If you’ve picked up Tim McGraw’s new album, Sundown Heaven Town, featuring his latest single, “Shotgun Rider,” you may have noticed an old picture of a young woman in the CD booklet. Tim reveals, “It’s a picture of my mom in there. Mom saw it and she goes, ‘And you did this why?’ I don’t know, ‘cause I just thought it was a cool picture of you.”
Tim explains there’s actually a lot more sentiment behind his decision to include the picture. When Tim’s mom was in high school she always dreamed of being a dancer. She even tried out to be a dancer on a show called Where the Action Is. She was dating Tug McGraw at the time and Tim says, “Two days after she found out she was pregnant with me, it was her senior year in high school, she found out she was pregnant with me and she got a call back to audition for Where the Action Is and she couldn’t do it.” Not only could she not do the show, but Tim says, “She had to drop out of school, they sent her to Louisiana out in the country so nobody could see her bein’ pregnant. You know, the whole routine back then. So to me, that was sort of the moment in time that my mom’s life changed. And to be on my album project and have a picture of her sort of was full circle in a lotta ways. Maybe I helped her fulfill at least vicariously some of her dreams.”
You can see Tim’s mom in the CD booklet for his new album, Sundown Heaven Town, which is available now.
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Tim McGraw – mom in album art 1:10
“It’s a picture of my mom in there. Mom saw it and she goes, ‘And you did this why?’ I don’t know, ‘cause I just thought it was a cool picture of you. For me it represents a lot of stuff ‘cause my mom, she worked at a radio station in Jacksonville, Florida, when she was in high school and she wanted to be a dancer and her favorite show was, ‘Where the Action Is’. When she was doing that back there she had a dance troop that she was workin’ with and she had sent off an application to audition for ‘Where the Action Is’ and two days after she found out she was pregnant. When she had met Tug he was playin’ baseball for the Jacksonville Suns, minor league Mets team and they had dated all summer and she ended up gettin’ pregnant. So two days after she found out she was pregnant with me, it was her senior year in high school, she found out she was pregnant with me and she got a call back to audition for ‘Where the Action Is’ and she couldn’t do it because she found out she was pregnant with me. And then she had to drop out of school, they sent her to Louisiana out in the country so nobody could see her bein’ pregnant. You know, the whole routine back then. So to me, that was sort of the moment in time that my mom’s life changed. And to be on my album project and have a picture of her sort of was full circle in a lotta ways. Maybe I helped her fulfill at least vicariously some of her dreams.”
WHAT HE’S DOING THIS WEEK – SEPTEMBER 29, 2014 – MONDAY
Since his Sundown Heaven Town album was released on September 16, Tim McGraw had a huge release week and then some much needed time off with his family enabling Tim to attend the high school football games he loves so much on Friday nights near Nashville where his daughters go to school and his daughter Maggie is a cheerleader.
2014 CMA NOMINATIONS
SINGLE OF THE YEAR – “Meanwhile Back At Mama’s” – Tim McGraw featuring Faith Hill
MUSICAL EVENT OF THE YEAR – “Meanwhile Back At Mama’s” Tim McGraw featuring Faith Hill
The 48th Annual CMA Awards will be handed out in Nashville live on ABC on November 5.
TIM MCGRAW – JUST THE FACTS
BIRTH DATE: May 1, 1967 (He’s 47)
HOMETOWN: Start, Louisiana
WIFE: Faith Hill – Married on October 6, 1996
CHILDREN: Gracie, Maggie and Audrey (all three teenagers)
DEBUT ALBUM: 1993’s Tim McGraw
CURRENT ALBUM: Upcoming this week – Sundown Heaven Town – TO BE RELEASED: September 16, 2014
CURRENT SINGLE: “Shotgun Rider” was recently released.
