Tim McGraw's Epic Battle with Curb Records

0:00It's April 29th, music news today starts now, AI powered and ready to play, I'm Cory with the story. Tim McGraw and his old label Curb Records went head-to-head in court back in 2011 over a nasty contract dispute. Curb kicked it off by suing him for breach, saying he dropped his emotional traffic album way too early, breaking a rule that albums had to be spaced. At least 18 months apart, McGraw fired back that delivering it wrapped up his obligations. He countersued hard, accusing Curb of trapping him in involuntary servitude by dragging out his commitments enforcing seven unwanted greatest hits. Packages just distressed the deal. Those compilations meant he had to wait another 18 months each time before new music, even though he never signed off on them. Fans in the industry washed close as McGraw pushed for freedom and a Tennessee judge stepped in that November, ruling he could record with someone. Else, while the fight dragged on. It opened the door for him to ink, a fresh deal with big machine records right around

1:02May of that year. Curb wasn't done, they claimed in April 2013 that his new album Two Lanes of Freedom belonged to them since he was supposedly still locked in. But an appeals court backed the earlier decision in September 2012 and the U.S. Supreme Court shut the door in February 2013. A district court judge finally killed the case for good, that August, letting McGraw roll free with his new path and leaving Curb in the dust on this.