If my waistline grows, I’ll be fine.” Mature material is okay, and even welcome in an environment where most performers are hyper-obsessed with youth. At one point in the opening title track, Tim McGraw is singing, “If one gray hair shows, I’ll be fine. In concert, these are the type of songs you can’t wait for the performer to get through so they can play the hits. It’s really quite shocking how sedated some of the lines and songs are in this record. Perhaps nobody can write a solid duet anymore. My guess is ol’ Scotty got a whiff of the demos of this thing and said, “Love ya Tim, but you’re going to have to go elsewhere to peddle this.” Beyond the background noise production that in moments veers towards Enya-and was primarily handled by McGraw and Hill themselves (which is never a good idea with a project like this)-the songwriting here is surprisingly subpar, and by a country music power couple known for their propensity to find the best material lurking in the publishing houses of Music Row and singing the hell out of it. We wondered when it was announced why Tim McGraw would part ways with Scott Brochetta’s Big Machine Records after things had been going so swimmingly for the last few years. Tim and Faith singing sappy love songs as they gaze in each other’s eyes is just the lubricant for the bored Cialis set. They come home after the concert a little tipsy, pay the babysitter or settle into the empty nest, and then have middle aged missionary sex before falling asleep in each others arms at a devilish 12:02. It’s 40-something and 50-something couples who will be into the type of mature love bird/adult contemporary material The Rest of Our Life delivers. This record is just a way to reinforce what is happening on stage.Īnd who is going to go to Tim McGraw and Faith Hill concerts? It’s certainly not the hip kids or the shit kickers. As we all know, touring is where the real money is for these massive superstars these days. Tim McGraw and Faith Hill are on this massive “Soul2Soul” tour together, and when folks have been to the concert, they want to buy Tim and Faith the home game. This album is a concert play not your typical studio record. The problem is what they were going for was just not very good. Look, I see what they were going for here.
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