Let’s talk about Tim McGraw for a minute. You’ve had a lot of success over the years with him cutting your songs and releasing many as singles, with No.1’s and Top 10’s that followed. Did you have a personal relationship with him early one in his career? Well it’s weird, and luckily I was actually [...]

(PHOTOS: Danny Clinch) Explore the May/June Issue On the day he moved to Nashville, Tim McGraw stepped off a Greyhound bus with a guitar and a suitcase. He arrived inauspiciously around 3 a.m. on May 9, 1989, and checked into small room at the Hall of Fame hotel, a few blocks off Music Row. The [...]

  My old friend I apologize For the years that have passed since the last time you and I Dusted off those memories But the running and the races The people and the places There was always somewhere else I had to be And time gets thin my old friend.  – “My Old Friend,” Tim [...]

Genre-bending country star Colt Ford is back with his third studio album, Every Chance I Get. Melding country and hip-hop, the Georgia native has collected an all-star cast of collaborators, including Tim McGraw, Charlie Daniels, Eric Church, and The Nappy Roots. It’s a far cry from his early work with Jermaine Dupri and Kriss Kross, [...]

(Songwriting legend Bill Anderson) From the press release: NASHVILLE – The CMA Songwriters Series will bring some of Nashville’s legendary hit makers to New York City’s Joe’s Pub on Wednesday, May 11 (6:30 and 9:00 PM/ET). Bill Anderson, Dean Dillon, Steve Wariner and Craig Wiseman will join host Bob DiPiero in sharing the stories behind [...]

Born in Nicholasville, Kentucky, Lee Thomas Miller graduated from Eastern Kentucky University in 1991 and hit the road to Nashville.