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About: PR gal in my twenties. As soon as I figured out what I wanted to be when I grew up it became obsolete. Instead of writing for a newspaper I get to write here. My job is exciting and wonderful but exhausting at times, and when I do have the energy to remove my rear from the couch, I enjoy drinking all the wines, shopping for thousands of identical cardigans and striped items, cheering for the Alabama Crimson Tide, chasing after my insane English Bulldog, Denny, singing and dancing along with the Avett Brothers, and having as much fun as possible with my friends and family. Sometimes I think about exercising. And then I grab a bag of chips.

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npr:

First Listen: Tim McGraw, ‘Emotional Traffic’
This impeccably chosen set of ballads and booty-shakers — finally getting an official release after McGraw’s legal dispute with his label kept it under wraps for nearly two years — shows his range while it honors contemporary country’s paradigms. Working with his longtime partner Byron Gallimore, McGraw has fashioned a collection that’s both sophisticated and sweetly sentimental, with some satisfying twists.
Want to hear the album? We got you. — Tanya

Want to know a secret about me? I don’t dislike country music, and for some reason I enjoy it more in the summer time (there’s just so many good summer country songs about lakes and beers and trucks and driving around with the windows down,) but I usually choose talk radio (NPR or sports) or sometimes the pop radio station when I’m riding around town. But I have a secret soft spot for Tim McGraw. I love pretty much everything he does. I think it started with that barbecue sauce song in the 7th grade, and it hasn’t quit ever since. I probably listened to Set This Circus Down approximately 54,871 times in 8th/9th grade. Hearing “You Get Used to Somebody” and “Why We Said Goodbye” can make me feel like I’m right back in the middle of that first sad breakup I had freshman year of high school.
All this to say, I am not ashamed that I will spend the rest of the day streaming this new album from NPR. Thanks, guys!

npr:

First Listen: Tim McGraw, ‘Emotional Traffic’

This impeccably chosen set of ballads and booty-shakers — finally getting an official release after McGraw’s legal dispute with his label kept it under wraps for nearly two years — shows his range while it honors contemporary country’s paradigms. Working with his longtime partner Byron Gallimore, McGraw has fashioned a collection that’s both sophisticated and sweetly sentimental, with some satisfying twists.

Want to hear the album? We got you. — Tanya

Want to know a secret about me? I don’t dislike country music, and for some reason I enjoy it more in the summer time (there’s just so many good summer country songs about lakes and beers and trucks and driving around with the windows down,) but I usually choose talk radio (NPR or sports) or sometimes the pop radio station when I’m riding around town. But I have a secret soft spot for Tim McGraw. I love pretty much everything he does. I think it started with that barbecue sauce song in the 7th grade, and it hasn’t quit ever since. I probably listened to Set This Circus Down approximately 54,871 times in 8th/9th grade. Hearing “You Get Used to Somebody” and “Why We Said Goodbye” can make me feel like I’m right back in the middle of that first sad breakup I had freshman year of high school.

All this to say, I am not ashamed that I will spend the rest of the day streaming this new album from NPR. Thanks, guys!