current single: “PAPER UMBRELLAS” featuring Parker McCollum

Tim McGraw is known for picking some incredible songs to record, like “Don’t Take the Girl,” “Live Like You Were Dying,” and “Humble and Kind.” And even if he hasn’t lived the exact storyline in a song, Tim sings it in a way that makes you believe he’s lived the song. Tim explains how he’s able to channel the emotions to deliver such convincing performances.

Tim McGraw – sing how you feel  :41

“Everybody finds emotions in different ways.  I mean, there are a lot of great artists who had great lives growin’ up and they can make you feel anything you wanna feel.  They’re fantastic,.  For me, it all comes from, I guess, a piece of my soul. Every time I sing a song I feel like I’m tearing out a piece of my soul, and I want it to feel that way.  I don’t try to over-sing anything because I’m just not that kind of singer. I just try to tell you how I feel.  And I’ll tell you the most important thing I’ve learned through loving music and listening to the radio a lot is, you can tell somebody how you feel, but when you can tell somebody how they feel, and they didn’t know they felt that way until they heard it in a song or they felt it, I think that’s when there’s something really special.  And I’ve been fortunate enough that I’ve had some really great songs in my career that have allowed me to find that emotional well.”