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Tim McGraw: Why He Loves Full-Length Albums

While Blake Shelton said recently that he may not make another album just songs, Tim McGraw feels differently. Tim told Taste Of Country, “I get that, and I understand that…

Tim McGraw Says He Loves Albums For The Story

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While Blake Shelton said recently that he may not make another album just songs, Tim McGraw feels differently.

Tim told Taste Of Country, “I get that, and I understand that as well ‚ and boy I love Blake’s music — but for me an album tells a story. I’ve always tried to do that with all my records. The way the I developed musically and the way I learned to listen to music is through albums.”

Now working on his 15th album, "This project is really a tapestry of life, I can’t wait for everybody to hear it. Music is what drives everything that we do. Sometimes in this mad process that we get in now and this sort of short attention span that we have where people only listen to two minutes of songs and stuff like that, I think we lose what it’s all about. And it’s all about the music. It’s all about how it moves you and makes you feel.”

Tim says to expect songs about the beginning of love, youth, passing through life and reflectiveness in his new music coming out in 2020.

"Thought About You" is his current single from the upcoming project.

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.