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| Released | April 20, 1993 | |||
| Recorded | 1991–1993 | |||
| Studio | Sixteenth Avenue Sound, Eleven-Eleven Sound Studios. Mesa Recording Studios and Sound Stage Studios (Nashville, TN). | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 30:22 | |||
| Label | Curb | |||
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Tim McGraw is the debut album by Americancountry music artistof the same name. It was released on April 20, 1993, byCurb Records. It includes the singles "What Room Was the Holiday In", "Welcome to the Club", "Two Steppin' Mind", and "Memory Lane", none of which reached the Top 40 on the country charts. This is the only studio album of McGraw's career not to achieve amusic recording sales certification or to enter theTop Country Albums charts.
The album's lead single, "What Room Was the Holiday In", was produced byDoug Johnson;[1] the rest of the album was produced byByron Gallimore (who has produced all of McGraw's subsequent work) andJames Stroud.
The tracks "Memory Lane" and "Tears in the Rain" were co-written byJoe Diffie, the former had been recorded byKeith Palmer on his debut album, while Diffie recorded his own version of "Tears in the Rain" for his 1995 albumLife's So Funny. "The Only Thing That I Have Left" had been recorded byGeorge Strait on his 1982Strait from the Heart album.
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| AllMusic |    [2] |
Brian Mansfield and Thom Jurek ofAllMusic said that the album was not memorable aside from three of its singles, but that it showed the "roots of [his] individuality".[3]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Welcome to the Club" |
| 2:54 |
| 2. | "Two Steppin' Mind" |
| 3:01 |
| 3. | "The Only Thing That I Have Left" | Clay Blaker | 3:23 |
| 4. | "You Can Take It With You (When You Go)" |
| 2:12 |
| 5. | "Ain't No Angels" |
| 3:06 |
| 6. | "Memory Lane" | 3:25 | |
| 7. | "Tears in the Rain" |
| 3:20 |
| 8. | "What She Left Behind" |
| 2:54 |
| 9. | "What Room Was the Holiday In" |
| 3:08 |
| 10. | "I Keep It Under My Hat" |
| 3:12 |
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| Year | Single | Peak positions |
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| 1991 | "What Room Was the Holiday In" | — |
| 1992 | "Welcome to the Club" | 47 |
| 1993 | "Memory Lane" | 60 |
| "Two Steppin' Mind" | 71 | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | ||
| Region | Date | Format(s) | Label | Ref. |
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| United States | April 20, 1993 | Curb |
