Hump Day Hunk: Tim McGraw & His Biceps

Country superstar Tim McGraw shared this via Twitter today from his "Sundown Heaven Town" Tour. Click the pic for even bigger biceps.

I may need a minute here... #Dang

Tim McGraw posts "end of tour" shirtless workout pic

Tim McGraw posted on his Facebook page an "end of tour" shirtless workout pic with his band and crew.

Lots of hard work goes into staying healthy and fit. And touring doesn't make it any easier.

Cool to see that Tim continued to make this a priority throughout his 2 Lanes of Freedom Tour.

Top 5 Posts for the week ending May 31, 2013

Thanks for visiting The Randy Report kids.

Here's a round-up of what you found most interesting this week:

Olivia Newton-John makes a public statement on the passing of her sister, Rona Newton-John

The Chippendales in IN TOUCH Magazine recreating the 'Magic Mike' Poster

Sneak preview from out singer/songwriter Matt Zarley's new video shoot

Tim McGraw shirtless in People Magazine

My goodbye to my beautiful Rona Newton-John

In concert: Tim McGraw kisses the bald head of cancer survivor

Tim McGraw sings "Live Like You Were Dying" at a recent concert, then kisses the bald head of a woman who has been fighting cancer for 7 months.

(via 99.5 The Wolf)

Tim McGraw on "Larry King Now"

Tim McGraw's in-depth interview with Larry King from the stage of The Venetian in Las Vegas.

Music Video: "Highway Don't Care" by Tim McGraw with Keith Urban & Taylor Swift

Tim McGraw debuted his new music video "Highway Don't Care" yesterday.

The video is like a mini-movie spreading the message about the dangers of texting and driving. It’s a powerful video with a powerful message.

Tim McGraw to perform at 48th Academy of Country Music Awards

Tim McGraw in concert

Via press release: The Academy of Country Music and Dick Clark productions announced today that Tim McGraw, Jason Aldean, Kenny Chesney, Eric Church, Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood, Lady Antebellum and Little Big Town are scheduled to perform as part of the 48th ANNUAL ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS.

The ceremony, which will be co-hosted by Luke Bryan and Blake Shelton, honors country music’s top talent, as well as the industry’s hottest emerging artists. The event will be broadcast LIVE from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas Sunday, April 7, 2013 at 8:00 PM live ET/delayed PT on CBS.

Below, check out Tim's recent BBC2 interview and acoustic performance:

Best Tim McGraw quotes from "Q on CBC" interview

Tim McGraw recently gave a great, in depth interview with CBC-TV's Jian Ghomeshi in Canada.  The appearance is in support of his current tour and new CD TWO LANES OF FREEDOM.

While he wasn't shirtless during the interview, like his recent People Magazine appearance, he's just as smart and articulate as ever. Great answers.

They covered topics ranging from McGraw's new album and his old records, to his father and his own sobriety.

Here are his 12 best quotes from the interview:

"When you make a record, you give up a piece of your soul. There's a physical part of your body that goes in."

"Nobody wants to hear an artist who makes a lot of money complain."

"You're at the prom, and everybody else is dancing, but you're stuck in a chair over in the corner."

"It's about being attacked viscerally by something. From the first verse, I can know if I'm gonna like a song or not."

"I can't imagine being up there singing 'Indian Outlaw' or 'I Like It, I Love It' at 65 years old."

"When you know, you know. You can't be too cerebral in this business."

"You don't get into this business without some sort of egotistical thought that you wanna be the biggest artist that there's ever been. On the other hand, there's this compete insecurity of not thinking you're good enough."

"Art's for art. Money's for pizza."

"[My dad] gave me this confidence without ever meaning to, without ever being part of my life. To think there are other things I could reach for in life, it made me think it was in me, as well."

"It's like an avalanche of your life catching up with you, and it just got to a point where I realized instead of facing things I was covering things up. I was using alcohol -- and drugs to some extent -- to get through things. There was only one place I could look, and that was in the mirror."

"You can fail at any moment. You're on a high wire act. If you're doing it right, you're being vulnerable."

"This is not a swan song album."


Watch the full interview below:

(via CMT)

Tim McGraw on Chelsea Lately

Tim McGraw on Chelsea Lately recounts "one of the best and worst" nights of his life onstage with Bruce Springsteen.

