Track Listing

1. Last Dollar (Fly Away)
2. I'm Workin'
3. Let It Go
4. Whiskey and You
5. Suspicions
6. Kristofferson
7. Put Your Lovin' On Me
8. Nothin' To Die For
9. Between The River And Me
10. Train #10
11. I Need You
12. Comin' Home
13. Shotgun Rider
14. If You're Reading This

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13813 in Music
• Released on: 2007-03-27
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks

Amazon.com
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

Customer Reviews

I miss the fun Tim.......
I seem to be in the minority here, but I really preferred Tim McGraw with more fun catchy tunes. I loved "I Like It I Love It" andd such similar soongs. If you prefer that side of Tim McGraw, this cd may not be for you either.

Tim McGraw's music peek was hit with Live Like You Were Dying. That was such a profound lyric, especially with what he'd just been through with his own father. That is a serious song of his that I really like. This cd does not have a track that even comes close to Live Like You Were Dying.

Maybe it's growing up and getting older, but this cd seems to be too blah. The songs are slow tempo and some are WAY TOO country. Tim McGraw was a master of the catch phrase songs. He and Kenny Chesney have made a career out of those. Last Dollar is the only catch phrase songs on the cd. And I really miss the fun side of Tim. So this cd is not my favorite at all.

I'd say the cd is half good and half bad (6 good and 7 bad for me).

There are some great songs:

1. Last Dollar
2. Let It Go
3. Nothin' to Die For
4. Suspicions
5. Train #10
6. Comin Home

There are also some that I will habitually skip because they are too gloomy and depressing:

1. Kristofferson
2. The Whiskey and Me
3. Put Your Lovin on Me
4. I'm Workin
5. Between the River and Me
6. I Need You with FAith Hill (Oh for the love of Mary, we get it, you guys love each other but stop torchering us with it!)
7. Shotgun Rider

For me, Tim McGraw's best overall cd was Everywhere. There was a great balance of fun and sweet songs. Live Like You Were Dying and Set This Circus Down were also great, as was Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors. This one just doesn't measure up.

Of course, music is subjective, and you're certainly allowed to disagree. But if you're one of those people who has fun with the catchy Tim hits of the past, you might also be disappointed with this long awaited cd.

DON'T BE FOOLED BY (EXTRA TRACKS)
THIS CD IS NOT THE LATEST RELEASE OF "LET IT GO" CONTAINING THE SONG "IF YOU'RE READING THIS...".
THIS CD IS LISTED AS "LET IT GO (EXTRA TRACKS)", WHICH BY AMAZON DEFINITION MEANS, EXTRA TRACKS ARE BONUS SONGS NOT INCLUDED ON THE STANDARD CD RELEASE. IT IS A INCORRECT LISTING OF THE ITEM. IT IS THE STANDARD RELEASE VERSION.
I RATED IT A 1 STAR, BECAUSE I DID NOT GET THE VERSION LISTED THAT I WANTED, I.E. THE VERSION WITH (EXTRA TRACKS). A AMAZON ERROR, NOT TIM'S FAULT.
AS FAR AS TIM MC GRAW, HE'S ALWAYS A 5 STAR !!!
DON'T BE FOOLED, AS I WAS, REGARDING THE (EXTRA TRACKS VERSION).

Don't let it go...
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).

There's not a song on here that lags too far behind...all of 'em (including the duet with Faith Hill, "I Need You") are high-caliber songs, performed wonderfully by McGraw and his band. However, if you want some highlites, I'd have to go with the stone-cold country of "Kristofferson" (an off-handed tribute song that, strangely, works) and "Shotgun Rider"; the exquisite "Whiskey and You;" the whimsical "Last Dollar"; and the revenge rocker "Between the River and Me" (McGraw's version is indeed noteworthy, but pales next to the original found on the Warren Brothers' WELL-DESERVED OBSCURITY album). Basically, it's hard to go wrong with this album, which may indeed be one of the best of McGraw's career. It's a thinking-man's commerical country album, bridging the gap between radio and alternative...and nobody does that better today than Tim McGraw.