Tim McGraw Was 'Seriously Contemplating' Quitting Music amid Health Issues and 'Figuring Out How to Walk Away' Rachel DeSantisOctober 29, 2025 at 11:51 PM 0 Christopher Polk/Billboard via Getty Tim McGraw at the 2025 iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas on Sept. 20, 2025.
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Rachel DeSantisOctober 29, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Tim McGraw said he "was seriously contemplating" leaving his music career due to a number of injuries
McGraw told the crowd he "didn't want to" leave music, but didn't think his health would get better
The star has recently undergone four back surgeries and a double knee replacement
Tim McGraw is opening up about the ways in which his recent health struggles have affected his career — and why he almost said goodbye to performing for good.
The "Something Like That" singer, 58, has undergone four back surgeries and a double knee replacement over the last few years. And during an Oct. 25 concert at the Yaamava' Theater in Highland, California, the country star revealed the toll his health woes have taken.
"After going through all of that for a couple of years and getting depressed over it and all those things, stuff not working right, this spring, before I had my final back surgery, things were getting really bad," McGraw told the crowd in a video shared by Fox News. "So I was seriously contemplating and figuring out how to walk away."
At that, the crowd booed, and the country star admitted that he "didn't want to" leave his career, but "didn't think that it was going to get better."
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Tim McGraw performing at the 2025 iHeartRadio Music Festival on Sept. 20, 2025 in Las Vegas.
"But it's gotten better," he said. "So during that process, I had this idea for a song that sort of dealt with facing age and facing all that stuff that comes along with it. So I called a good friend of mine, Tom Douglas, and we sat down and we wrote a song and I'll play it for you, if I can get through it."
McGraw went on to play "King Rodeo," a song he released as a live single in August about a past-his-prime rodeo man learning to embrace all he's been through.
"So the spotlight's faded, you moved a little past your prime," he sings on the track. "Don't let 'em make you jaded 'cause you can't turn back time/Tomorrow's like a woman you can't understand/Lady Luck's been good to you, so take her by the hand."
Per the video, McGraw told the crowd that he'd spoken about his surgeries because his knee replacement doctor — to whom he gave a special shoutout — was in attendance at the show.
The star also shouted out Dr. Nicholas Rose, whom he said had recently done hand surgery on McGraw's wife, Faith Hill.
"My wife has gone through quite a few surgeries. She's had five neck surgeries and hand surgery, but her hand surgeon Dr. Rose is here tonight," the singer said. "And then we've got some great nurses and staff that are here with them that took care of us for a long, long time. Give these guys a hand… The reason I wanted to tell that part is 'cause the doctors are here."
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Tim McGraw performing at the 2025 iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas on Sept. 20, 2025.
A source told PEOPLE in 2015 that Hill, 58, had undergone a procedure called anterior cervical discectomy and fusion, which is generally used to relieve pain from a herniated disc. The source also said the singer first had surgery on her neck in 2011, though it remains unclear when she had her three other neck surgeries and hand surgery.
McGraw, meanwhile, has been touring after dropping out of a July performance in order to recover from back surgery.
The "Live Like You Were Dying" singer opened up about his health on Tracy Lawrence's TL's Road House podcast in May, saying he was also dealing with a torn rotator cuff and a ruptured disc.
"All the things that are going on, there were times this year that I thought this might be it," he said. "This might be time to hang it up."
He added that he's changed his approach to working out to better accommodate his body's needs.
"I can't move quickly, there's no turning real quick to do something," he said. "Everything has to be very intentional; everything that I do has to be very methodical. I have to do cold plunges, I have to do infrared saunas. I have to do massages."
McGraw's latest album Standing Room Only came out in 2023, and he is currently on tour. He's set to play four nights at The Colosseum Theater at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas in December.
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