Tim's new CD (debuted at #1 on the Billboard Country chart), TWO LANES OF FREEDOM, is available now.

Tim McGraw on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Tim McGraw on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno talks about his shirtless photo shoot for People Magazine, his fitness routine, backstage life with his wife Faith Hill, touring and his new CD "Two Lanes of Freedom."

Tim McGraw shirtless in People Magazine

Earlier I posted a short "behind the scenes" video of Tim McGraw's shirtless People Magazine photo shoot.

Well, here's one of the shots, and let's hear it for Tim!

Tim McGraw shares with People Magazine that he has a new tour coming up, he quit drinking, and he can walk around without his shirt and feel good.

Asked about his workout routine, he teases his famous wife Faith Hill:

"I have tried working out a couple of times with her and afterward, I can't move,” says McGraw, who sometimes joins Hill at their home gym to burn calories.

When asked about her routine, McGraw jokes, "It's like, leg warmers and Olivia Newton-John's 'Physical.'"

A high-pitched giggle from Hill interrupts McGraw, forcing him to set the record straight: "Faith says it is nothing like that." McGraw then pauses before going on, "But yeah, it's me with my headband on and leg warmers..."

Behind the scenes with shirtless Tim McGraw at People Magazine

Behind the scenes with shirtless Tim McGraw at his People Magazine photo shoot.

Tim talks on staying fit (which he clearly is), how to keep peace in his household and what a "perfect day" would be for him.

And go check out his upcoming CD "Two Lanes of Freedom."

Tim McGraw & Faith Hill to headline in Las Vegas

Tim McGraw and Faith Hill will open their own superstar run in Las Vegas at the Venetian Hotel and Casino this winter.

The show will be called "Soul 2 Soul" and  tickets will go on sale August 13th at 8am.  Tickets will start at $95.50 and go up to $250.

At this point, there will be ten weekends of shows - 4 shows per weekend.

Word is the show will open around December 7-8  and the show will be a brand new, "built from the ground up" production.

At the announcement Tim McGraw said "This is all about us together."

Also, commenting on the past trend of stars "retiring" to Las Vegas, Tim said "It's not the same Vegas.  You can come here at the peak of your career."

I'll definitely be seeing the fab couple.  I'm a big fan of both and love how they handle their careers with class, dignity and talent.

Faith Hill and Tim McGraw at the announcement of their Las Vegas gig

Tim McGraw in American Songwriter Magazine

Photo: Danny Clinch

Tim McGraw has a new interview in American Songwriter Magazine.  I really like Tim's music, the way he handles himself, and of course the way he looks  :) 

Here's an excerpt of the interview and you can read the whole interview here.

What did you hope to achieve when you got to Nashville? What was your ultimate goal?

I was playing clubs at home and I wanted to come and be a country star. That’s what I wanted to do. I wanted to play country music. Songwriting wasn’t the main focus. I mean, I was writing songs. Those first two or three years, I had written a couple hundred songs with writers all over town. They’re floating around out there somewhere. A couple may be good but most of them were awful. I really wanted to be an artist and get an artist deal.

Who were your heroes back in those days?

If I had to pick two, I would pick Merle Haggard and Bruce Springsteen. Those were my songwriting heroes.

“Live Like You Were Dying” is such an interesting song because it’s about cancer, but it’s also very empowering and catchy.

It’s one of the best-crafted songs I’ve ever heard. Craig Wiseman and Tim Nichols are fantastic. Of course it was at a time in my life when some things were going on, so that song struck a chord. My dad was sick and dying of cancer.

What do you remember about recording the song?

I wanted it to feel inspiring. I didn’t want it to feel like, “Oh my gosh, this guy is dying of cancer.” I wanted it to be the opposite of that. I wanted to take everything positive and we all had positive thoughts going into it.
I recorded that album with my band in upstate New York at Allaire Studios. We’ve done a couple of albums up there. My dad had just died a couple of weeks prior to this. We were in the studio around midnight. My uncle was there – my dad’s older brother. The studio was all decked out. We sent an interior designer up to the studio, which was at the top of a mountain with three feet of snow around it. There was a big fireplace and candles. I had a glass vocal booth built in the middle of the center of the room where I could conduct everybody in the band.

Anyway it was midnight or 1 o’clock in the morning when we decided to cut this song. No lights were on. All the candles were going. My uncle was sitting there on the couch. That was an inspired track.

