''Standing Room Only'' is the sixteenth studio album by American
country music
Country (also called country and western) is a popular music, music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and American southwest, the Southwest. First produced in the 1920s, country music is p ...
singer
Tim McGraw, released through
Big Machine Records on August 25, 2023. It was produced by McGraw and
Byron Gallimore and preceded by the title track and lead single, "
Standing Room Only", as well as the track "Hey Whiskey".
Background
McGraw revealed that he had been working on the album since 2020, and called it "some of the most emotional, thought-provoking, and life-affirming music I've ever recorded".
Track listing
Personnel
Musicians
*
Tim McGraw – vocals
*
Paul Bushnell – bass guitar (all tracks); keyboards, piano (12)
*
Shannon Forrest – drum
programming, drums, percussion
* Charlie Judge – keyboards, piano
*
Jamie Muhoberac – keyboards, piano
*
Dan Dugmore –
steel guitar
* Greg Barnhill – background vocals (1–10, 12, 13)
*
Ilya Toshinskiy – acoustic guitar (1–3, 5, 7, 8, 13), banjo (8, 10, 11)
* Adam Schoenfeld – electric guitar (1, 2, 4, 7, 9–11, 13)
* Dave Levita – electric guitar (1–6, 8, 12, 13)
*
Michael Landau
Michael Christopher Landau (born June 1, 1958) is an American musician, audio engineer, and record-producer. He is a session musician and guitarist who has played on many albums since the early 1980s with Boz Scaggs, Minoru Niihara, Joni Mitchel ...
– electric guitar (1–3, 5–13)
*
Byron Gallimore – keyboards, piano (1, 2, 4, 10, 11, 13); electric guitar (3, 11), acoustic guitar (6)
* Troy Lancaster – electric guitar (3, 5, 6, 12)
*
Larry Franklin –
fiddle
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(3)
* B. James Lowry – acoustic guitar (4, 9–11)
* Sol Littlefield – electric guitar (4, 7–11)
*
Danny Rader – acoustic guitar (6, 12)
*
Aubrey Haynie – fiddle (9)
*
Lori McKenna
Lorraine McKenna ( Giroux; born December 22, 1968) is an American folk, Americana, and country music singer-songwriter. In 2016, she was nominated for the Grammy Award for Song of the Year and won Best Country Song for co-writing the hit singl ...
– background vocals (11)
Technical
* Tim McGraw –
production
* Byron Gallimore – production,
mixing
* Adam Ayan –
mastering
* Eric Lutkins –
engineering
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, mixing assistance
* Shannon Forest – engineering
Charts
References
{{Tim McGraw
2023 albums
Albums produced by Byron Gallimore
Big Machine Records albums
Tim McGraw albums