Artist: Tim McGraw Release Date: May 1999
Format: CD Record Label: Curb Records (USA)
Genre: Country UPC: 715187794221
Sub-Genre: Contemporary Country Duration: Album


Track listing
1. Trouble with Never, The
2. Seventeen
3. She'll Have You Back
4. Somebody Must Be Prayin' for Me
5. My Best Friend
6. Señorita Margarita
7. Some Things Never Change
8. You Don't Love Me Anymore
9. Something Like That
10. Please Remember Me
11. Carry On
12. My Next Thirty Years
13. Eyes of a Woman
14. Place in the Sun, A


Details
Playing time: 54 min.
Contributing artists: Aubrey Haynie, Chris Rodriguez, Glenn Worf, Kim Carnes, Patty Loveless
Distributor: WEA (Distributor)
Recording type: Studio
Recording mode: Stereo
SPAR Code: n/a


Album notes
Personnel: Tim McGraw (vocals); Larry Byrom, Biff Watson (acoustic guitar); Brent Mason, Michael Landau, B. James Lowry, John D. Willis, Mike Durham (electric guitar); Paul Franklin, Dan Dugmore (steel guitar); Aubrey Haynie, Glen Duncan (fiddle); Steve Nathan (keyboards); Glenn Worf, Mike Brignardello (bass); Lonnie Wilson (drums); Curtis Wright, Curtis Young, Chris Rodriguez, Kim Carnes, Greg Barnhill, Patty Loveless, Kim Parent (background vocals); The Nashville String Machine.
Producers: Byron Gallimore, James Stroud, Tim McGraw.
Engineers include: Julian King, Dennis Davis, Erik Lutkins.
Principally recorded at Ocean Way, Nashville, Tennessee.
"Please Remember Me" was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance.
Tim McCraw won the 2000 CMA Award for Male Vocalist Of The Year.
"My Best Friend" was nominated for the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance.
With A PLACE IN THE SUN, Tim McGraw, the son of legendary baseball player Tug McGraw, has hit a musical home run. The follow-up to his insanely successful EVERYWHERE, A PLACE IN THE SUN contains McGraw's signature mix of traditional country, humor, romance and rowdiness. McGraw has a real talent for choosing well-crafted, slightly off-kilter songs (from top Nashville talents like Walt Alridge, Phil Vassar, Hillary Kanter and Mark Nesler), and delivering them so convincingly that you can almost believe he's the one who wrote them.
The 15 tracks range from the hard country of "She'll Have You Back" (the punch line is "...back to drinking in no time") to the heartfelt romance of "My Best Friend" to the sweeping grandeur of "Please Remember Me" (featuring harmonies by Patty Loveless). Highlights include "The Trouble With Never," the boisterous "Something Like That" and "My Next Thirty Years," a fantastic song about a man saying good-bye to his youth while he prepares, with some trepidation, to face the second half of his life. Fans may be disappointed to find there's no duet with McGraw's wife, Faith Hill. However, even with the lack of that crowd-pleasing element, A PLACE IN THE SUN truly shines.


Editorial reviews
...country's favorite underdog runs through a mishmash of touchy-feely emotions, teenage hormonal rushes, and bleeding-heart pledges, all the appeal to his legion of female fans... - Rating: B
Entertainment Weekly (05/07/1999)

3 stars (out of 5) - ...the results are as beautifully considered as the ballads 'Please Remember Me' and 'Some Things Never Change', only a cad would moan about the messenger.
Q (09/01/1999)

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