can't Be Really Gone Country Music Association Awards Country music Curb Records Def Leppard Delhi, Louisiana Dirty Girl (2010 film) Dixie Chicks Don't Take the Girl Down on the Farm (song) Emotional Traffic Everywhere (Tim McGraw album) Everywhere (Tim McGraw song) Faith (Faith Hill album) Faith Hill Find Out Who Your Friends Are Flicka For the Love

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Four Christmases Friday Night Lights (film) Greatest Hits: Limited Edition Greatest Hits (Tim McGraw album) Greatest Hits 3 (Tim McGraw album) Grown Men Don't Cry Gwyneth Paltrow Halfway to Hazard Halfway to Hazard (album) I Like It, I Love It If You're Reading This Indian Outlaw It's Your Love Jo Dee Messina Juno Temple Just to Hear You Say That You Love Me Just to See You Smile Kenny Chesney Kim Carnes Last Dollar (Fly Away) Let's Make Love (song) Let It Go (Tim McGraw album) Let It Go (Tim McGraw song) Live Like You Were Dying Live Like You Were Dying (song) MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance Martina McBride Maybe We Should Just Sleep on It Michael Oher Milla Jovovich My Best Friend (song) My Little Girl (song) My Next Thirty Years Nashville Kats Nelly Not a Moment Too Soon Not a Moment Too Soon (song) Nothin' to Die For

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Number One Hits One of Those Nights (Tim McGraw song) Over and Over (Nelly song) Please Remember Me Radio Music Awards Real Good Man Reflected: Greatest Hits Vol. 2

Refried Dreams Sean Tuohy Set This Circus Down She's My Kind of Rain She Never Lets It Go to Her Heart Some Things Never Change Something Like That Songs from the Sparkle Lounge Soul2Soul II Tour Soul2Soul Tour Southern Voice (album) Start, Louisiana Taylor Swift

The Blind Side (film) The Cowboy in Me The Jeff Foxworthy Show The Kingdom (film) The Warren Brothers Tim McGraw (album) Tim McGraw (song) Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors Tim McGraw discography Tiny Dancer Tracy Lawrence Truck Yeah Tug McGraw Two Lanes of Freedom Unbroken (Tim McGraw song) Where the Green Grass Grows Who Do You Think You Are? (U.S. TV series)

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Tim McGraw

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Tim McGraw performing at a Soul Tour in 2006.

Background information

Samuel Timothy McGraw

May 1, 1967 Delhi, Louisiana, U.S.

Start, Louisiana, U.S.

Country

Singer, songwriter, actor

Vocals, guitar, piano

1992–present

Curb Big Machine

Faith Hill, The Dancehall Doctors, Byron Gallimore, Jo Dee Messina, Nelly

[1] timmcgraw.com

Samuel Timothy "Tim" McGraw(born May 1, 1967) is an American country singer and actor. Many of McGraw's albums and singles have topped the country music charts with total album sales in excess of 40 million units in the [2] US, making him the eighth best-selling artist, and the third best-selling country singer, in the Soundscan era. He is married to country singer Faith Hill and is the son of the late baseball player Tug McGraw.

McGraw had 11 consecutive albums debut at Number One on theBillboardalbums charts. Twenty-one singles hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. He has won three Grammys, 14 Academy of Country Music awards, 11 Country Music Association (CMA) awards, 10 American Music Awards, and three People's Choice Awards. His Soul2Soul II Tour with Faith Hill is the highest grossing tour in country music history, and one of the [] top five among all genres of music.

McGraw has ventured into acting, with supporting roles inThe Blind Side(with Sandra Bullock),Friday Night Lights,The Kingdom, andFour Christmases(with Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon), and lead roles inFlicka (2006) andCountry Strong(2010). He was a minority owner of the Arena Football League's Nashville Kats. Taylor

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[3] Swift's debut single, "Tim McGraw", refers to him and his song, "Can't Tell Me Nothin'". In acknowledgement of his grandfather's Italian heritage, McGraw was honored by the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) in 2004, receiving the NIAF Special Achievement Award in Music during the Foundation's 29th Anniversary Gala.

