Tim McGraw

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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4.7 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Tim McGraw has built up a big base of fans over the thirty years since he stepped off a Greyhound bus in Nashville and walked right into a honky tonk. In this week’s “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist talks to the country star about graduating from those downtown bars to sold out arenas around the world, performing alongside his wife Faith Hill and putting out his 16th studio album “Here on Earth.”

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.
0:05.8	My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.
0:08.7	Got a good one for you this week.
0:10.4	A virtual conversation with country music icon Tim McGraw.
0:15.6	So Tim and I got together over Zoom the way we've been doing these lately.
0:20.1	He's at home in Nashville.
0:21.2	I'm at home in New York.
0:22.8	It's a funny thing.
0:23.8	You go out into your garage.
0:25.0	You flip open your laptop and there's Tim McGraw sitting in his living room.
0:28.4	So we had a great conversation.
0:30.2	There's something interesting about these guests being in their houses, being in their homes.
0:34.7	I think they're extra comfortable and there aren't lights and producers running around
0:38.5	and cameras and everything else.
0:40.6	So he's, we had a great conversation.
0:43.2	He of course arrived in Nashville about 30 years ago.
0:45.9	I didn't know the whole story.
0:47.1	It's almost too good to be true.
0:48.6	You'll hear us talk about that.
0:50.0	He got off a Greyhound bus and walked into a bar and just started playing.
0:54.2	It sounds like a country song on its own.
0:56.4	His new album is called Here on Earth.
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