Do aspiring songwriters have a level playing field with you?

I think so. Look, it’s not easy. I’m not going to lie and say anybody can get a song to me any time they want. But if you look back on my career, I’ve had a lot of songs that were the songwriter’s first cut. I think on just about every album, there’s a songwriter or two that had their first cut.

What’s the reward in that for you?

It’s when you run across a guy, or somebody’s son or daughter or wife, and they tell you that getting that cut changed their life. That’s a reward for me because there are a lot of guys who have the talent that end up coming here for a couple of years, then leave and never show up again.

Tim McGraw and Faith Hill in Las Vegas?

Photo credit: Erik Kabik

Rumors are flying that country king and queen Tim McGraw and Faith Hill about to sign contracts to topple their pal Garth Brooks from his lofty reign on the Strip? Word is they’ll sign on for a series of weekend concerts from November to April to be in competition with Garth.

The deal would be for concerts in an 1,800-seat theater within a guitar pick’s throw of Steve Wynn’s Encore Theater where Garth headlines. It’s so close to being signed that Tim and Faith have scrapped plans to go out on tour together so they can enjoy a residency here. It can’t start sooner because Tim is touring with Kenny Chesney this summer.
(source)

Tim McGraw and Faith Hill in Melbourne, Australia

Cool one minute video. Wish I had been there. Loved Melbourne, Australia.

And who doesn't love Faith Hill or Tim McGraw?

Tim McGraw backstage

I've tried juggling. IT'S HARD!

Tim McGraw's new album arrives Jan. 24 - "Emotional Traffic"

Via press release: With 2012 freshly out-of-the-box, Curb Records offers an adrenaline rush to country music’s new year with the January 24 release of Tim McGraw’s latest album, Emotional Traffic—a studio project the iconic performer named ‘Artist of the Decade’ by Nielsen BDS proclaims as a ‘best ever’ creative effort in his more than three decades of hit music.

Creatively collaborating on the production with Bryon Gallimore his longtime producer whose fingerprints are consistently found throughout the remarkable McGraw dynasty of 32 #1 singles and 44 million units of music sold, Emotional Traffic leaves little doubt of the foundation material McGraw’s now legendary career has been built-in. It’s the artistic brick and mortar of great songs and a great talent.

The new 12 track set fast lanes with McGraw’s latest #1 single, "Felt Good On My Lips", certified digital gold. His current single, "Better Than I Used To Be", is now climbing the charts and is also included here. Of the sessions that produced the new music, McGraw noted in an interview with the Cleveland Plain Dealer on August 9: “…one of the best song I’ve ever recorded and certainly one of the best records we’ve ever made.”

Curb Records is set immediately to further announce the availability of two digital single releases from the new package which will be exclusive to iTunes and available prior to Emotional Traffic reaching its official in store street date of Tuesday, January 24.

The track listing for Emotional Traffic is as follows:

1. Halo
2. Right Back Actha Babe
3. One Part, Two Part
4. I Will Not Fall Down
5. The One
6. Better Than I Used To Be
7. Touchdown Jesus
8. The One That Got Away
9. Felt Good On My Lips
10. Hey Now
11. Only Human
12. Die By My Own Hand

Tim McGraw was won multiple Grammy® Awards, 14 Academy of Country Music Awards, 11 CMA Awards, 10 American Music Awards, a trio of People’s Choice Awards and numerous other industry awards and accolades to varied to mention. His creativity has branched from music to acting—having starring roles in such films as the Oscar nominated blockbuster, The Blind Side (2009) and a breakthrough to major film in the 2004 release of the critically acclaimed Friday Night Lights.

In summer 2012, Tim McGraw will join Kenny Chesney on the “Brothers of the Sun Tour,” already anticipated to become one of the highest grossing tours of the year across all genres.

Check out the CD on Amazon.com

Tim McGraw on breaking a bone in his foot on tour

"FOOTBALL, BASEBALL, car wrecks, bar fights, bullridin'...and this is the first broken bone I've ever had!" - Tim McGraw on breaking a bone in his foot while on tour

THIS is a great performer. The show went ON!  What a great singer, songwriter and performer.

For the first time in his career, Tim performed in a cast (due to a broken foot), and experienced a momentary pacing setback.

McGraw says he looks forward to a great show tonight in Virginia Beach and the rest of this summer's Emotional Traffic Tour.