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Track Listing 1. 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
Album 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. |
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