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| Rollingstone |
| Roughstock |
| Six years ago, Tim McGraw’s Greatest Hits, Volume II was released and scored quite a bit of success on the charts with new tracks like “When The Stars Go Blue” and “My Little Girl” added to the hits that had happened in the six years between hits projects. To many fans the time between the two projects (and the fact that two hits which should’ve been on Volume One were in Volume Two) was just fine but they (and Tim) were a little upset when 2008 brought about a Greatest Hits 3 project, after Let It Go was released in 2007. This collection, like the one before it, filled in some gaps by including past hits not on either collection, but in reality, Tim really didn’t have enough other hits to make such a collection a viable release. So, instead, they added the #1 hit “Find Out Who Your Friends Are” (a track with Kenny Chesney and Tracy Lawrence) and the minor hits from Let It Go like “Suspicions” instead of including a #2 hit from the Everywhere album, “One of these Days.” That song still remains available for a Future Greatest Hits 4 collection as it isn’t a part of the compilation that is the focus of this review, Tim McGraw’s Number One Hits. This compliation may only be another two years removed from Greatest Hits 3 and a bit of a head-scratcher to some but in the world of repackaging a stars hits, this one actually makes sense as it can cover the complete sixteen year run of hits from 1994 ‘til now. What’s interesting about this collection is that every #1 on the billboard chart is included here and in all honesty, some of the other tunes that hit #2 may have been #1 hits on the second or third charts of the time yet Curb has chosen to stick with Billboard’s ‘industry leading standard’ chart for the two discs to make the collection a lean 24 song collection with only the new single “Felt Good On My Lips” and a remixed version of break-through hit “Indian Outlaw,” a song which didn’t hit #1, added to flesh out the collection (and to get longtime fans to buy it). The compilation starts off with what many would consider Tim's iconic and signature tune, the Craig Wiseman and Tim Nichols co-write “Live Like You Were Dying.” This fantastic song about living life to its fullest was a seven-week #1 and 2004’s most-played single. The next song on the compilation is Tim’s second #1 hit, “Don’t Take The Girl” and while not as iconic as track one, it is nonetheless a tent pole of Tim McGraw’s career (even if the production feels a bit dated). In many ways the tracks on the first disc of Number One Hits are the biggest hits of Tim McGraw’s career with the award-winning duet “It’s Your Love” with wife Faith Hill and “I Like It, I Love It” leading the way. ...full text |
| Americansongwriter |
| Starting with his second album (the first one was really just a warmup), Tim McGraw has shown a knack for being able to pick good songs, as well as songs that might not be so good but that his audience will pay to hear him sing. Or maybe some of that knack has been on the part of producers Byron Gallimore and James Stroud or the staff at Curb Records. Whatever. All that matters is that the guy has consistently ruled the charts, that he’s been able to show up with one number one single after another, and that he’s grown as an artist and a businessman in the process. McGraw’s Number One Hits features chart-topping singles from all phases of his career, from his first number one (Craig Martin and Larry W. Johnson’s “Don’t Take the Girl”) to his latest, the Bob DiPiero/Tom Douglas title track of Southern Voice. The Stephony Smith-penned “It’s Your Love,” the duet with wife Faith Hill, is also here, as well as one of the inexplicably most played singles of all time, Rick Ferrell and Steve Follese’s “Something Like That.” Not everything on this two-CD set was a number one record, actually. The dance mix of Tommy Barnes, Jumpin’ Gene Simmons and John D. Loudermilk’s “Indian Outlaw,” which didn’t reach the top of the charts but is regarded as McGraw’s breakthrough single, is included here. But it doesn’t really work all that well as a dance mix in 2010, when great dance mixes are an entire industry unto themselves. And since every package like this needs a new cut to attract buyers who already have much of an artist’s product, the mediocre new single “Felt Good on My Lips,” written by Brett and Jim Beavers and Brett and Brad Warren, is thrown in for good measure. This career retrospective also includes Rodney Crowell and Will Jennings’ “Please Remember Me,” George Teren and Rivers Rutherford’s “Real Good Man,” and Bruce Robison’s “Angry All the Time.” And of course, this collection wouldn’t be complete without Craig Wiseman and Tim Nichols’ Grammy-nominated “Live Like You Were Dying,” which was named the number one country song of 2004 by Billboard. It’s interesting to consider how McGraw might be somewhat limited as a vocalist, but has consistently recorded good, even great, material by the top writers on Music Row, and has never been afraid to take a chance on a song that probably shouldn’t have worked for him (i.e., “Angry All the Time,” also included here)....full text |
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