{"id":533121,"date":"2015-01-29T11:12:01","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T18:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/?p=533121"},"modified":"2015-01-29T11:12:01","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T18:12:01","slug":"news-tim-mcgraw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/articles\/news-tim-mcgraw\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWS: TIM MCGRAW"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center\">Tim McGraw to Step In for Glen Campbell at the Oscars<\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"article-sub-title\" style=\"text-align: center\">Country star will perform the ailing icon&#8217;s nominated song, &#8220;I&#8217;m Not Gonna Miss You&#8221;<\/h1>\n<div>Tim McGraw has some big shoes to fill on February 22nd. The country superstar has been tapped to perform Glen Campbell&#8217;s Oscar-nominated &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/videos\/glen-campbell-shares-poignant-last-music-video-im-not-gonna-miss-you-20141012\">I&#8217;m Not Gonna Miss You<\/a>&#8221; at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/news\/oscars-2015-boyhood-birdman-score-big-nominations-20150115\">87th annual Academy Awards<\/a>.<\/div>\n<aside class=\"related-article\">\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/news\/oscars-2015-common-lego-movie-glen-campbell-adam-levine-best-original-song-nominations-20150115\">Hear the Oscar Nominees for Best Song \u00bb <\/a><\/h4>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Campbell, a nominee for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/news\/oscars-2015-common-lego-movie-glen-campbell-adam-levine-best-original-song-nominations-20150115\">Best Original Song<\/a>, is unable to attend the Oscars, as his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/news\/country-icon-glen-campbell-moved-to-alzheimers-facility-20140421\">Alzheimer&#8217;s disease continues to progress<\/a>. &#8220;I&#8217;m Not Gonna Miss You&#8221; is the final song of the legendary entertainer&#8217;s 60-year career, written and recorded for his 2014 documentary<em>, Glen Campbell\u2026I&#8217;ll Be Me<\/em>, which just recently received a Critics&#8217; Choice nomination. (Watch the scene from the film featuring the song below.) The nominated track, co-written with Julian Raymond, is a bittersweet love song that gives a silver lining to the memory loss that comes with Alzheimer&#8217;s. Raymond <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/news\/glen-campbell-producer-reflects-on-singers-oscar-nomination-20150115#ixzz3QE00DhCF\">tells <em>Rolling Stone Country<\/em><\/a> his elation at the nomination is accompanied by sadness that Campbell isn&#8217;t able to comprehend the honor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a clich\u00e9 thing to say, but I&#8217;m just so happy to be nominated, for him and his family,&#8221; says the songwriter-producer. &#8220;I feel just so happy that this whole thing is creating a brand-new legacy for him and getting some of those great old songs heard. As we joke, he&#8217;s lived a thousand lifetimes. He&#8217;s amazing in so many ways.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Campbell&#8217;s family personally requested McGraw to perform on the icon&#8217;s behalf. &#8220;Glen was always a fan of his music and Tim is sure to bring great emotional depth to the performance,&#8221; his loved ones write in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>This won&#8217;t be McGraw&#8217;s first Oscar rodeo \u2014 he&#8217;s attended a handful of times to support films, including <em>The Blind Side,<\/em> but it will be his first time to perform at Hollywood&#8217;s biggest annual event. Coincidentally, his wife, Faith Hill, performed on the 2000 Academy Awards, filling in for an ailing Whitney Houston.<\/p>\n<p>The Academy Awards air live from Los Angeles on February 22nd at 7 p.m. ET on ABC. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv\/news\/neil-patrick-harris-will-host-2015-oscars-20141015\">Neil Patrick Harris will host<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim McGraw to Step In for Glen Campbell at the Oscars Country star will perform the ailing icon&#8217;s nominated song, &#8220;I&#8217;m Not Gonna Miss You&#8221; Tim McGraw has some big shoes to fill on February 22nd. The country superstar has been tapped to perform Glen Campbell&#8217;s Oscar-nominated &#8220;I&#8217;m Not Gonna Miss You&#8221; at the 87th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":533123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-533121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-articles"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 19:14:02","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":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}