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Tim McGraw

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“Of old wood stove, and there were a bunch of guys all in their 70s and 60s that were all playing country music. And I happened to go be out that area one day and it was in the middle of nowhere. And so I stopped in and sat down and started playing guitar with these guys. So they kept inviting me to come back. So it ended up being, it was about 30 miles from school. So every Thursday night, it ended up being like five or six cars of my fraternity brothers. We'd all go to this little hole in the wall place with all these 70-year-old guys. And they would give us free beer and crawfish as long as I sit back there and sing with them. And it ended up that place becoming packed and packed and packed where there were just people there every Thursday night. And it just became a really fun thing. So when I moved to Nashville, Pole Boy Don who owned that and it was a farm or two and he owned all the farmland around. And just he played the bass and everything. And his store, he just really loved me and loved to hear me sing. So I needed a demo.”
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“After I'm not returning my calls, and I have to back up just a little bit because there was this little place called Po Boy Dons in Tallulah, Louisiana that was in the middle of a cotton field. And it was just a little wood frame shack, but it was like a convenience store slash deer butcher shop slash crawfish bowl kind of place. And in the back of the store, they had a bunch of stumps.”
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“Now it's what the big thing they have at the stadium every year where everybody plays. But back then, fanfare was when you would just sit and stand in a booth for three days and sign autographs for thousands and thousands of people that would come through. So this was going on when you're, of course, I wasn't signing autographs. I didn't have a record label. So I decided I'm going to go buy curb records and see if Mike Borchetta is in his office. And I'd had a demo of these three”
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“Way I got into his office is because, oddly enough, it was because of Tug. A guy named Bruce Wendell was a friend of Mike Borchettis and he happened to be a friend of Tucks. So Tug was talking to Bruce Wendell one day and Bruce says, I know a guy named Mike Borschetta down in Nashville. Maybe I can get him a meeting with Tim. And that was it. So I got his phone number. That's all they gave me. So I kept trying and trying and trying to get a meeting with him. I couldn't get a meeting with him. So it was during fanfare one year.”
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“Mike Boschetta stands out. Mike Borschetta, who signed me to my record deal at Curb Records, and he was somebody who I walked off the street had a demo of a few songs. He tried to kick me out of his office and I made him listen to the songs.”
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“I think it's just a matter of just being out and being around people and just learning who the people are who are going to be aspirational to you and inspirational to you and who the people are going to hold you in place.”
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“Because I needed to learn for one thing. Because I knew nothing about the music business, how to make a record. I knew nothing about anything except for how to sing along to the radio and then, you know, play some songs I learned on the guitar. I was an amateur, period, at everything. So I just wanted to be around people who knew what they were doing and people who could teach me things and people that were willing to teach me stuff and people that if I wanted to compete If I can't compete with this guy who's playing in a club in downtown Nashville, then I'm not going to compete with the guys who have record labels and they're selling millions of records.”
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“It can be difficult because it's not about dropping friends. But it's about gathering friends, people that you want to be like, or they have traits that you want to emulate.”
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“You're getting held back, where you start realizing you need to put more aspirational people around you as opposed to people who are just being happy doing what they're doing. And I try to tell that they're my daughters all the time.”
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“Just run around being involved every night being at somebody's apartment playing music, writing songs every day, out every night, singing in all these clubs. It was just an immersion experience of art where you learn so much, you learn from different singers, you hear somebody sing and you think, wow, how did they do that? How can I imitate people? You figure things out. You see what somebody's doing on stage. You see how somebody's singing. You have somebody songwriting. It just becomes this sort of gumbo of all this magic that you find and it starts into every pore of your body and you just open yourself up to it and just try to learn as much as you can. It can be heartbreaking too at the same time, you know, when you see and then also recognizing”
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“You hear great song Yeah, and songs that end up making my career. I think instantly it just lit a fire under me. When you jump into a pool of people who are like-minded, Who are all chasing the same thing? There's just such an energy that you get from everybody that's doing it. Tracy Lawrence Kenny Chesney and I were best friends. And we ran around together everywhere. None of us had record deals and we would compete all these clubs like you could get up and sing and you could win 50 bucks. I got the most hand applause. So we were always competing to get rental money. That's cool. Try to outdo it. Tracy usually always won because he was the best singer out of all of the time.”
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“That because I was playing clubs at night there too and just decided to do a full time start playing clubs in Florida. And did that. Then I moved back to Monroe, played for about three months, and then moved Nashville.”
