“Everyone was (surprised),” she said emphatically.
— Tim McGraw once sang about all the things he planned to do later in life.
In “My Next 30 Years,” he vowed to cry a little less, laugh a little more, raise a little family and hang out with his wife.
That modest list didn’t include becoming a movie star, getting elected to public office or being inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame — but maybe it should have.
When contestants want to borrow professional gloss for their performances, backup singers Smith, Gibson and Kenya C.
Hathaway are ready to deliver.
Drummer Justin South, in a recent telephone interview from Norfolk, Va.
, said the songs were written over four desultory years in various places nationwide as the band congealed.
“It’s a nonstop pace, very speedily, and Def Jam does not play, that’s all I can tell you,” she joked of her record label. “We just keep going and going — it’s fun, we make sure that we have fun while we do it.