McGraw landed a major role in the film Country Strong , which was released in He followed it with the single "Felt Good on My Lips," which reached the top spot on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart, and was followed by "Better Than I Used to Be"; both were pre-release singles for Emotional Traffic , which was finally issued in January , two years after it was completed and delivered to Curb.
McGraw wasted no time following up on that success, issuing the pre-release single "Lookin' for That Girl" in advance of his album Sundown Heaven Town. The album debuted at number one on the U. Early the next year, second single "Humble and Kind," an inspirational song written by Lori McKenna , topped Billboard's country chart.
The track peaked at number six on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Here on Earth debuted at number one on Billboard's Country charts and number 14 on its Hot chart. Three months after its release, the compilation McGraw Machine Hits: appeared. AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully.
Blues Classical Country. Electronic Folk International. Jazz Latin New Age. Aggressive Bittersweet Druggy. Energetic Happy Hypnotic. Romantic Sad Sentimental. Sexy Trippy All Moods. But while he enjoys being in front of the camera, his music career will always take first place. In addition to a widely successful professional career, McGraw's personal life has flourished as well. He's been married to fellow country singer Faith Hill since , and the two have three daughters: Gracie, Maggie and Audrey.
The four women are the ones that urged their husband and father to get sober after years of alcohol and drug use. I partied too much. And did other things too much. Not monetarily, not career wise, but family wise … It got to the point where my kids were getting older, and it was way past the point that they noticed it.
Though he played Little League as a boy, McGraw had given up his dreams of becoming a pro ball player like his dad by the time he went to college. McGraw graduated as salutatorian in Shortly after that he changed his surname to match that of his biological father, though he continues to consider his stepfather, Smith, as his true dad. But he ended up enjoying parties more than classes, and became more interested in music. He bought a guitar at a pawn shop, and within a year, he was singing in clubs around Monroe, Louisiana.
Soon, he decided to quit school and try his luck in Nashville. His father told him to finish school first, but McGraw reminded him that he had quit college for baseball. So even though it was kind of scary, I wasn't giving up much. I thought I could make it. But the industry was ripe for smooth, handsome male vocalists, and he managed to line up gigs in Printers Alley clubs. Within a year and a half, he cinched a contract with Curb Records.
His first self-titled album came out in April of , but sank into oblivion. To drum up attention, the label sent McGraw on the road with his band, the Dance Hall Doctors, and his live act went over big. With power ballads and party hits like Steve Miller's "The Joker," he found his audience. In February , McGraw released the single "Indian Outlaw," and it quickly raced up the country charts and became a radio hit. However, it also earned him unwanted status as a novelty act, and attracted a bitter backlash from many who found it offensive to Native Americans.
McGraw responded by stating that he had meant no harm, and that he had simply used the tribal names and other words for their rhyming qualities. The outcry also came as a surprise to the singer, since he had been closing his stage show with the tune for four years.
Despite McGraw's explanation of his intentions, Cherokee Nation leader Wilma Mankiller sent a letter to stations claiming the song exhibited "crass exploitative commercialism at the expense of Indians," stating that it "promotes bigotry," according to a Billboard article by Peter Cronin. As a result, some radio stations in Arizona, Nevada, Oklahoma, and Minnesota started refusing to play it.
Shortly after this brouhaha, McGraw's second album was released. Not a Moment Too Soon became the number one country hit in its first week on the charts. Also, three more singles off the effort topped the charts in addition to "Indian Outlaw. McGraw was also named best new country artist by Billboard and others. Not a Moment Too Soon hugged the top spot on the country album chart for 26 consecutive weeks and sold about eight million copies over the next few years. Immediately, McGraw was catapulted from playing honky-tonks to embarking on a major headlining tour.
Though it was an attempt to show more serious musicianship, the first single released was the jaunty "I Like It, I Love It. It doesn't really say a lot.
We put it out because it's a fun sing-along song, and it will call attention to some of the meat songs on the album that I really want people to hear.
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