Faith Hill & Tim McGraw
Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. and Curb Records
July 11, 2007 — Faith Hill and Tim McGraw fell in love during their first tour in 1996. Now they bring their three daughters along on the road, and each gets her own dressing room.
The Washington Post reports that typically beneath the stage at one of Tim and Faith's concerts, you'll find a mini-village with his-and-her dressing rooms, band rooms, bathrooms, caterers and wardrobe rooms. The armada transporting Soul2Soul 2007 consists of 14 buses, 22 trucks and a staff of 120.
"It takes that amount of personnel to put together the staging and everything," Faith says. "You have to create a well-oiled machine in order to move such a massive set from city to city."
They've come a long way from the early days when Tim and his longtime band, the Dancehall Doctors, all traveled in the same van with a trailer attached.
"I have the same band, and we still have that van — my guitar player has it at his house — so those days are very fresh in our minds," Tim says. "We talk about them all the time. Darran [Smith] and I have been together the longest, almost 18 years. We look at each other sometimes, look around at the audience and we'll raise our shoulders — 'I don't know!' 'Cause we'll be thinking about the times when there were only 50 people in the club for days on end."
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