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"She's My Kind Of Rain" - Tim McGraw

from the album Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors (2002)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #27 (one week)

Weeks in the Top-40: 9

 

Today's song comes from country music star Tim McGraw, who tackled the tough subject of young love and ending an unplanned pregnancy with the song "Red Ragtop". That first single from his Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors (which signaled he was using his own band) did OK, landing in the top-5 on Billboard magazine's Country Songs airplay chart. For him that was a let down, as some stations refused to play it, even some diverting to his cover of Elton John's "Tiny Dancer" from the album, which ended up getting enough airplay to spend 15 weeks on the Country Songs chart peaking at #49. 

The second official single from the record would be the mid-tempo track "She's My Kind Of Rain". Written by Tommy Lee James and Robin Lerner, the song doesn't tackle any subject or draw comparison to an older version, but is a simple but nicely-pictured love ballad. The lyrics are more a stream of consciousness than a conversation, with Tim ending up throwing some weirdly-worded phrases if they were spoken, but sung in his higher-tenor take on just a little more weight. The production from Byron Gallimore and Darren Smith (along with Tim) is much more soft-rock in the mood of his wife Faith Hill, but with his vocal affectations clearly steers clear of trying to pander to the mainstream. The music video finds McGraw (as well as Faith and their children) in London...

"She's My Kind Of Rain" became the second top-40 crossover hit on Billboard's Hot 100 from the album in May of 2003. It spent three weeks at #2 on the Country Songs radio list. At the Grammy Awards in 2004, the song was nominated for Best Male Country Vocal Performance, losing to Vince Gill's "Next Big Thing". 

Tim and the Dancehall Doctors album will be back to the series.

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Here's a fan-filmed clip of Tim in concert...

Up tomorrow: This pocket-change rapper needs some answers.