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Tim McGraw has been married to fellow musician Faith Hill for almost 25 years (they will celebrate their Silver wedding anniversary in October), so she is definitely someone whose opinion means a lot to him when it comes to his music and the songs he chooses to record. “Faith is certainly my best set of ears that I have,” says Tim. “I mean, I’m gonna play songs for her all the time, but we don’t always agree. Even when she’s doing a project or I’m doing a project we don’t always agree on songs.”
Tim has always had a knack for picking great songs to record throughout his career, like the ones on his Here On Earth album, which is celebrating it’s one year anniversary this week. But he says there really is no magic formula for picking the songs. “Ultimately for me, I have to sort of have a vision or a sound in my head of [how] I want the song to sound like and the way I’m gonna sing it, and how I’m gonna interpret it.”
Kind of like remodeling a house. You may know exactly how you want it to look in the end, but it’s a matter of conveying that vision to the people who are working on the house with you. It’s the same thing for Tim with songs. “Sometimes it’s hard for anybody else, even sometimes my producers, to sort of feel or understand how I interpret the song or what it’s gonna be like when it comes time to record the song for me,” says Tim.
In those moments when he really believes in a song but other people can’t necessarily imagine the end result, Tim says, “It really has to come down to the bottom line of how I feel about the song. Ultimately, I just have to love it.”
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“Faith is certainly my best set of ears that I have. I mean, I’m gonna play songs for her all the time, but we don’t always agree. Even when she’s doing a project or when I’m doing a project we don’t always agree on songs. But I think ultimately for me, I have to sort of have a vision or a sound in my head of what I want the song to sound like and the way I’m gonna sing it, and how I’m gonna interpret it. And sometimes it’s hard for anybody else, even sometimes my producers, to sort of feel or understand how I interpret the song or what it’s gonna be like when it comes time to record the song for me. So, it really has to come down to the bottom line of how I feel about the song. Ultimately, I just have to love it.”