A Place in the Sun (Tim McGraw album)

A Place in the Sun
Studio album by Tim McGraw
Released	May 4, 1999
Recorded	Ocean Way, Nashville, Tennessee
Genre	Country
Length	54:04
Label	Curb
Producer	Byron Gallimore Tim McGraw James Stroud
Tim McGraw chronology
Everywhere (1997)Everywhere1997 A Place in the Sun (1999) Greatest Hits (2000)Greatest Hits2000

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A Place in the Sun is the fifth album by American country music artist Tim McGraw. It was released on May 4, 1999. "Please Remember Me" was nominated for Best Male Country Vocal Performance at the 2000 Grammy awards. "My Best Friend" was nominated in the same category the following year. The CD was originally available with a limited edition booklet that had two transparent sleeves inside. Subsequent releases have all the same information, though without the transparent pages.

This album produced the singles "Please Remember Me", "Something Like That", "My Best Friend", "My Next Thirty Years" and "Some Things Never Change"; "Please Remember Me" was originally recorded by Rodney Crowell on his 1995 album Jewel of the South, and was a #69 country hit for him that year. Except for the #7-peaking "Some Things Never Change", all the singles on this album reached number one on the Hot Country Songs charts; "Seventeen" and "Señorita Margarita" also reached the lower regions of that chart from unsolicited airplay.

Track listing

1. "The Trouble with Never" (Mark Nesler, Tony Martin) – 4:14
2. "Seventeen" (Chris Lindsey, Bill Luther, Aimee Mayo) – 3:18
3. "She'll Have You Back" (Deryl Dodd, Allen Chancey) – 3:25
4. "Somebody Must Be Prayin' for Me" (Frank Vinci, Kris Bergsnes) – 3:52
5. "My Best Friend" (Bill Luther, Aimee Mayo) – 4:39
6. "Señorita Margarita" (Bob DiPiero, George Teren) – 3:50
7. "Some Things Never Change" (Walt Aldridge, Brad Crisler) – 3:56
8. "You Don't Love Me Anymore" (Greg Barnhill, Kim Carnes) – 3:42
9. "Something Like That" (Rick Ferrell, Keith Follesé) – 3:03
10. "Please Remember Me" (Rodney Crowell, Will Jennings) – 4:55
11. "Carry On" (Mark Collie, Hillary Kanter, Even Stevens) – 3:22
12. "My Next Thirty Years" (Phil Vassar) – 3:37
13. "Eyes of a Woman" (Rory Michael Bourke, Steve Mandile) – 3:47
14. "A Place in the Sun" (Lindsey, Steve Dukes) – 4:18

• • "Please Remember Me (Pop Version)" – 4:30

• • Track 1 on Japanese version

Chart performance

Album

Chart (1999)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	1
U.S. Billboard 200	1
Canadian RPM Country Albums	2
Canadian RPM Top Albums	12

Singles

Year	Single	Peak chart positions
		US Country	US	CAN Country
1999	"Please Remember Me"	1	10	1
	"Something Like That"	1	28	1
	"My Best Friend"	1	29	1
2000	"Some Things Never Change"	7	58	—
	"My Next Thirty Years"	1	27	—

Personnel

• Greg Barnhill – background vocals
• Mike Brignardello – bass guitar
• Larry Byrom – acoustic guitar
• Kim Carnes – background vocals
• Dan Dugmore – steel guitar
• Glen Duncan – fiddle, mandolin
• Mike Durham – electric guitar
• Paul Franklin – steel guitar
• Aubrey Haynie – fiddle, mandolin
• Michael Landau – electric guitar
• Patty Loveless – background vocals on "Please Remember Me"
• B. James Lowry – electric guitar
• Brent Mason – electric guitar
• Tim McGraw – lead vocals
• The Nashville String Machine – string section
• Steve Nathan – keyboards
• Kim Parent – background vocals
• Chris Rodriguez – background vocals
• Biff Watson – acoustic guitar
• John D. Willis – electric guitar
• Lonnie Wilson – drums, drum loops, tambourine
• Glenn Worf – bass guitar
• Curtis Wright – background vocals
• Curtis Young – background vocals

External links

• A Place in the Sun at countrymusic.about.com

Preceded by Ruff Ryders Ryde or Die Vol. 1 by Various artists	Billboard 200 number-one album May 22–28, 1999	Succeeded by Ricky Martin by Ricky Martin
Preceded by Come on Over by Shania Twain	Top Country Albums number-one album May 22 – June 4, 1999	Succeeded by Come On Over by Shania Twain