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Southern Voice
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Artist:
Tim McGraw
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Still | 2 |
Ghost Town Train (She's Gone) | 3 |
Good Girls | 4 |
I Didn't Know It at the Time | 5 |
It's a Business Doing Pleasure with You | 6 |
If I Died Today | 7 |
Mr. Whoever You Are | 8 |
Southern Voice | 9 |
You Had to Be There | 10 |
I'm Only Jesus | 11 |
Forever Seventeen | 12 |
Love You Goodbye |
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Performer Notes - Personnel: Tim McGraw (background vocals); B. James Lowry, Bob Minner (acoustic guitar); Denny Hemingson (electric guitar, steel guitar); Jerry McPherson, Tom Bukovac, Darran Smith, Byron Gallimore (electric guitar); Dan Dugmore (steel guitar); Dean Brown (mandolin, fiddle); Brett Warren (harmonica); Jimmy Nichols, Jeff McMahon (piano, Wurlitzer organ, synthesizer); Billy Mason, Shannon Forrest (drums); David Dunkley (congas, percussion); Greg Barnhill, Russell Terrell (background vocals).
- Audio Mixers: Tim McGraw; Byron Gallimore.
- Recording information: Capitol Studios, Hollywood, CA; NRG Recording Studios, North Hollywood, CA.
- Photographer: Danny Clinch.
- Based on title alone, it would seem that SOUTHERN VOICE picks up on the harder country edges of LET IT GO, but that's not the case: this is Tim McGraw's rockiest album yet, opening with a slow, spacy crawl called "Still" that would not be out of place on a record by a U2 knockoff and taking the occasional detour to Nickelback territory on the Chad Kroeger co-written "It's a Business Doing Pleasure with You." That tune bristles with Kroeger's barely veiled, unwitting hostility, something that the big-hearted McGraw doesn't wear well and it's something he wisely side-steps on the rest of the record, choosing to mine a sentimental, meditative vein, musing on major changes in his life and wondering what will happen after he's gone. Such big themes fit both the big, atmospheric rock sounds and the reflective acoustic ballads well, creating an inward vibe that is occasionally punctuated by a rocker, like the laundry list of great Southern names on the title track.
Professional Reviews Rolling Stone (p.78) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[H]e mostly hews to his strengths, singing sad, earnest songs and letting the effort show -- a superstar who's still a striver."
Entertainment Weekly (p.58) - "McGraw clearly knows his country touchstones, spinning vivid tales from both the Good Book and jailbird dads." -- Grade: B
Billboard (p.32) - "Standout tracks include 'Ghost Town Train,' which echoes the work of Glen Campbell, and 'Good Girls,' a dark tale of cheating with an unexpected twist."
| Producer: | Tim McGraw; Darran Smith; Byron Gallimore | | Format: | CD | | Country: | USA | | UPC: | 0715187915220 | | Studio/Live: | Studio | | Release Date: | 20 October, 2009 |
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 – Customer review on 28/10/2011
Southern Voice has a decidedly mellow tone to it throughout most of its 12 tracks, the majority of which never really move past mid-tempo. This pattern is broken up only by the two songs chosen as lead singles: Business Doing Pleasure with You and Southern Voice. These songs were undoubtedly tapped by the label to market an album that, while it doesn't quite reach the territory of "dark" (though the theme of Good Girls and parts of I'm Only Jesus certainly qualifies), contains a number of, in McGraw's words, "flawed characters" that explore a sizable amount of pretty heavy territory and give the album a pretty dominant somber tone.
That being said, the album is strongest when immersed this heavy subject matter and those songs seem to have an underlying power combined with an atmosphere of reverence and immediacy, due part to excellent production, but mainly because McGraw is the master of conveying emotion and these songs involve very emotional subject matter. On first listen, I felt the album was really good, but after a dozen listens, I'm of the opinion that Tim has crafted a masterpiece of a record.
With Southern Voice, Tim McGraw as given us an album that is a mature masterpiece; these are songs by a mature artist in his prime who has no peer when it comes to conveying emotion and feeling through his music. Never have I listened to a collection of songs, album or otherwise, that have hit a nerve and given me the chills like the songs on Southern Voice have. These are songs about mature people, for mature people; a collection of statements by a husband, father and son about life and what it's really like to live and grow for forty years.
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