Tom's Country View

"Fine line between being free and being lonely. It's blood from a stone and stoned on Percocet. He don't believe in God but he's prayin', he'll find something worth sayin', in a new way no one's ever heard it said." (Poet’s Resumé / Lori McKenna, Josh Osborne, Scott Stepakoff)

"After we've written the song, I sent it to Mom, I sent it to Gloria, and I'm sending it to my sister. And slowly but surely now - we still say 'I Love You', because I come from a wonderful line of women that is quick to give you a hug and quick to tell you if they love you or if you have pissed them off. And now we tell each other: 'I'll leave the light on!'" (Ashley McBryde / The Bobby Bones Show, March 3, 2023)

"It’s rare to find a song that has this much lyrical content and this much meaning, it says so much, but still have this sort of high energy. It’s rare to find that combination of not quite a ballad, not quite an up-tempo, but still deep, lyrically." (Tim McGraw / The Bobby Bones Show, March 10, 2023)

"Of course, we gravitated the conversation to Andrew [Dorff] and Alex [LeVasseur/Steele], and being that we're both in this hideous club that no parent should ever be in. We were talking about it, and then came a shrug of the shoulders, 'Who knows why?'" (Steve Dorff / people.com, September 24, 2022)

"He said I was in my early 40's, With a lot of life before me, And a moment came that stopped me on a dime. I spent most of the next days, lookin' at the x-rays, Talkin' 'bout the options and talkin' 'bout sweet time." (Live Like You Were Dying / C. Wiseman, T. Nichols)

It's been over 20 years since Tim McGraw has released his first album ("Tim McGraw", 1993 ). And this makes him one of the few, who is still being played on the radio in 2014. And Tim McGraw, the singer and by-now actor (a.o. " The Blind Side " with Sandra Bullock , 2009) can still be found on the charts! With some 40 million units sold in the US, Tim McGraw is the something like number 8 on a list of best selling solo artists across all genres. Only very few have managed to stay successful over such a long time span, and re-invent themselves. But maybe that is the secret to his success! Not only can he display a body at 47, which should could be the envy of Superman, as well as a successful marriage with singer Faith Hill , but he also managed to keep his music full of surprises. To draft his 20-years career in the entertainment business would not fit in this one blog entry, so I am going to focus on his most recent outputs, to see what makes him so suc...