Tim McGraw - Let It Go
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Artist: Tim McGrawBrand: Baker & Taylor
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Extra tracks
CD Release Date: 2007-03-27
Music Label: Curb
Soundtracks:
- Last Dollar (Fly Away)
- I'm Workin'
- Let It Go
- Whiskey and You
- Suspicions
- Kristofferson
- Put Your Lovin' On Me
- Nothin' To Die For
- Between The River And Me
- Train #10
- I Need You
- Comin' Home
- Shotgun Rider
- If You're Reading This
Free Music Notes for Let It Go
Free Music Review: Let It Go Worth the Wait: McGraw's New Album is Best Album of the Contemporary Country Era
Hit: 5 Stars
FOLLOW UP: A big thanks to the folks at Tim's website that were kind enough to post this review on his home page on March 29....what a surprise and what a great honor. THANKS and see you in Sacramento August 6th!!!
If you had to find two words to describe Tim McGraw's career, consistent and evolutionary would probably be the most accurate and this has never been truer than on this new carefully crafted masterpiece, Let It Go. As crazy as I was last year after hearing that Greatest Hits II was coming out vs. a new album, the wait was more than worth it when confronted by Let It Go, which may well be the best album of the contemporary country era.
While it's difficult to point to any one McGraw album as "the best" (each seems to have its own way it excels), Let It Go immediately rockets to the top of the list because it manages to do so many things well; it blends the evocativeness of Live Like You Were Dying with the rockiness of Set This Circus Down and the romanticism of A Place in the Sun. Sonically, Let It Go is far and away McGraw's best album with soaring, multilayered instrumentation and thoughtful songs and lyrics that communicate the emotion of LLYWD, but with more of a groove (after a few hundred listens, LLYWD almost seems macabre, a trait that will not be shared by Let It Go).While many pointed to LLYWD as Tim's peak, Let It Go quickly dispels that belief because it continues to show not an artist at rest, but rather one who is still growing and getting better. In the end, while Everywhere was McGraw's best overall album, Let It Go raises the bar higher, sounding like what it is: Everywhere with 3 kids and 10 years of maturity under its belt.
The entire album sounds like nothing else on country radio today; with incredibly creative arrangements that adds incredible depth to every track and much tighter "studio chemistry" among the Dancehall Doctors, Let It Go grabs the listener from the first track and holds you to the final one.
It's hard to pick standout songs here (there are so many) but here goes:
I'm Workin': a very emotional song. I am an aspiring law enforcement officer so the subject of this one really hits home. From a broader perspective the song is about our busy lives in general and how, no matter how bad it seems, we should be thankful for what we do have. When Tim sings "I know I couldn't do it if you weren't there....there would be no home to come home to, no reason to care" I just crumple.
Let It Go: vies for best song on the album honors. The song rocks and the guitar work by Darran Smith at the end is creative and a nice thing to hear in a genre that relies so much on "cookie cutter" arrangements. The songs' message of redemption and moving forward feels good to sing because of its take that/fist pumping tone. Just a sharply written song with lines like "trying to buy back the pieces of my soul...that's hard to do when the devil won't get off your back...its like carrying around the past in a hundred pound sack" (Should be a single).
Put Your Lovin' On Me: Awesome song; sonically incredible throughout with piercing lyrics. It's a "you're a gorgeous woman and I'm a strong-but-vulnerable man" kind of song that is simple, but works because it conveys so much with so little.....very sexy.
Nothin' to Die For: This song is specifically about a man caught up in alcoholism. More broadly: ever felt like, for all the great things in your life, you just can't take much more? That's this song. The word that comes to mind with this song is "powerful". There is a surprise at the end I won't spoil, but suffice to say when Tim sings "and the in-box, out-box, box you in and the money you make ain't worth the time you spend to make your pay...doctor says the numbers don't lie...yeah the graveyard is full of those who didn't have the time to die" the message hits home that sometimes those "big deals" in life, maybe aren't such a big deal after all.
I Need You: most are familiar with this one from the tour and Tim's NBC special, but the studio version takes the song to a whole new level. Those who are sick of Tim/Faith duets (I probably fit into that category), please don't kill me, but this should be a single as it has "monster hit" written all over it and is too well written to not let the whole world hear it. Different from their prior efforts in all the good ways....primarily because for some reason you don't immediately think of their relationship when you hear it...you think of yours.
