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Tim McGraw and Faith Hill: Love and Industry

James Hunter, The Village Voice, 25 May 1999

COUNTRY MUSIC Nashville is a town of handlers, of purportedly insightful managers and publicists and producers and record company presidents. In 1993, when Tim McGraw was selling millions of copies of a garish down-home dance curiosity entitled 'Indian Outlaw' and Faith Hill was making a name for herself with a partially blank, partially cute cover of Janis Joplin's 'Piece of My Heart', she had handlers and he didn't. McGraw's sole blue-chip business connection was James Stroud, the exceedingly professional, sometimes alarmingly prolific producer who now heads up the Nashville wing of Dreamworks.

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