Not A Moment Too Soon (CD)

• Category:  Music  »  Country  »  Contemporary Country
• Format: CD   Learn more about the CD format using Tower WIKI.
• Release Date: March 22, 1994
• Label: Curb Records (USA)
• UPC: 715187765924
• WAPI (Tower ID): 105762796
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #60676 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #127255 in Country (See Top 100 Country Bestsellers)
• #459 in Contemporary Country (See Top 100 Contemporary Country Bestsellers)

Personnel: Tim McGraw (vocals); Mark Casstevens, Larry Byrom (acoustic guitar); Brent Rowan, Dann Huff (electric guitar); Sonny Garrish (steel guitar, dobro); Glen Duncan, Stuart Duncan (fiddle); Matt Rollings, Randy McCormick (piano); Gary Smith (Hammond B-3 organ); Mike Brignardello (bass); Lonnie Wilson (drums); Curtis Young, Curtis Wright (background vocals).

With his high lonesome yodel, and jacked-up honky tonk groove, singer Tim McGraw is the latest in a new generation of country heartthrobs to capture the imagination of today's young country fans. From the opening notes of "It Doesn't Get Any Countrier Than This"--with its skinny dipping, roll in the hay, crank my tractor sexual imagery--NOT A MOMENT TOO SOON showcases McGraw's drawlin' good time delivery on a section of party-hearty arrangements.

The key element in young McGraw's appealing country synthesis is the persistent undercurrent of chicken-fried rock'n'roll in the mix, as on the bluesy "40 Days And 40 Nights" and the pulsating "Ain't That Just Like A Dream," with its big, ringing arena gestures (descended from bands the likes of Lynyrd Skynyrd). Not that McGraw can't get next to a ballad, as he demonstrates on the steel-guitar inflected "Wouldn't Want It Any Other Way" and the nostalgic "Don't Take The Girl."

But it's the hard-charging, dancing "turbo tonk" of tunes like his big hit "Indian Outlaw"--with its shifting tom-tom groove, shuffling blues jig and fiddling square dance breaks--that best captures the rowdy spirit and rough-and-ready delivery of Tim McGraw. Daddy Tug McGraw (a pitching hero for 20-plus years with championship New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies teams) must be proud.

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