{"id":19214,"date":"2019-10-10T07:27:03","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T13:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1812996"},"modified":"2019-10-10T07:27:03","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T13:27:03","slug":"why-tim-mcgraw-and-blanco-brown-crossed-paths-backstage-in-oz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/why-tim-mcgraw-and-blanco-brown-crossed-paths-backstage-in-oz\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Tim McGraw and Blanco Brown Crossed Paths Backstage in Oz"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:683021?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\">by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/bonaguroa\/\" title=\"Posts by Alison Bonaguro\" rel=\"author\">Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\">16m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Want to know the story behind the unlikely collaboration between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/tim-mcgraw\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Tim McGraw<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/blanco-brown\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Blanco<\/a> \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Q7U6AoZ27yE&amp;feature=youtu.be\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Git Up<\/a>\u201d Brown? It goes like this.<\/p>\n<p>McGraw read a story, maybe this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1809593\/how-a-tim-mcgraw-classic-led-to-blanco-browns-the-git-up\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">one<\/a>, about how the artist behind this year\u2019s infectious country line-dancing song \u201cThe Git Up\u201d discovered country music through McGraw\u2019s \u201cDon\u2019t Take the Girl.\u201d It was McGraw\u2019s first No. 1 song, and was released in 1994.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-vn6QdqxK3g?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-vn6QdqxK3g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhen I heard it I was like, \u2019Wow, this is a story \u2014 this is different from what I\u2019m used to hearing.\u2019 Before that I was hearing Donny Hathaway, Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye \u2014 I never heard that approach to music,\u201d Blanco had said of hearing the song at his aunt\u2019s house in rural Georgia. \u201cIt changed my perspective and broadened my senses. I could never get away from the storytelling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When McGraw heard that, and realized that their paths were finally going to cross in Australia, McGraw reached out.<\/p>\n<p>And then this happened:<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w8LD9_hW1iI?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w8LD9_hW1iI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>After McGraw posted their duet, Browwn replied with this: \u201cThis moment will forever change my life, just the way this song has. Still in disbelief and tears of joy\u2026Thank you for your magic!!!! No words could describe my feelings, I just wanna thank you for making a dream that I never knew could be reality come to my life!!! Wow wow wow.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\">Alison makes her living loving country music. She&#8217;s based in Chicago, but she&#8217;s always leaving her heart in Nashville.<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/alisonbonaguro\" target=\"_BLANK\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@alisonbonaguro<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1812996\/why-tim-mcgraw-and-blanco-brown-crossed-paths-backstage-in-oz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 16m ago Want to know the story behind the unlikely collaboration between Tim McGraw and Blanco \u201cThe Git Up\u201d Brown? It goes like this. McGraw read a story, maybe this one, about how the artist behind this year\u2019s infectious country line-dancing song \u201cThe Git Up\u201d discovered country music through McGraw\u2019s \u201cDon\u2019t Take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 23:32:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}