LATEST MUSIC VIDEO – 2014 – “Meanwhile Back At Mamas”
RECENT TWEETS:
Tim McGraw @TheTimMcGraw · Saturday, September 27
Have you picked up a copy of Tim’s new album #SundownHeavenTown? Which song are you listening to on repeat? http://smarturl.it/heaventown
Tim McGraw retweeted
Pennzoil @Pennzoil · Saturday, September 27
.@TheTimMcGraw has the need. The need for speed. http://bit.ly/1qlq7zz
Tim McGraw @TheTimMcGraw · September 26
nothin like “friday night lights” #sundownheaventow
TIM MCGRAW – AWARD WINS
1994 – Country Music Television – Male Video Artist of the Year
1994 – American Music Awards – Album of the Year – Not a Moment Too Soon
1994 – American Music Awards – Top New Male Vocalist
1994 – Billboard Awards – Top New Country Artist
1994 – Billboard Magazine – Top New Country Album – Not a Moment Too Soon
1995 – American Music Awards – Favorite Country New Artist
1997 – Billboard Magazine – Single of the Year – “It’s Your Love” (with Faith Hill)
1997 – Country Music Television – Video of the Year – “It’s Your Love” (with Faith Hill)
1997 – Country Music Television – Male Artist of the Year
1997 – Playgirl Magazine – Top Ten, Sexiest Men of the Year
1997 – CMA – Vocal Event – “It’s Your Love” (with Faith Hill)
1998 – Billboard Awards – Country Single of the Year – “Just to See You Smile”
1998 – CMA – Album of the Year – Everywhere
1998 – Academy of Country Music – Single of the Year – “It’s Your Love” (with Faith Hill)
1998 – Academy of Country Music – Song of the Year – “It’s Your Love” (with Faith Hill)
1998 – Academy of Country Music – Video of the Year – “It’s Your Love” (with Faith Hill)
1998 – Academy of Country Music – Top Vocal Event – “It’s Your Love” (with Faith Hill)
1999 – Academy of Country Music – Male Vocalist
1999 – Academy of Country Music -Vocal Collaboration – “Just to Hear You Say That You Love Me” (with Faith Hill)
1999 – CMA – Male Vocalist
1999 – CMA – Album of the Year – A Place in the Sun
2000 – CMA – Male Vocalist
2000 – National Fatherhood Initiative – Father of the Year
2000 – Academy of Country Music – Male Vocalist
2000 – Billboard Awards – Male Artist of the Year
2001 – American Music Awards – Favorite Male Country Artist
2001 – Grammy Awards – Vocal Collaboration – “Let’s Make Love” (with Faith Hill)
2001 – CMA – Entertainer of the Year
2001 – Billboard Awards – Country Artist
2001 – Billboard Awards – Male Country Artist
2001 – Billboard Awards – Country Albums Artist
2001 – Billboard Awards – Country Single Artist
2001 – Billboard Awards – Country Album – Greatest Hits
2002 – American Music Awards – Best Country Album – Set This Circus Down
2002 – American Music Awards – Favorite Male Country Artist
2003 – American Music Awards – Favorite Country Male Artist
2003 – Radio Music Awards – Country Male Artist
2003 – American Music Awards – Favorite Country Male Artist
2004 – People’s Choice Awards – Favorite Country Male Artist
2004 – Radio Music Awards – Country Male Artist
2004 – CMA – Single of the Year – “Live Like You Were Dying”
2005 – American Music Awards – Album of the Year -Live Like You Were Dying
2005 – American Music Awards – Best Male Country Artist
2005 – Academy of Country Music – Song of the Year -“Live Like You Were Dying”
2005 – Academy of Country Music – Single of the Year -“Live Like You Were Dying”
2005 – People’s Choice Awards – Favorite Country Male Artist
2005 – Grammy Award – Best Male Country Vocal Performance – “Live Like You Were Dying”
2005 – Country Music Television – Most Inspiring Video – “Live Like You Were Dying”
2006 – People’s Choice Awards – Top Male Performer
2006 – Grammy Award Country – Vocal Collaboration – “Like We Never Loved At All” (with Faith Hill)
2012 – CMA – Musical Event of the Year – “Feel Like a Rock Star” (with Kenny Chesney)
2013 – CMA – Music Video of the Year – “Highway Don’t Care” Tim McGraw with Taylor Swift & Keith Urban
2013 – CMA – Musical Event of the Year – “Highway Don’t Care” Tim McGraw with Taylor Swift & Keith Urban
2014 – People’s Choice Awards – Country Music Icon