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Let It Go
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  1. Audio CD: Release Date 2007-03-27
  2. Publisher: Curb
  3. Artist: Tim McGraw
  4. Format: Extra tracks
  5. Sales Rank in Music: #28033

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It's been nearly three years since Tim McGraw has released a studio album. Last March, he released Greatest Hits 2: Reflected, which became his ninth consecutive album to debut at No. 1 on the charts. On March 27th, he'll release his 11th album, Let It Go, which features the single "Last Dollar (Fly Away)." "I am really excited about this new studio album," says McGraw. "It was great to work with Byron Gallimore, Darran Smith and my band in the studio again and to build upon our work together."

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More of a happy-go-lucky artist in his younger days, Tim McGraw here sounds as if he carries the weight of the world on his shoulders. After the comparatively lighthearted, irresistibly catchy opening single, "Last Dollar (Fly Away)," most of the midtempo material that follows ranges from the somber to the morose. There's the night-shift weariness of "I'm Workin'," the alcohol-drenched heartbreak of "Whiskey and You," and the soul-tortured title track. Even a song with the upbeat title "Put Your Lovin' on Me" has McGraw asking his lover to "be my drug" and "take this weight off me." Things turn positively lethal with "Between the River and Me," the story of revenge on an alcoholic, wife-beating stepfather. The set also features the obligatory duet of marital devotion with Faith Hill ("I Need You") and a couple of nods toward classic country ("Kristofferson" and the closing "Shotgun Rider," which could be McGraw's "Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys"). "Nothin' to Die For" returns to the inspirational vein of "Live Like You Were Dying," but little here finds McGraw in a feel-good mode. --Don McLeese
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Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review
4.1 out of 5 stars (58 customer reviews)

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Don't let it go..., March 27, 2007
DanD - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Let It Go (Audio CD)
With his last two albums, Tim McGraw has been crafting the best music of his career. Gone is the "Indian Outlaw," the guy "likes it, loves it, and wants some more of it." Here is a McGraw who knows a good lyric when he hears it, who knows how to choose a song. He manages to make un-commercial material radio-ready, to take a song and make it his own.

On LET IT GO, he does it yet again. The album isn't quite as edgy as its two predecessors, but what it lacks in edginess, it makes up for in lyric and performance. One of McGraw's best qualities is his ability to take other artists' material and transform it into his own stuff; he does so here with Big Kenny's "Last Dollar," Lori McKenna's "I'm Workin'," Eddie Rabbit's "Suspicions," Anthony Smith's "Kristofferson" and "Shotgun Rider" (also co-written by Sherrie Austin and Jeffrey Steele), and the ever-reliable Warren Brothers' "Between the River and Me" and "Train #10" (the latter a co-write with McGraw).

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14 of 18 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars GO GET LET IT GO, March 27, 2007
Alan Dorfman - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Let It Go (Audio CD)
Tim McGraw didn't get to be a country superstar by having the best voice in Nashville. He did it by having the best ear in town. Every Tim McGraw CD has been marked by the impeccable selection of songs. And "Let Go" continues the family tradition. It's another collection of powerful songs including "Train No. 10," "Shotgun Rider," "Put Your Lovin' On Me" and "Comin' Home." These alone would be enough to make this CD a success but wouldn't earn it 5 Stars. For that you need a little bit more and different.

And Tim gives us the extra effort with a kids' chorus on "Last Dollar," a Metallica-like break on the brilliant "Between The River And Me" and by overturning our expectations of the usual duet with Mrs. McGraw by not giving us another syrupy love song but by choosing a meditation on the addictive nature of love, "I Need You" (I need you like a needle needs a vein) in which even Faith sings with a desperate gravitas we don't expect from her.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Good...but ,in need of more up-tempo tunes, October 1, 2007
S. Smith "Burgerman" (Colorado) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Let It Go (Audio CD)
I have every one of McGraw's CD's, and I always look forward to his new releases. I am sorry to say that on first listen, this CD was a bit disappointing. The message of many of the songs is just too heavy. Where is the fun? Where is the lighheartedness? "Last Dollar" is the most up-tempo song on the CD, and unfortunately, it does not measure up to past favorites like , "I Like It,I Love It" "Something Like That," Real Good Man," "Down on the Farm," or "Do You Want Frries With That."

Tim McGraw can do great with a tear jerker, like "Please Remember Me" and "Live Like You Were Dying," but none of the songs on this CD quite grab hold of me like those monster hits. Even his duet with Faith Hill is weak-- they never actually sing together on the song, they just take turns singing solos to each other.

The best tracks on the CD are "Let It Go," a powerful song with a great message and a catchy, repetitious chorus. And "Between the River and Me" is a great story song...Read more

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