Tim McGraw shows up at #1 party with a clean shaven look!
"These are the things that happen to somebody else," songwriter Tim Nichols said as he accepted another torrent of trophies for "Live Like You Were Dying," the durable Tim McGraw hit he co-wrote with Craig Wiseman. Nichols expressed his sense of wonder to a crowd of well-wishers who had assembled Thursday (Dec. 9) for a celebration at BMI's headquarters in Nashville. Two days earlier, BMI's competing performance rights society, ASCAP, had also thrown a party for the song. McGraw showed up for both. Nichols told the crowd that every songwriter has an ideal of how his songs should be performed and that that ideal was met when he watched McGraw sing "Live Like You Were Dying" on the Academy of Country Music awards show this past spring. "Tim's performance of that song was my idea of perfection," he said. "It was the sweetest moment I've had in the music business." Then, turning to McGraw, who stood beside him on a makeshift stage, Nichols added, "What you brought to this song I don't think anyone else could have delivered." As a gesture of gratitude, he presented silver Tiffany dog tags -- inscribed with "LLYWD" on one side and the recipient's initials on the other -- to McGraw and his co-producer and band member, Darran Smith.

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