Chris Willman Music WriterSpirit Music Group has picked up the master recordings of three Tim McGraw albums, the publishing company announced Wednesday.
The albums being acquired all date back to McGraw’s first stint on the Big Machine label in the mid-2010s, and include the No.
1 country hits “Humble and Kind,” “Highway Don’t Care” and “Shotgun Rider.”Spirit, a global powerhouse in music publishing, acknowledged in its announcement that “partnerships encompassing master recordings are rare for a music publisher,” but noted that it had also done the same with portions of the catalogs of classic rocker T.
Rex and contemporary singer/songwriter Ingrid Michaelson.The masters bought by Spirit are for the albums “Two Lanes of Freedom” (2013),.
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