Artist: Tim McGrawAlbum : Greatest Hits Vol. 2Bitrate : VBR kbps
Release Info
Label: CURB RecordsYear : 2006Genre: CountryRip date : Mar-21-2006Store date : Mar-28-2006Size : 98,1 MB
Track List
Track Listing:
01 - Live Like You Were Dying05:0002 - My Old Friend 03:3803 - Like We Never Loved Before feat. Faith04:18Hill04 - The Cowboy In Me04:0405 - When The Stars Go Blue03:5506 - Real Good Man 04:1707 - She’s My Kind Of Rain 04:1708 - Grown Men Don’t Cry 03:5709 - Not A Moment Too Soon 03:4910 - Watch The Wind Blow By04:3811 - Over And Over feat. Nelly 04:1612 - Everywhere04:5213 - Beautiful People04:5914 - Red Ragtop04:4515 - My Little Girl03:4016 - I’ve Got Friends That Do (Bonus)04:13
68:38 min
Release Notes
This is his second greatest hits cd, it has 3 new tracks and a bonustrack
When The Stars Go BlueBeautiful PeopleMy Little Girl
I’ve Got Friends That Do is the bonus track!
Enjoy!
When Tim McGraw debuted in the early ’90s, few would have predicted thathe would eventually take over Garth Brooks’ position as the most popularmale singer in country music. Yet that’s exactly what he did, thanks toa string of multi-platinum albums, a high-profile marriage to fellowsuperstar Faith Hill, and Brooks’ own inevitable decline. His soundepitomized the strain of commercial country that dominated his era:updated honky tonk and Southern-fried country-rock on the up-tempotunes, well-polished, adult contemporary-tinged pop on the ballads.Helped out early in his career by several jokey novelty items, McGrawsimply wound up cranking out hookier hits on a more consistent basisthan any of his peers. By the late ’90s, he was not only a superstaramong country fans, but a mainstream celebrity with a large femalefollowing.
Samuel Timothy McGraw was born in Delhi, LA, on May 1, 1967. Though hedidn’t know it until years later, his father was baseball player TugMcGraw, a star relief pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies and New YorkMets who’d had a brief affair with McGraw’s mother. He was raised mostlyin the small town of Start, LA, near Monroe, and grew up listening to avariety of music: country, pop, rock, and R&B. He attended NortheastLouisiana University on a baseball scholarship, studying sportsmedicine, and it was only then that he started playing guitar toaccompany his singing. He played the local club circuit and dropped outof school in 1989, heading to Nashville on the same day his hero KeithWhitley passed away. He sang in Nashville clubs for a couple of yearsand landed a deal with Curb in 1992. His debut single, the minor hit“Welcome to the Club,” was released later that year, and his self-titleddebut album appeared in 1993 but failed to even make the charts.McGraw’s fortunes changed with the lead single from his 1994 sophomoreeffort, Not a Moment Too Soon. “Indian Outlaw” was embraced as alight-hearted, old-fashioned novelty song by fans but was heavilycriticized for what some regarded as patronizing caricatures of NativeAmericans. Despite some radio stations’ refusal to air the song, itreached the country Top Ten and even crossed over to the pop Top 20. Allthe publicity helped send McGraw’s next single, the ballad “Don’t Takethe Girl,” all the way to the top of the country charts; it too made thepop Top 20. The album kept spinning off hits: “Down on the Farm” hitnumber two, the title track went to number one in 1995, and the noveltytune “Refried Dreams” also reached the Top Five. Not a Moment Too Soonwas a genuine blockbuster hit, eventually selling over five millioncopies and topping both the country and pop album charts; it was alsothe best-selling country album of the year.
McGraw’s follow-up, 1995’s All I Want, immediately consolidated hisstardom with the number one smash “I Like It, I Love It.” The albumtopped the country charts, reached the pop Top Five, and sold over twomillion copies. Once again, it functioned as a hit factory thanks to thenumber two “Can’t Be Really Gone,” the number one “She Never Lets It Goto Her Heart,” and the Top Five “All I Want Is a Life” and “Maybe WeShould Just Sleep on It.” Over 1996, McGraw supported the album with anextensive tour, accompanied by opening act Faith Hill. In October, afterthe tour was over, McGraw and Hill married, in a union of country starpower that drew plenty of attention from mainstream media. Itdoubtlessly helped McGraw’s next album, 1997’s Everywhere, becomeanother crossover smash; it topped the country charts, fell one spotshort of doing the same on the pop side, and sold four million copies.The lead single was a McGraw-Hill duet called “It’s Your Love,” whichnot only hit number one country, but made the pop Top Ten. Three moresingles from the album ?”Everywhere,” “Where the Green Grass Grows,”and “Just to See You Smile” ?hit number one, and two others ?”One ofThese Days” and “For a Little While” ?reached number two. Meanwhile,“Just to Hear You Say That You Love Me,” another husband-and-wife duetfrom Hill’s 1998 album Faith, climbed into the Top Five.
With the multi-platinum success of Everywhere, McGraw was poised to takeover Brooks’ throne as the king of contemporary country, a transitionthat only accelerated when Brooks confounded his fans with the ChrisGaines project. McGraw, meanwhile, just kept topping the charts. Hisnext album, 1999’s triple-platinum A Place in the Sun, hit number onecountry and pop, and four of its singles also hit number one: “PleaseRemember Me” (which featured Patty Loveless), “Something Like That,” “MyBest Friend,” and “My Next Thirty Years.” 2000 brought McGraw’s firstGreatest Hits compilation, predictably a best-selling smash, and anotherTop Ten duet from Hill’s Breathe album, “Let’s Make Love.” The songlater won McGraw his first Grammy, for Best Country Vocal Collaboration.Also in 2000, McGraw had a brush with the law when he and tourmate KennyChesney got involved in a scuffle with police officers, after Chesneyattempted to ride one of the officers’ horses; McGraw was later clearedof assault charges and spent the rest of 2000 on a second tour withHill.
Released in 2001, Set This Circus Down (number one country, number twopop) kept McGraw’s hit streak going into the new millennium, giving himfour more number ones ?”Grown Men Don’t Cry,” “Angry All the Time,”“The Cowboy in Me,” and “Unbroken” ?just like that. In 2002, his duetwith prot茅g茅e Jo Dee Messina, “Bring on the Rain,” also went to numberone. For the follow-up album, McGraw defied country convention byentering the studio not with session musicians, but with his road band,the Dancehall Doctors, a unit that had been together since 1996 (withsome members around even before that). Tim McGraw was released in late2002 and produced Top Ten hits in “Red Rag Top” and “She’s My Kind ofRain”; it also featured a startlingly faithful cover of Elton John’s“Tiny Dancer.” McGraw kept the formula the same on 2004’s Live Like YouWere Dying, utilizing his road band, as well as co-mixing/producing therecord himself. Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 arrived in 2006.
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