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“Year two gigs. I don't know 100 maybe at clubs, you know, mostly just me and me and a guitar, some with a band. I actually went to Jacksonville for about six months because my mom had moved to Jacksonville after I started college because she just went through another divorce and it was a terrible divorce. So she moved to Jacksonville, which is where she grew up. So Jacksonville Junior College had just won the junior college World Series. Coach heard about me couple years ago back in high school. He knew my mom somehow. Anyway, invited me to come to play baseball at Florida Junior College. So I thought, all right, this is getting old here. I'm playing music. I'm not really going to class like I should. Maybe I should go out there and try and play baseball, see what happens. So I moved to Florida. Same thing. Showed up. I was going to play baseball. Hung around for a little while. Realized that I really didn't want to do that.”
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“And it was so shocking and unexpected that it gave me all the confidence in the world that I needed. And then when I first moved here back to where you think everybody grows up since they were a little kid with a guitar in their hands and singing, and that's how they become famous when I first moved here and started going to clubs and sitting in, I was thinking, wait a minute, I can hang with these guys. I can hang with these guys. I can find my niche here”
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“That is probably true. So I had to call my mom, and I was scared to death because I knew how badly she wanted me to complete school and go to law school I know how badly she wanted that for me and for her because of the sacrifices that she had made. Because, you know, people had wanted her to give me up for adoption, all sorts of stuff. And she was a 17-year-old girl that hung on to a kid. But I called her and told her what my plan was, embraced myself, fully expecting my little Italian mom to give me a good wearing out because she can do that. And what she said is going to make me cry what she said. But she said, son, I'm surprised you haven't done it already. And if you don't, you'll never know. So you should go.”
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“Thought that I could always go back to that, and I can't always go back to the music because there come a point where that's passed. But the hardest part was having to call my mom because my mom was really intent on me making something out of myself because of how hard our life was growing up and how hard her life was. She worked three jobs and going to work with black eyes and busted lips and, you know, just all the struggles that a single abused mom, well, not single, but abused mom has to do. She was pretty single for all intent and purpose. But I had to call her. I was in pre-law. My joke now is that I have paid more lawyers in my life than I would have ever made as well.”
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“I think I enjoyed it I think there were a few Yeah, I think there were a few obstacles that I figured was able to figure out in like moving stuff and how to build a bridge across just little things that I was able to figure out or or if I wasn't able to figure out just acted like I did and took charge of. And got it done, but I don't know. It's one of those things I was really interested to me. It made sense to me. And when you step into something, you don't know anything about and all of a sudden it clicks and makes sense. It just made sense. And it really sparked my interest in being in the military because I thought, wow, if I can be around all these guys who want to do this and this works out, maybe this is a career path for me. So, what was it? What was it? But I have so much respect. I mean”
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“Don't know. I guess because I did well in the class and he liked we got along well he kept coming to our fraternity house and hanging out with us. We just got along well and he liked me. As a matter of fact, we played it had to have been 15 years later after I had a lot of success. We played the bass in San Diego, military base in San Diego. And it was huge. It was packed. And I'm singing and playing and I'm standing in front of the stage and I look down and Captain Whitehead's right at the front of the stage.”
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“One night I decided I have everything packed. I sold everything I had, sold my car, water skis, shotguns, sold everything I had. I think I ended up with about $3,000. I have my guitar, one suitcase, and my marine paperwork sitting on my dresser. I said, When I wake up in the morning, I'll decide whether I'm going to move to Nashville or join the Marines. And I fell asleep, woke up the next morning, looked over, got up, picked up the marine paper, toured up, put it in the garbage, and went and bought a Greyhound bus ticket. Ended up in Nashville.”
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“Yeah. And I got to know the instructor Captain Whitehead was his name. He was an army guy, head of the Rotzi and everything there. And all the guys in the class were Rotzi guys, ROTC. Anyway, we took the class and it was tactics and we were in the field doing stuff we'd spend a weekend tracking, even doing all the stuff, repelling all kinds of stuff. It was a great course. And at the end of the course, everybody was asked to vote who was our platoon leader. Well, I got voted by all the Razi guys as the platoon leader for the class, for the year. So I was the top student in the class. And so Captain Whitehead took a big interest in him, but he thought I should be a Marine. So he kept taking me to the Marine Recruiting Office. So I visited the Marine Recruiting Office quite a bit, filled out all my paperwork.”
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“First off, the encouragement I got from my friends in college, my fraternity buddies, which That could go either way when you're trying to play guitar and sing songs from your buddies in a fraternity that could go the wrong way. But when it didn't, when they were encouraging me and they were giving me credit and telling me how good I was, to me, that was a big deal for a bunch of guys to take your friends to tell you that when you're just trying to figure it out and you don't even know anything about it, really, for them to tell you that you're good and they want to hear you do it and they ask you to sing all the time. So when I started playing clubs and stuff, I would get good reaction from the crowds and then the owners would come over and say, hey, would you want to come back? And, you know, you guys are the best band we've had. You know, stuff like that. And then I took a military science class.”
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“By the way, I am still a terrible guitar player. I can play well enough to write my songs in the same place. You just made it work for it.”
