Place in the Sun (CD - 1999)

Personnel: Tim McGraw (vocals); Larry Byrom, Biff Watson (acoustic guitar); Brent Mason, Michael Landau, B. James Lowry, John D. Willis, Mike Durham (electric guitar); Paul Franklin, Dan Dugmore (steel guitar); Aubrey Haynie, Glen Duncan (fiddle); Steve Nathan (keyboards); Glenn Worf, Mike Brignardello (bass); Lonnie Wilson (drums); Curtis Wright, Curtis Young, Chris Rodriguez, Kim Carnes, Greg Barnhill, Patty Loveless, Kim Parent (background vocals); The Nashville String Machine.

Producers: Byron Gallimore, James Stroud, Tim McGraw.

Engineers include: Julian King, Dennis Davis, Erik Lutkins.

Principally recorded at Ocean Way, Nashville, Tennessee.

"Please Remember Me" was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance.

Tim McCraw won the 2000 CMA Award for Male Vocalist Of The Year.

"My Best Friend" was nominated for the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance.

With A PLACE IN THE SUN, Tim McGraw, the son of legendary baseball player Tug McGraw, has hit a musical home run. The follow-up to his insanely successful EVERYWHERE, A PLACE IN THE SUN contains McGraw's signature mix of traditional country, humor, romance and rowdiness. McGraw has a real talent for choosing well-crafted, slightly off-kilter songs (from top Nashville talents like Walt Alridge, Phil Vassar, Hillary Kanter and Mark Nesler), and delivering them so convincingly that you can almost believe he's the one who wrote them.

The 15 tracks range from the hard country of "She'll Have You Back" (the punch line is "...back to drinking in no time") to the heartfelt romance of "My Best Friend" to the sweeping grandeur of "Please Remember Me" (featuring harmonies by Patty Loveless). Highlights include "The Trouble With Never," the boisterous "Something Like That" and "My Next Thirty Years," a fantastic song about a man saying good-bye to his youth while he prepares, with some trepidation, to face the second half of his life. Fans may be disappointed to find there's no duet with McGraw's wife, Faith Hill. However, even with the lack of that crowd-pleasing element, A PLACE IN THE SUN truly shines. minimize