Tim McGraw is the first album by American country music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 artist Tim McGraw

Tim McGraw

Samuel Timothy "Tim" McGraw is an American country singer and actor. Many of McGraw's albums and singles have topped the country music charts with total album sales in excess of 40 million units in the US, making him the eighth best-selling artist, and the third best-selling country singer, in the...

, released in 1993. It includes the singles "Welcome to the Club", "Two Steppin' Mind" and "Memory Lane", none of which reached the Top 40 on the country charts. This is the only studio album of McGraw's career not to achieve a music recording sales certification

Music recording sales certification

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 or to enter the Top Country Albums charts. The tracks "Memory Lane" and "Tears in the Rain" were co-written by Joe Diffie

Joe Diffie

Joe Logan Diffie is an American country music singer known for his ballads and novelty songs. Between 1990 and 2004, Diffie charted 35 cuts on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, including five number one singles: his debut release "Home", "If the Devil Danced ", "Third Rock from the Sun",...

.

Brian Mansfield

Brian Mansfield

Brian Mansfield is an American writer and journalist. A longtime music writer and critic for USA Today, Mansfield is also the writer/producer of syndicated weekly radio program America's Opry Weekend for American radio network Dial Global Radio Networks and author and co-author of a number of books...

 and Thom Jurek of Allmusic rated the album three stars out of five, saying that it was not memorable outside its three singles, but that it showed the "roots of [his] individuality".

Track listing

1. "Welcome to the Club" (André Pesis, Steve Seskin
   Steve Seskin
   Steve Seskin is an American songwriter whose compositions have been recorded by Alabama, Kenny Chesney, Peter Frampton, Waylon Jennings, Brian McComas, Neal McCoy, Tim McGraw, John Michael Montgomery, Colin Raye, Tebey and Mark Wills...
   
   ) – 2:54
2. "Two Steppin' Mind" (Buddy Brock, John Northrup) – 3:01
3. "The Only Thing That I Have Left" (Clay Blaker) – 3:23
4. "You Can Take It With You (When You Go)" (Frank Dycus, Kerry Kurt Phillips) – 2:12
5. "Ain't No Angels" (Brad Davis, Billy Montana
   Billy Montana
   Billy Montana is an American country music singer-songwriter. Between 1987 and 1995, Montana released one studio album and charted six singles on Billboards Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart...
   
   ) – 3:06
6. "Memory Lane" (Joe Diffie
   Joe Diffie
   Joe Logan Diffie is an American country music singer known for his ballads and novelty songs. Between 1990 and 2004, Diffie charted 35 cuts on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, including five number one singles: his debut release "Home", "If the Devil Danced ", "Third Rock from the Sun",...
   
   , Lonnie Wilson) – 3:25
7. "Tears in the Rain" (Diffie, Wilson, Wayne Perry) – 3:20
8. "What She Left Behind" (Paul Nelson, Kenny Beard, Earl Clark) – 2:54
9. "What Room Was the Holiday In" (Jim Vest, Arti Portilla, Joyce Shoaf) – 3:08
10. "I Keep It Under My Hat" (Michael Higgins, Phillips, Kent Henderson) – 3:12

Personnel

• Larry Byrom
  Larry Byrom
  Larry Byrom is an American guitarist who has written, recorded, and toured with acts like Steppenwolf, Ratchell, Neil Young, Steve Winwood, Peter Frampton, Eddie Rabbit and Tanya Tucker.- References :...
  
   - acoustic guitar
  Acoustic guitar
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• Jim Carter - bass guitar
  Bass guitar
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• Mark Casstevens - acoustic guitar
• Glen Duncan - fiddle
  Fiddle
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• Sonny Garrish - steel guitar
  Steel guitar
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• James King - background vocals
• Paul Leim - drums
  Drum kit
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• Chris Leuzinger - electric guitar
• Gary Prim - keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
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• Brent Rowan - electric guitar
• James Stroud - drums
• Glenn Worf
  Glenn Worf
  Glenn Worf is one of the premier Nashville session bassists. He was born in Dayton, Ohio but grew up in Madison, Wisconsin and has concentrated on the bass guitar since he was thirteen. He majored in music at the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire. Inevitably his talents forced him to abandon the...
  
   - bass guitar
• Curtis Wright
  Curtis Wright
  Curtis Blaine Wright is an American country music artist. He made his debut in 1989 with the single "She's Got a Man on her Mind" on a branch of MCA Records, before recording a solo album in 1992 on Liberty Records...
  
  - background vocals
• Curtis Young - background vocals