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“So Over that summer, I learned about 50 songs and I just started playing just me and a guitar at this little catfish house called Cock of the Walk. And that was my first gig. And that's how I paid my rent for a while.”
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“Yeah, early YouTube. And then on music sheets that had these little guitar fret things where it would show you where your fingers went. So I spent a lot of years where my fingers are in the wrong position, but I would still make the cord. And my buddy, my roommates would hide my guitar for the longest time because I was so bad. But then when I started getting pretty good at it, they would hide it. I couldn't find it. But when chicks would come over to the house, they would grab my guitar and bring it to me. And what we just start playing dance monkey dance. Exactly.”
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“At Northeast Louisiana, which is ULM now, but back then it was Northeast Louisiana University. So I bought the guitar and all of my friends had moved away for the summer. It's my freshman summer college. I had a job where I worked four hours a day to plant nursery in the mornings, just moving stuff. And I'd come home and just, I'd watch CMT and watch where their fingers were on the guitars.”
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“And I thought I could play some clubs around town, it'd be fun to do. I even thought, look, my biggest stream I could have here is get a house gig somewhere where I'm making money every week and playing music.”
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“And spend all of my time here. So I ended up not playing ball, joined a fraternity. Hawned my high school ring and bought a guitar for 20 bucks.”
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“Yeah, this is just something you can't just do unless you're trained to do it since you're a little kid. So I got into college, that's when I realized when I got into college and I went out for the first football sort of roundup and to see everybody when I looked around and thought, all right.”
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“So it was always something, but I was in the same category that you were thinking that the guys you're here on the radar guys that have been doing this since they were three or four years old, they're trained musicians. They're guys that”
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“I was always seeing to the point to where my sisters were always like, shut up, just shut up. Just stop singing. And I still do it to this day. Somebody can say a word and I'll sing a song that's got that word in it. It's just in me. I can't get it out.”
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“Well Well, the music thing came about because of my mom's love for music. Because from my earliest memory, the time I can remember, my mom was always singing and playing records around the house and always had the radio wide open. So I knew every song on the radio. And she would encourage me to sing. She always wanted me to sing along with her on the radio. So I knew every song on the radio would sing with my mom all the time. We would walk around the house singing in church. I mean, my friend used to give me shit all the time playing baseballs. I played shortstop and the whole time I'm out there. I'm singing songs.”
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“Those two things make perfect sense. Your vision of their life and your expectations of their life, don't let it cloud your love and guidance for them.”
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“Whether he meant to, and he didn't, or knew it, or any of those things. He gave me a reason to think that I can get out of the situation that I was in, that if he can do that, then I have it in me to do something. And so for that reason alone, I couldn't hate him.”
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“I get asked a lot, and you said it right. A lot of people now don't know the story. They knew it at the beginning of my career, but a lot of people that know my career now that know who my dad was, they think that I grew up in that world and I didn't. So I'm glad we're talking about this because a lot of people can understand now that I didn't grow up in that world. But the longest short of it is when people ask, how could you have anything to do with your dad? How could you have not hated him? How could you have just not turned your back on him? My answer always is he gave me something. Was so precious, and that was hope.”
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“But after that, we ended up starting to see more of each other and me going while I was in college, I would drive up the Philly and visit and got to know my little brother Mark and my little sister Carrie, which was great to come out of that. But I always, this is what I'll get back to. At the end of the day,”
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“There was a point during dinner, small talk, where I asked mom if she could leave us alone and let us talk for a minute. And of course, mom didn't want to do that. And I assured her that I had this. This was fine. And as soon as she left, I just looked at Tug and says, look, I'll sign your contract. I'll never talk to you again. I won't bother you. I just have one question for you. And I asked him, do you think you're my dad? And he says, yes, I believe I am. And he said, we'll tear the contract up. And then I didn't hear from him for four years.”
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“He met us for lunch. We talked for a little while and he just said, you know, I'm not your dad. I don't think I'm your dad, but we can be friends kind of deal. Went to the game. Had a Pete Rose magazine where Pete Rose was about to break.”
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“She had just found out she was pregnant with me. And then I have her senior portrait that she took that they always take at the beginning of the senior year, and she had just found out two days before the senior portrait she was pregnant with me. And every time I look at that portrait, I can see it in her eyes. I can see that her whole future had just disappeared in front of her. She told me the whole story and said that she hadn't talked to him since. and hasn't heard from him. And I said, what I'd like to meet him, you know. So she got in touch with his lawyer somehow, his agent somehow. He was still playing at the time. And they ranged somehow mom borrowed a car from her boss and some money from her boss. He said he would leave tickets for us and have lunch with us. We drove there.”
