Live Like You Were Dying

Live Like You Were Dying
Studio album by Tim McGraw
Released August 24, 2004 (2004-08-24)
Genre Country
Length 64:00
Label Curb
Producer
Tim McGraw chronology
Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors
(2002)
Live Like You Were Dying
(2004)
Reflected: Greatest Hits Vol. 2
(2006)
Singles from Live Like You Were Dying
  1. "Live Like You Were Dying"
    Released: June 7, 2004
  2. "Back When"
    Released: August 30, 2004
  3. "Drugs or Jesus"
    Released: January 17, 2005
  4. "Do You Want Fries with That"
    Released: May 23, 2005
  5. "My Old Friend"
    Released: September 20, 2005
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic(61/100) [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
About.com [2]
Allmusic [3]
BillboardPositive [4]
Cross Rhythms [5]
Entertainment WeeklyB [6]
Los Angeles Times [1]
Mojo [1]
The New York TimesMixed [7]
Plugged In(average) [8]
USA Today [9]

Live Like You Were Dying is the eighth studio album by American country music artist Tim McGraw. It was released on August 24, 2004, by Curb Records and was recorded in a mountaintop studio in upstate New York. It entered the Billboard 200 chart at number one, with sales of 766,000 copies in its first week.[10] The album was certified 4 x Platinum by the RIAA for shipping four million copies,[11] and was nominated for two Grammies in 2005 for Best Country Vocal Performance Male and Best Country Album, winning for Best Country Vocal Performance. Five singles were released from the album, all were top 15 hits on the Hot Country Songs chart, two of which hit #1.

Content

The title track was the first single from the album. The song peaked at number 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, held it for seven weeks, and peaked at number 29 on the Billboard Hot 100.[12] The song won a Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance. The music video for the title track prominently featured McGraw's father, former baseball player Tug McGraw, who had died of brain cancer. This song was also the number one country song of 2004 according to Billboard Year-End.

The next single from this album is "Back When", which also reached #1 on Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. The third single, "Drugs or Jesus" peaked at #14, making it the first McGraw single since 1993 not to reach the country Top 10 (not counting "Tiny Dancer"). "Do You Want Fries with That" was the fourth single and peaked at #5, and the fifth and final single, "My Old Friend", peaked at #6.

"How Bad Do You Want It" was featured as the theme song to CMT's Trick My Truck. "Can't Tell Me Nothin'" was previously recorded by Travis Tritt on his 2002 album Strong Enough.

Track listing

No. TitleWriter(s) Length
1. "How Bad Do You Want It"  
3:44
2. "My Old Friend"   3:37
3. "Can't Tell Me Nothin'"  
  • Steve Bogard
  • Rick Giles
3:08
4. "Old Town New"   5:00
5. "Live Like You Were Dying"   4:58
6. "Drugs or Jesus"   4:39
7. "Back When"  
4:59
8. "Something's Broken"  
3:42
9. "Open Season on My Heart"   3:39
10. "Everybody Hates Me"  
3:28
11. "Walk Like a Man"  Tom Douglas 3:35
12. "Blank Sheet of Paper"   4:07
13. "Just Be Your Tear"   4:47
14. "Do You Want Fries with That"  
  • Beathard
  • Kerry Kurt Phillips
 
15. "Kill Myself"   3:07
16. "We Carry On"  
  • Slater
  • Douglas
4:12

Personnel

Tim McGraw & The Dance Hall Doctors

Background vocals

Strings on tracks 5, 6, 11, 16

Chart positions

Live Like You Were Dying debuted on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart at # 1, his third #1 album, and on the Top Country Albums number-one album, his seventh album at #1.

Charts

Charts (2004) Peak
position
Australian Albums Chart[13] 36
Canadian Albums Chart 2
U.S. Billboard 200[12] 1
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums[12] 1

Sales and certifications

Region Provider Certification Sales/shipments
United States RIAA 4× Platinum[14] 4,000,000+

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Critic Reviews for Live Like You Were Dying". Metacritic. Retrieved 2013-05-03.
  2. Rondinella, Penny. "Tim McGraw - 'Live Like You Were Dying'". About.com. Retrieved 2013-05-03.
  3. Jurek, Thom (2004-08-24). "Live Like You Were Dying - Tim McGraw". Allmusic. Retrieved 2012-08-20.
  4. "Live Like You Were Dying". Billboard. September 4, 2004. Archived from the original on 2004-08-28. Retrieved 2013-05-03.
  5. Rimmer, Mike (2005-03-01). "Review: Live Like You Were Dying". Cross Rhythms. Retrieved 2013-05-03.
  6. Chris Willman (2004-09-03). "Live Like You Were Dying Review". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2012-02-28.
  7. Sanneh, Kelefa (2004-09-20). "CRITIC'S CHOICE/New CD's - Mamas, Trains, Prisons and a Wink". The New York Times. Retrieved 2012-02-28.
  8. Eaton, Loren; Smithouser, Bob. "Tim McGraw: Live Like You Were Dying". Plugged In. Retrieved 2013-05-03.
  9. Mansfield, Brian (2004-08-23). "Tim McGraw, Live Like You Were Dying". USA Today. Retrieved 2013-05-30.
  10. "Tim McGraw Music News & Info". Billboard.com. Retrieved 2012-02-28.
  11. "Recording Industry Association of America". RIAA. Retrieved 2012-02-28.
  12. 1 2 3 "Tim McGraw Music News & Info". Billboard.com. Retrieved 2012-02-28.
  13. http://australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Tim+McGraw&titel=Live+Like+You+Were+Dying&cat=a
  14. "Gold & Platinum - February 12, 2010". RIAA. Retrieved 2010-02-12.
Preceded by
Now 16 by Various artists
Billboard 200 number-one album
September 5—September 18, 2004
Succeeded by
What I Do by Alan Jackson
Preceded by
Horse of a Different Color by Big & Rich
Top Country Albums number-one album
September 11–24, 2004
Succeeded by
What I Do by Alan Jackson
Preceded by
What I Do by Alan Jackson
Top Country Albums number-one album
October 2–8, 2004
Succeeded by
Be Here by Keith Urban
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