📷: David Needleman
Tim McGraw On Staying Relevant After 30 Years In The Biz
Tim McGraw is still relevant some 30 years into his career.
People are always asking how he does it, and this time he actually gave them an answer.
It’s about what you’d expect… stay fresh, but don’t compromise.
“I think for me, I’m certainly influenced by everything that I hear, always. I mean, I think that as a artist you have to keep your heart and soul open as you move along for things to sort of hit you and sorta sink in or bounce off. I think I’ve been doing this for so long that I certainly know my road that I travel – the kind of music that I make and what I’m comfortable with and the kind of atmosphere I create with my music. But I also like to hear stuff and sort of think, well this is kinda cool. Let me do my version of some of these sounds that I hear on the radio now. Or let me do my version of some of these drum beats that I hear on the radio, and still do what I like to do, and still do the kind of music and the sort of soulfulness and the groundedness and the earthiness, I guess is the best way to put it, that I like to put into music, and not go too far off the road one way or the other. Just sort of stay true to my core but sort of incorporate some stuff that I hear along the way.”
