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Tim McGraw just released his new album, Sundown Heaven Town, and he hopes his fans will take note of the CD cover because he put a lot of thought and effort into it. Tim worked with Nick Egan, a renowned visual design artist, and director of music videos, commercials and film, who has designed album covers for people like Bob Dylan, Duran Duran and INXS. Tim says a great cover for his new album was important to him because “A lot of times an album cover is somethin’ that you’ll remember and somethin’ that’s iconic and also makes you remember the music and also makes you think of the music and all those kinds of things. I think I’ve always been a big fan of album covers and so I’ve always tried to put a lotta work into that throughout my career. I wanted to do somethin’ that made a statement in a lotta ways, and make this record sorta stand out. It’s a piece of art.”
Mostly, Tim doesn’t want anybody to think the cover of Sundown Heaven Town was an afterthought. “I don’t want anybody to look at that and say there’s not some effort that was involved in that. And I think that that’s the key thing. Then you wanna present a package and present an album cover that represents the music, represents the effort that went into the music.”
Sundown Heaven Town is available in a standard 13-song version and a deluxe 18 song version and it features Tim’s brand new single, “Shotgun Rider.”
