Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors

Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors
Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors
Studio album by Tim McGraw
Released	November 26, 2002
Genre	Country
Length	1:06:10
Label	Curb
Producer	Byron Gallimore; Tim McGraw; Darran Smith;
Tim McGraw chronology
Singles from Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors
	"Red Rag Top"; Released: September 16, 2002; "Tiny Dancer"; Released: December 30, 2002; "She's My Kind of Rain"; Released: January 20, 2003; "Real Good Man"; Released: May 19, 2003; "Watch the Wind Blow By"; Released: October 27, 2003;

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	(68/100)^[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
411Mania	(8/10)^[2]
About.com	^[3]
AllMusic	^[4]
Billboard	(favorable)^[5]
Blender	^[1]
Country Weekly	(favorable)^[6]
Entertainment Weekly	B^[7]
People	(mixed)^[8]
Robert Christgau	C+^[9]
Rolling Stone	^[10]

Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors is the seventh studio album by country musician Tim McGraw and the first to feature his band The Dancehall Doctors. It was released in November 2002 and was recorded on a mountaintop studio in upstate New York.^[11] Four singles were released. Two songs were in the movie Black Cloud, starring McGraw. The album also included a cover of Elton John's "Tiny Dancer", which was released only to the AC format, although it also reached the country charts from unsolicited airplay. The album debuted at number 2 on the Billboard 200 with first week sales of 602,000

Track listing[]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Comfort Me"	Don Poythress Craig Wiseman	5:23
2.	"Tickin' Away"	Lore Orion	4:19
3.	"Home"	Wiseman Tony Mullins	4:58
4.	"Red Rag Top"	Jason White	4:43
5.	"That's Why God Made Mexico"	James T. Slater	3:35
6.	"Watch the Wind Blow By"	Anders Osborne Dylan Altman	4:36
7.	"Illegal"	Orion	3:54
8.	"Sleep Tonight"	Angelo Petraglia Hillary Lindsey Troy Verges	4:02
9.	"I Know How to Love You Well"	Arne "Honda" Hovda Kristian Ottestad	5:10
10.	"Sing Me Home"	Gordon Kennedy Wayne Kirkpatrick	4:40^A
11.	"She's My Kind of Rain"	Tommy Lee James Robin Lerner	4:15
12.	"Who Are They"	Danny Tate Brad Warren	3:44
13.	"Real Good Man"	George Teren Rivers Rutherford	4:15
14.	"All We Ever Find"	Liz Rose Kim Patton-Johnston	3:20^A
15.	"Tiny Dancer"	Elton John Bernie Taupin	5:09

^ASong also featured in the movie Black Cloud

Personnel[]

Tim McGraw & the Dancehall Doctors

Tim McGraw – lead vocals
Jeff McMahon – keyboards
Denny Hemingson – electric guitar, baritone guitar, slide guitar, steel guitar, Melobar guitar
Bob Minner – acoustic guitar, dobro
Darran Smith – electric guitar
Dean Brown – fiddle, mandolin
John Marcus – bass
Billy Mason – drums
David Dunkley – percussion

Additional Musicians

Steve Nathan – synth horns (5), organ (5), Wurlitzer electric piano (11)
John Prestia – electric guitar (10), harmonica (12)
B. James Lowry – acoustic guitar (12)
Byron Gallimore – electric guitar (14)
Kirk "Jelly Roll" Johnson – harmonica (12)
Frank Macek – loops (1, 4, 8, 11)
David Campbell – string arrangements (8, 15)
Paul Buckmaster – string arrangements (11)

Background vocals

Greg Barnhill (1, 15)
Kim Carnes (1, 15)
Gene Miller (2-6, 8-15)
Chris Rodriguez (2-6, 8-14)
Don Henley (7)
Timothy B. Schmit (7)

Production[]