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“Her junior summer in high school. Her mom had just left her dad by grandpa, and they were staying. In a mot Had a pool with the outdoor, you know, like a motor court motel they were staying in. And it just so happened that my grandmother and my mom were staying there, but it just so happened that the minor league team, Jacksonville Sons, the minor league team for the Mets, all the ball players were staying in that hotel as well. So Tug and my mom met at the pool and sort of dated over the summer. And when he left, he got called up or whatever and left. She found out she was pregnant. My mom was a dancer and she had just gotten invited to try out for where the action is by Dick Clark, which was like his first show, the precursor to American bandstand, all that stuff. So my mom had just gotten a letter inviting her to audition for it.”
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“And I saw McGraw where he had a line had been drawn through it. And right above it written by hand and pencil with Smith, which was my stepdad's name. And then it said dad's occupation professional baseball player. And of course at being 11 years old and growing up, we were like low, low middle class and didn't have any money and seeing something like that. It was just so hard to register. It didn't seem real and oddly enough had three baseball cards on my wall in my room. His was one of them because he was one of my favorite players. So I instantly called my mom and I could tell that it hit her like a ton of bricks. She was at work. And I'm like, mom, what is this? My birth certificate? What does this mean? And then she was like, oh my God. And that's all she said. And she said, I'll be right home. And then she came home and we went for a ride.”
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“In Louisiana, Little Town start Louisiana where I grew up, a little farming community. I mean, it's just a caution like the cotton gin. That's where I grew up. So I was in her looking for the little bag trying to find some quarters or something to go buy a candy bar at the store or something. I found a bag and there was a box right next to it. It opened the box and right on top was my birth certificate I didn't think much of it. I started looking at it.”
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“Was 11, and mom had kept in her closet like a crown royal bag that was full of coins, but she always put it in different places. Because when I was going, you know, you had the concession stand at school for a quarter, you could get a candy bar back then or like 10 cents, you could get a Coke or something.”
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“No, I don't want to be athletic. You know what I mean? Yeah, the whole big muscle thing, I don't want to, I'm not going to fall into that. I'm too skinny for that anyway. Yeah, I think there's a.”
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“That's fine. Probably good for your longevity, too. For sure. And my goal in Oregon is I never want to be big. I don't want to be.”
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“In the morning, yeah, if I don't do it in the morning, it's tough for me to do it, and then that also includes. The older you get into special with injuries, you got to really try to every advantage you can get. So, I do a lot of red light therapy, red light hot therapy, steam, cold plunges. So I do a lot of that. So that's, you know, that's a good 30 minutes at the end of the workout to get all that stuff in. Because I do multiple circuits of that.”
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“Tried to cut it down to two hours a day, but that includes usually walk an hour or 30 minutes to warm up for my knees to get going, my back. So walking's always my start out, whether it's 30 minutes or an hour just to walk, to loosen everything up and do a lot of body weight stuff and a lot of stretching. I never lift heavyweights. I don't do heavyweights at all. I try not to do deadlifts anymore because of my back. Although the doc says I can do them light, but I'm still scared of them. So I do a lot of body weight stuff and a lot of circuit training and then just try to do everything I do with intent and purpose and discipline and make sure everything's lined up properly when before I never would do that. I knew what I was doing. I've had some good trainers in my life. I knew what I was doing. But, you know, you get in a hurry and you fall back and start doing the same old stuff and you don't think, you don't put your head into what you're doing. I just have to be a lot more conscious about how I move and what I do.”
2026-02-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #852: Tim McGraw — Starting Late with a $20 Guitar, Selling 100M+ Records, and 30+ Years of Creative Longevity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Absolutely Year. Well, there was about six weeks where I didn't do anything at all, which was almost impossible for me to do. And that's probably why some of my back surgeries didn't work as well as they should have because I tried to go back too soon. Him get back in shape”
2026-02-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #852: Tim McGraw — Starting Late with a $20 Guitar, Selling 100M+ Records, and 30+ Years of Creative Longevity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But I do think that, and people will argue with me about this, but I believe it to my core, that had I not done that and decided to change my lifestyle, change my workout routine the way I looked and took care of myself, that I don't think my career would have lasted this long.”
2026-02-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #852: Tim McGraw — Starting Late with a $20 Guitar, Selling 100M+ Records, and 30+ Years of Creative Longevity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Is four Christmases, the movie that I just done, and my face pops on the screen. And my daughter looked at the screen, then looked at me, and she said, geez, Dad, you need to do something because it looked.”
2026-02-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #852: Tim McGraw — Starting Late with a $20 Guitar, Selling 100M+ Records, and 30+ Years of Creative Longevity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right now, I'm 170. We went to see another movie, and I'd taken my kids, and they were small. Completely not even thinking about my movie. And of course, the very first trailer that pops up.”
2026-02-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #852: Tim McGraw — Starting Late with a $20 Guitar, Selling 100M+ Records, and 30+ Years of Creative Longevity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT