Tim McGraw is returning to his country roots with a new song, “Good Taste in Women.” The Louisiana native dropped an acoustic version of the song, which will be on his upcoming Here on Earth album.
The song, which says in part, “I might like cheap beer and real bad jokes / Trucks that don’t start and quick stop smokes / But I got good taste in women / Yeah, I sleep like a baby in a Motel 6 / I like dive bar bands that can’t sing a lick / But I got good taste in women,” is part of an eclectic new record, which includes “Hallelujahville” and his current single, “I Called Mama.” The deluxe version of the record has a whopping 18 songs, but Tim still had more songs he wanted to add.
“I wanted to do even more,” Tim admitted to CMT. “We recorded over 25, but we mixed out 25 songs. I loved every one of them. The hardest part — at first I wanted to narrow the album down to 12. And then as I went through the process, I just couldn’t do it. I couldn’t get it narrowed down. There were so many songs.
“The songs that didn’t get on the album are still songs that I hope will show up some other time,” he added. “I wanted to do a big double album with 20, 25 sides. It’s just tough to hold people’s attention that long. I hope I can hold them long enough to listen to the 18 that we do have.”
Here on Earth has songs that cover a variety of topics and emotions, which was important to Tim.
“I want people to have an emotional connection, with characters, throughout the album,” the 53-year-old shared. “I didn’t really set out to make a concept album, but I did want to make an album that was sort of a tapestry of life in a lot of ways. Every song is sort of a vignette of parts of life that you go through as part of this path that we walk down.
“They’re not necessarily congruent, but they are really stuff that connects you to who you are and where you’re at and where you’ve been in life,” he continued. “I think that even if you can’t relate to what the song’s talking about specifically or the subject matter, I think you can find a way to make it relate to something in your life or some path that you’ve walked.”