Early life He was born Samuel Timothy McGraw in Delhi, Louisiana, to Elizabeth "Betty" Ann D'Agostino, a waitress, and Frank Edwin "Tug" McGraw Jr., who would later become a relief pitcher for the New York Mets and the Philadelphia Phillies. McGraw is of Italian and some Irish descent on his mother's side, and of Scots-Irish and distant [4][] German descent on his father's side. In 1966, Tug was a pitcher for the Jacksonville Suns, and he lived in an apartment above Betty D'Agostino, who attended Terry Parker High School. The pair had a relationship, and when [] Betty became pregnant, her parents sent her to Louisiana to live with relatives and to have the baby. Reared by his mother in Start, also in Richland Parish, east of Monroe, McGraw grew up believing his stepfather, Horace Smith, was his father. From the time of his mother's marriage until the time he met his biological father, his last name was Smith. At age 11, McGraw discovered his birth certificate while searching his mother's closet to look for Christmas presents. After his discovery, his mother revealed that his biological father was Tug McGraw, [] and took Tim to meet him for the first time. For seven years, Tug denied being Tim's father. Tim was 18 years old when Tug first realized how much Tim looked like him at that age, and he Start, Louisiana, welcome sign notes that McGraw acknowledged paternity. They remained close until Tug's death in once resided there. 2004.

As a child, McGraw loved to play competitive sports, including baseball, even though he did not know his natural [] father was a professional athlete. He attended Northeast Louisiana University, now the University of Louisiana at [] [] Monroe, on a baseball scholarship, and became a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity. During his college period, he learned to play guitar, and would frequently perform and sing for tips, although he claims that his roommates often hid the guitar because he was so bad.

His mother, Betty, returned to Jacksonville, Florida in 1987, and McGraw followed. He attended Florida Community [] College at Jacksonville for one term, and occasionally sat in with local bands. In 1989, on the day his hero Keith [] [] Whitley died, McGraw dropped out of college to head to Nashville and pursue a musical career.

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1990s

Tim McGraw

McGraw came to the attention of Curb Records in 1992. After cutting a demo single, McGraw gave a copy to his father, Tug McGraw. A man who was friends with Curb Records executives heard the demo while driving with Tug McGraw one day and recommended that Curb contact the young singer. Several weeks later, he was able to play his tape for Curb executives, after which they signed him to a recording [] contract. Two years later, in 1992, he had his first minor hit with "Welcome to the Club" off his self-titled debut album. Although the album failed to make much of a dent on the charts, McGraw did have two other minor hits from it in 1993: "Memory Lane" and "Two [] Steppin Mind".

Tim McGraw's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Not a Moment Too Soon His second album,Not a Moment Too Soon, was much more successful, becoming the best-selling country album in 1994. The first single, "Indian Outlaw", caused considerable controversy, as critics argued that it presented Native [] [] Americans in a patronizing way. Some radio stations refused to play it, but the controversy helped spur sales, and the song became McGraw's first top-ten country single (getting as high as No. 8), and reaching No. 15 on the pop [] chart. The second single from the album, "Don't Take the Girl", became McGraw's first No. 1 country hit, and "helped [] cement his image as a ruggedly good-looking guy with a sensitive side". The following year, the album's title track became a No. 1 country single, while "Down on the Farm" reached No. 2, and "Refried Dreams" reached the top 5. [] The album sold over 6 million copies, topping the Billboard 200 as well as the country album charts. On the strength of this success, McGraw won Academy of Country Music awards for Album of the Year and Top New [] Male Vocalist in 1994.

All I Want All I Want1 on the country charts. The album sold, released in 1995, continued his run of success, debuting at No. over 2 million copies and reached the top 5 on the Billboard 200. "I Like It, I Love It" reached No. 1 on the country charts as the lead-off single, while "She Never Lets It Go to Her Heart" also went to No. 1 in 1996. "Can't Be Really [] Gone", "All I Want Is a Life", and "Maybe We Should Just Sleep on It" were all top 5 hits. In 1996, McGraw headlined the most successful country tour of the year, The Spontaneous Combustion Tour, with Faith Hill as his supporting act. Faith Hill broke off her engagement to her former producer Scott Hendricks so that she and McGraw could start dating each other; they then married on October 6, 1996. The couple have since had three daughters: Gracie Katherine (born May 1997), Maggie Elizabeth (born August 1998), and Audrey Caroline [] (born December 2001).

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Everywhere McGraw's next album, 1997'sEverywhere2 on the album charts,, again topped the country charts and reached No. [] selling 4 million copies. Four singles ("It's Your Love", "Everywhere", "Where the Green Grass Grows", and "Just to See You Smile") reached the top of the country charts from the album, with the last of these setting a new record [] by spending 42 weeks on the Billboard charts. The Country Music Association awardedEverywhereits Album of the Year award for 1997.

