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Listen: Tim McGraw Releases ‘I Called Mama’ In Time For Mother’s Day

Tim McGraw released his brand new track “I Called Mama” just in time for Mother’s Day on Sunday (5/10). Tim told us, “When it was sent to me I fell…

Listen: Tim McGraw Releases 'I Called Mama' In Time For Mother's Day
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Tim McGraw released his brand new track "I Called Mama" just in time for Mother's Day on Sunday (5/10).

Tim told us, "When it was sent to me I fell in love with it right away, certainly because of what it says on a personal level about specifically about calling your mom and everything that it said. It made a lot of sense to me."

He added, "But then when all the upheaval in the world came along, it really started making more and more sense that this song really meant a different thing. In a lot of ways, it carried weight along with it as you listened to it and you think about the personal level. But perhaps something is sort of existential in a way. That speaks to things that are going on outside of what this song is saying, and to have a personal song is something that's big. When you look at it from a different perspective, when the world changed it, it was hard to ignore."

The video for the song will premiere today (5/8) at 12:30 ET.

The song marks McGraw’s first new music since returning to Big Machine Records earlier this year.

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.