Byron Gallimore – producer
Tim McGraw – producer, creative director, photography
Darran Smith – producer
Julian King – tracking engineer
Ricky Cobble – second tracking engineer, additional engineer
Steve Churchyard – string engineer (8, 11, 15)
Dennis Davis – additional engineer
Jason Gantt – additional engineer
Tony Green – additional engineer
Hank Linderman – additional engineer
Erik Lutkins – additional engineer, assistant engineer, Pro Tools engineer
David Bryant – assistant engineer
Matthew Cullen – assistant engineer
Brandon Mason – assistant engineer
Chris Bittner – Pro Tools engineer
Cory Churko – Pro Tools mixing
Mike Shipley – mixing
Jeff Burns – mix assistant
Robert Hadley – mastering
Doug Sax – mastering
Harry McCarthy – technical assistant
John Prestia – technical assistant
Joey Supak – technical assistant
Kelly Clauge Wright – creative director, photography
Glenn Sweitzer – art direction, design
John Marcus – illustration
Scott Siman – illustration
Dean Brown – photography
Marina Chavez – photography
John Ward – photography
RPM Management – management

Studios

Tracked at Allaire Studios (Shokan, NY) and Emerald Entertainment (Nashville, TN).
Engineered at Emerald Entertainment, Sound Stage Studios and Profound Sound Recording Studios (Nashville, TN); Essential Sound (Houston, TX); O'Henry Sound Studios (Burbank, CA); Henson Recording Studios (Hollywood, CA).
Mixed at Record One (Sherman Oaks, CA).
Mastered at The Mastering Lab (Hollywood, CA).

Charts[]

Weekly charts[]

Chart (2002)	Peak position
US Billboard 200^[12]	2
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[13]	2

Year-end charts[]

Chart (2003)	Position
US Billboard 200^[14]	9
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[15]	3

Chart (2004)	Position
US Billboard 200^[16]	164
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[17]	24

Certifications[]


Region	Certification
Canada (Music Canada)^[18]	Platinum
United States (RIAA)^[19]	3× Platinum

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Critic reviews at Metacritic
^ 411Mania review Archived June 28, 2013, at archive.today
^ About.com review
^ Allmusic review
^ "Billboard review". Archived from the original on December 13, 2002. Retrieved May 3, 2013.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
^ Country Weekly review
^ Entertainment Weekly review
^ People review
^ Christgau, Robert (April 22, 2003). "Not Hop, Stomp". The Village Voice. New York. Archived from the original on February 9, 2013. Retrieved February 9, 2013.
^ "Rolling Stone review". Archived from the original on April 16, 2009. Retrieved July 20, 2007.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
^ [1]
^ "Tim McGraw Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved November 6, 2020.
^ "Tim McGraw Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved November 6, 2020.
^ "Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 2003". Billboard. Retrieved November 6, 2020.
^ "Top Country Albums – Year-End 2003". Billboard. Retrieved November 6, 2020.
^ "Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 2004". Billboard. Retrieved November 6, 2020.
^ "Top Country Albums – Year-End 2004". Billboard. Retrieved November 6, 2020.
^ "Canadian album certifications – Tim McGraw – Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors". Music Canada.
^ "American album certifications – Tim McGraw – Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors". Recording Industry Association of America.

External links[]

Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors at Metacritic

[Metacritic-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b Critic reviews at Metacritic

[2] 411Mania review Archived June 28, 2013, at archive.today

[3] About.com review

[4] Allmusic review

[5] "Billboard review". Archived from the original on December 13, 2002. Retrieved May 3, 2013.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

[6] Country Weekly review

[7] Entertainment Weekly review

[8] People review

[Christgau-9] Christgau, Robert (April 22, 2003). "Not Hop, Stomp". The Village Voice. New York. Archived from the original on February 9, 2013. Retrieved February 9, 2013.

[10] "Rolling Stone review". Archived from the original on April 16, 2009. Retrieved July 20, 2007.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

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[ac_Billboard200_Tim_McGraw-12] "Tim McGraw Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved November 6, 2020.

[ac_BillboardCountry_Tim_McGraw-13] "Tim McGraw Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved November 6, 2020.

[14] "Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 2003". Billboard. Retrieved November 6, 2020.

[15] "Top Country Albums – Year-End 2003". Billboard. Retrieved November 6, 2020.

[16] "Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 2004". Billboard. Retrieved November 6, 2020.

[17] "Top Country Albums – Year-End 2004". Billboard. Retrieved November 6, 2020.

[CanadaTim_McGrawTim_McGraw_and_the_Dancehall_DoctorsalbumCertRef-18] "Canadian album certifications – Tim McGraw – Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors". Music Canada.

[United_StatesTim_McGrawTim_McGraw_and_the_Dancehall_DoctorsalbumCertRef-19] "American album certifications – Tim McGraw – Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors". Recording Industry Association of America.

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