A Place in the Sun [] A Place in the Sunin 1999 continued McGraw's streak, debuting atop both the US pop and country album charts and selling 3 million albums. It featured another four chart-topping singles on the country charts including "Please Remember Me", "Something Like That", "My Best Friend", and "My Next Thirty Years". "Some Things Never [] Change" reached No. 7 on the country chart. He also contributed a song for the Grammy-winning tribute album to Bob Wills:Ride With Bob.His song, a cover of "Milk Cow Blues", was recorded as a duet with Asleep at the Wheel, [] whom he had met while performing together at the George Strait Country Music Festival. McGraw recorded two more duets with his wife in the late 1990s, both of which appeared on her albums. "Just to Hear You Say That You Love Me", off of her multi-platinum 1998 albumFaith, reached the top five of the US [] country charts, while her follow-up and 1999 albumBreathefeatured "Let's Make Love", which would win a [] Grammy Award in 2000 for Best Country Vocal Collaboration.

2000s

Greatest Hits In 2000, McGraw released hisGreatest Hitsalbum, which topped the charts for nine weeks and sold almost 6 million copies, making it one of the biggest-selling albums in the modern country market. In the latter half of the year, he and Hill went out on the Soul2Soul Tour, playing to sellout crowds in 64 venues, including Madison Square [] Garden. It was one of the top tours of any genre in the US, and the leading country tour during 2000. While in Buffalo, New York, McGraw and Kenny Chesney became involved in a scuffle with police officers after Chesney attempted to ride a police horse. McGraw came to Chesney's aid after police officers nearby believed the horse was being stolen and tried to arrest him. The two were arrested and charged with assault, but were later cleared. During a concert with the George Strait Country Music Festival several weeks later, Hill, dressed as a police [] officer, made an unscheduled appearance at the end of McGraw's set and led him off the stage.

Set This Circus Down McGraw's next album,Set This Circus Down, was released in April 2001, and spawned four number-one country hits: "Grown Men Don't Cry", "Angry All the Time" (with Faith Hill), "The Cowboy in Me", and "Unbroken". He provided harmony vocals for the Jo Dee Messina song "Bring On the Rain", which he also produced. The song [] topped the country charts. Hungry for more of his music, fans downloaded a version of his performance of the song "Things Change" from his appearance at the Country Music Association Awards Show. The song was played extensively on radio, becoming [] the first country song to appear on the charts from a fully downloaded version.

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Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors In 2002, McGraw bucked country music traditions by recording his albumTim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors with his tour band The Dancehall Doctors. Unlike rock music, where it is commonplace for touring bands to provide the music on albums recorded by the artist they support, country albums are typically recorded with session [5] musicians. McGraw chose to use his own touring band, in order to recognize their part in his success, and to [] capture some of the feel of a real band. All of the Dancehall Doctors have worked with McGraw since at least 1996. They include: a Darran Smith–lead guitar, acoustic guitar a Bob Minner–rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, banjo, mandolin a Denny Hemingson–steel guitar, electric, baritone, and slide guitars, dobro a John Marcus–bass guitar a Dean Brown–fiddle, mandolin a Jeff McMahon–piano, organ, synthesizer, keyboards a Billy Mason–drums [] a David Dunkley–percussion [] The album debuted at No. 2 on the country albums charts, with the single "Real Good Man" reaching No. 1 on the Hot Country Songs chart. "She's My Kind of Rain" reached No. 2 in 2003, and "Red Ragtop" reached the top 5. The album also featured a cover version of Elton John's early 1970s classic "Tiny Dancer", as well as appearances by Kim Carnes on "Comfort Me" (a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks) and Don Henley and Timothy B. Schmit of the Eagles on "Illegal".

Live Like You Were Dying

2004'sLive Like You Were Dyingcontinued McGraw's record of commercial success. The title track, dedicated to his father Tug McGraw, who died of a brain tumor earlier in the year, was a soaring [] ode to living life fully and in the moment, while the second single "Back When" was a paean to an easy nostalgia.Live Like You Were Dying1 on Billboard (10seven non-consecutive weeks at No.  spent weeks on Radio & Records), and went on to become the biggest hit single of the year. It also became one of the most awarded songs/records by winning ACM Single and Song of the Year, CMA Single and Song of the Year, and a Grammy.

In late 2004, his unlikely duet with hip-hop artist Nelly on "Over and [6] Over", a soft ballad of lost love, became a crossover hit, spending 10 weeks atop the Top 40 chart. "Over and Over" brought McGraw a success he had never previously experienced on contemporary hit radio or rap radio, and brought both artists success neither had previously experienced in the hot adult contemporary market. The song also spent a week at the top of the charts in the United Kingdom, becoming McGraw's first British hit single and Nelly's third number one hit in the country after Dilemma and My Place. 'Over and Over' also reached the top of the charts in Australia, New Zealand and the Republic of Ireland, and the top ten in Austria, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Romania and Switzerland.

Tim McGraw performing for the United States Air Force in 2003

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