Tim McGraw, a free agent after win­ning a court bat­tle against his for­mer label, has now signed with Big Machine Records to a world­wide record­ing deal. “Many peo­ple know that I came to Nashville 23 years ago on a Grey­hound bus with noth­ing but a gui­tar,” said McGraw. “And 23 years to the day, on May 9th, I went back to the bus sta­tion and offi­cially signed this deal. It was a sig­nif­i­cant way for me to mark this new beginning.”