Religion Hill is Tim McGraw’s sort of rain.
The couple has been collectively 29 years, and now the nation singer, 58, is trying again at when he first met his spouse in 1994.
“I’ve been lucky. I’ve been very fortunate. First off, meeting my wife saved my life. I was a wild man,” McGraw gushed on Tracy Lawrence’s “Road House” podcast. “I was having fun.”
The pair — who shares daughters Gracie, 27, Maggie, 26, and Audrey, 23 — first began relationship whereas on tour earlier than tying the knot in 1996.
“She turned my life around. I couldn’t have found a better woman. Not only beautiful and talented, but just a good, good person. And then having our daughters,” McGraw stated of Hill, 57. “It’s life-changing. They make you a better person, and they certainly calm the demons in you.”
The Grammy winner expressed that being a dad “changed everything about my life.”
“It changed my perspective. It changed the way I thought about what my future would be,” confessed McGraw. “It certainly took me out of myself.”
One a part of his life that McGraw holds closest is his “tours with Faith.”
“The Soul2Soul tours with Faith, for a couple of reasons, because it’s rare that people get to do that in this business, that a husband and wife get to go on tour at the pinnacle of their careers and get to do stuff together,” he defined.
Their newest tour wrapped in 2018, however the duo nonetheless carry out collectively. (Additionally they just lately starred collectively on the Paramount+ Western sequence “1883,” a prequel to “Yellowstone.”)
“More importantly,” McGraw said, “she makes me a better artist every time I have to sing with her. Because to me, I think Faith, when you listen to her music and you listen to her albums, I think she is probably one of the best singers in the world.”
“She just really has such a soulful voice, and her musical taste is just so incredible,” he added.
The “Indian Outlaw” artist has been sober since 2008, and has been vocal about Hill’s assist.
“She’s always been my rock. She’s my rock in everything that I do. I don’t think I could stand up straight without leaning on her in everything that I do,” McGraw advised Yahoo Leisure in 2023, whereas including there have been tough moments.
“It is not a linear path,” he admitted. “There’s setbacks… there’s times you move forward and do great, and there’s times you set back. And that’ll probably be a process throughout the rest of my life and something that I have to be diligent about … really continue to work at.”
McGraw additionally revealed which tune from his catalog is his favourite.
“Oh, ‘It’s Your Love,’ because it was the very first song that Faith and I ever did together,” he advised the outlet.
“We were very early in our relationship, and it was just something that really just brought us together in a way that I don’t know what else could have,” McGraw reminisced. “And then I remember shooting the video. … Faith was pregnant with Gracie. That was just such a special time and a special moment, the beginning of a long relationship. I always look back on that as something that not only changed my musical world but changed my life.”
“It’s Your Love” went on to win 4 Academy of Nation Music Awards in 1997 — for finest single, finest tune, finest video and for vocal occasion of the yr.
