Live Like You Were Dying
Live Like You Were Dying | ||||
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Studio album by Tim McGraw | ||||
Released | August 24, 2004 | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 64:00 | |||
Label | Curb | |||
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Tim McGraw chronology | ||||
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Singles from Live Like You Were Dying | ||||
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Professional ratings | |
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Aggregate scores | |
Source | Rating |
Metacritic | (61/100) [1] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
About.com | [2] |
Allmusic | [3] |
Billboard | Positive [4] |
Cross Rhythms | [5] |
Entertainment Weekly | B [6] |
Los Angeles Times | [1] |
Mojo | [1] |
The New York Times | Mixed [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. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "How Bad Do You Want It" |
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3:44 |
2. | "My Old Friend" | 3:37 | |
3. | "Can't Tell Me Nothin'" |
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3:08 |
4. | "Old Town New" | 5:00 | |
5. | "Live Like You Were Dying" |
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4:58 |
6. | "Drugs or Jesus" | 4:39 | |
7. | "Back When" |
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4:59 |
8. | "Something's Broken" |
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3:42 |
9. | "Open Season on My Heart" | 3:39 | |
10. | "Everybody Hates Me" |
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3:28 |
11. | "Walk Like a Man" | Tom Douglas | 3:35 |
12. | "Blank Sheet of Paper" | 4:07 | |
13. | "Just Be Your Tear" |
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4:47 |
14. | "Do You Want Fries with That" |
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15. | "Kill Myself" |
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3:07 |
16. | "We Carry On" |
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4:12 |
Personnel
Tim McGraw & The Dance Hall Doctors
- Dean Brown – fiddle, mandolin
- David Dunkley – percussion
- Denny Hemingson – electric guitar, steel guitar, baritone guitar, slide guitar, Melobar, Dobro
- John Marcus – bass guitar
- Billy Mason – drums
- Tim McGraw – lead vocals
- Jeff McMahon – Wurlitzer electric piano, Fender Rhodes, Hammond B-3 organ, piano
- Bob Minner – acoustic guitar, banjo, mandolin
- Darran Smith – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Background vocals
- Robert Bailey – track 6
- Greg Barnhill – tracks 4, 5, 6, 7, 11, 16
- Kim Carnes – tracks 4, 6
- Rodney Crowell – track 9
- Kim Fleming – track 6
- Vicki Hampton – track 6
- Wes Hightower – tracks 10, 15, 16
- Faith Hill – track 12
- Steve McEwan – track 2
- Gene Miller – tracks 13, 16
- Chris Rodriguez – track 13
- Russell Terrell – tracks 1, 3, 4, 8, 14
- Brett Warren – track 12
Strings on tracks 5, 6, 11, 16
- Charlie Bisharat, Darius Campo, Susan Chatman, Mario deLeon, Berj Garabedian, Armen Garabedian, Natalie Leggett, Sara Parkins – violins
- Evan Wilson, Bob Becker - violas
- Larry Corbett, Suzie Katayama – cellos
- David Campbell – string arrangements
- Steve Churchyard – string engineer
- Suzie Katayama – string contractor
- Greg Lawrence – other string engineer
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
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Sales and certifications
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References
- 1 2 3 "Critic Reviews for Live Like You Were Dying". Metacritic. Retrieved 2013-05-03.
- ↑ Rondinella, Penny. "Tim McGraw - 'Live Like You Were Dying'". About.com. Retrieved 2013-05-03.
- ↑ Jurek, Thom (2004-08-24). "Live Like You Were Dying - Tim McGraw". Allmusic. Retrieved 2012-08-20.
- ↑ "Live Like You Were Dying". Billboard. September 4, 2004. Archived from the original on 2004-08-28. Retrieved 2013-05-03.
- ↑ Rimmer, Mike (2005-03-01). "Review: Live Like You Were Dying". Cross Rhythms. Retrieved 2013-05-03.
- ↑ Chris Willman (2004-09-03). "Live Like You Were Dying Review". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2012-02-28.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Eaton, Loren; Smithouser, Bob. "Tim McGraw: Live Like You Were Dying". Plugged In. Retrieved 2013-05-03.
- ↑ Mansfield, Brian (2004-08-23). "Tim McGraw, Live Like You Were Dying". USA Today. Retrieved 2013-05-30.
- ↑ "Tim McGraw Music News & Info". Billboard.com. Retrieved 2012-02-28.
- ↑ "Recording Industry Association of America". RIAA. Retrieved 2012-02-28.
- 1 2 3 "Tim McGraw Music News & Info". Billboard.com. Retrieved 2012-02-28.
- ↑ http://australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Tim+McGraw&titel=Live+Like+You+Were+Dying&cat=a
- ↑ "Gold & Platinum - February 12, 2010". RIAA. Retrieved 2010-02-12.
External links
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 |