Train #10: What a cool song!!! We have all been standing at a crossroad in our lives where we want to do something but can't seem to do it? That is this song. Get past the first chorus and the odd title finally makes sense too. Well crafted lyrics and rocking music make it a joy to listen to and the line about a procrastinator making up his mind to procrastinate more makes me smile every time. Tim co-wrote this one and he should be very proud (Another potential single).
Whiskey and You: whenever a song title like this makes you think Tim is going to regress to some stereotypical country fare, he surprises with something a little deeper and better executed than normal. No exception here...the song is hard to explain, but it's got nice hooks-well done and immediately likeable.
Suspicions: This one is a curve ball. I never thought I would hear and Eddie Rabbit song on a McGraw album, but here it is. Tim has been doing one of these funk/blues songs the last few records and I usually don't like them very much, but this one is different somehow. This song is fun for me because my wife is a hottie like in the song and while I would never have a suspicion about her, the line "when I go out to a party with you, you always turn every head in the room. I just know what's on every man's mind" makes me smile because it reminds me of her. Another very sexy song.
Comin' Home: The first time I heard this songs' opening the name "John Denver" jumped into my head. This is unlike anything Tim has recorded before. And I love it. A really sweet song that just feels good; you feel like you're coming home as you listen to it. The whole song is basically a big metaphor and, while songs like this usually come off cheesy, this one does not. I love the line in the chorus that goes "Then I looked at you and knew I never knew nothin' and it broke this heart of stone. It's a lot like comin' home".
Last Dollar: well, everyone has heard this one so it speaks for itself.
The album is rounded out with the really nice Warren Brothers-penned "River and Me", which is a story song that is nice change of pace for Tim, the catchy Kristofferson, and a nice hardcore country tune "Shotgun Rider" where Faith sings harmony.
When I wrote my review a year ago for Reflected: Greatest Hits Vol. 2 I wrote the following conclusion:
"Reflected Shows Where McGraw Has Been and What is Yet to Come: though fans and critics alike are hesitant to anoint people as legends until they are dead or at least 50 plus, McGraw is quickly reaching that level. Many pointed to his last album as the CD of his career but I beg to differ. With the new music here alongside what came before, it becomes instantly clear that McGraw, who has his 40's still ahead of him, is an artist who, should he choose, can go the way of George Strait and continue to be a valid if not dominating force in his genre well past most artists "prime"."
I don't know what else to say: Let It Go is what an album filled with what I heard in the 4 new tracks on Reflected sounds like....and so much more. It is a joy and privilege to listen to and purchase the music of such an accomplished artist.
With Let It Go, Tim has shown us what he is truly capable of and it's truly amazing. This album is easily the single best country music album in the last 20 years. The country music industry would do well to take notice of this album, its about as good as it gets.
Let It Go Poster
It's been nearly three years since Tim McGraw has released a studio album. Last March, he released Greatest Hits 2: Reflected, which became his ninth consecutive album to debut at No. 1 on the charts. On March 27th, he'll release his 11th album, Let It Go, which features the single "Last Dollar (Fly Away)." "I am really excited about this new studio album," says McGraw. "It was great to work with Byron Gallimore, Darran Smith and my band in the studio again and to build upon our work together."More of a happy-go-lucky artist in his younger days, Tim McGraw here sounds as if he carries the weight of the world on his shoulders. After the comparatively lighthearted, irresistibly catchy opening single, "Last Dollar (Fly Away)," most of the midtempo material that follows ranges from the somber to the morose. There's the night-shift weariness of "I'm Workin'," the alcohol-drenched heartbreak of "Whiskey and You," and the soul-tortured title track. Even a song with the upbeat title "Put Your Lovin' on Me" has McGraw asking his lover to "be my drug" and "take this weight off me." Things turn positively lethal with "Between the River and Me," the story of revenge on an alcoholic, wife-beating stepfather. The set also features the obligatory duet of marital devotion with Faith Hill ("I Need You") and a couple of nods toward classic country ("Kristofferson" and the closing "Shotgun Rider," which could be McGraw's "Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys"). "Nothin' to Die For" returns to the inspirational vein of "Live Like You Were Dying," but little here finds McGraw in a feel-good mode. --Don McLeese
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