Set This Circus Down

Set This Circus Down is the seventh album by country music singer Tim McGraw. Certified 3× Multi-Platinum by the RIAA for U.S. sales of three million copies, the album produced four singles for McGraw on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. All of these singles — "The Cowboy in Me", "Unbroken", "Angry All the Time" and "Grown Men Don't Cry" — reached number one on that chart. "Things Change" is a studio recording of a song which McGraw had previously recorded live; the live version reached #32 on the country charts in 2000 from unsolicited airplay. Another track from this album, "Telluride", reached #52, also without being officially released. This song was also recorded by Josh Gracin on his 2008 album We Weren't Crazy, from which it was released as a single. "Angel Boy" was made into a music video. "Angry All the Time" was originally recorded by its writer, Bruce Robison, on his 1998 album Wrapped.

Track listing

1. "The Cowboy in Me" (Al Anderson, Craig Wiseman, Jeffrey Steele) - 4:04
2. "Telluride" (Brett James, Troy Verges) - 3:49
3. "You Get Used to Somebody" (Steve Bogard, Tom Shapiro) - 3:58
4. "Unbroken" (Annie Roboff, Holly Lamar) - 4:00
5. "Things Change" (Chris Lindsey, Bill Luther, Aimee Mayo, Marv Green) - 3:20
6. "Angel Boy" (Danny Orton) - 5:11
7. "Forget About Us" (Mark Collie) - 4:09
8. "Take Me Away from Here" (Jeff Stevens, Steve Bogard) - 4:35
9. "Smilin'" (Lindsey, Luther, Mayo, Green) - 3:00
10. "Set This Circus Down" (Bill Luther, Josh Kear) - 3:31
11. "Angry All the Time" (Bruce Robison) - 4:30
12. "Let Me Love You" (Lindsey, Luther, Mayo, Green) - 4:31
13. "Grown Men Don't Cry" (Tom Douglas, Steve Seskin) - 3:56
14. "Why We Said Goodbye" (Douglas, Billy Kirsch) - 3:44

Chart performance

Album

Singles

All singles reached Number One on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart and all reached top 40 on the Hot 100 chart.

Personnel

• Jeff Babko – keyboards
• Larry Byrom – acoustic guitar
• Mike Elizonda – bass guitar
• Paul Franklin – steel guitar
• Byron Gallimore – baritone guitar
• Aubrey Haynie – fiddle
• Michael Henderson – baritone guitar
• Faith Hill – background vocals
• Michael Landau – electric guitar
• B. James Lowry – electric guitar
• Brent Mason – electric guitar
• Gene Miller – background vocals
• Val McCallum – electric guitar
• Steve Nathan – keyboards
• Chris Rodriguez – background vocals
• Peter M. Thomas – drums
• Biff Watson – electric guitar, acoustic guitar
• Lonnie Wilson – drums
• Glenn Worf – bass guitar
• Curtis Wright – background vocals
• Curtis Young – background vocals

Strings performed by the Nashville String Machine, under the conduction of Carl Gorodetzky and Rob Mathes.