-Look at you guys here on the cover of "Billboard" here.
Legend of Live, right there. That´s --
[ Cheers and applause ] You´ve got this award that
they´ve given out only to given out only to Elton John
and Lionel Richie.
This is a giant honor from "Billboard."
-It was nice. Thank you, "Billboard." Thank you.
-Yeah, I mean, how many live shows -- how many --
you´ve been on tour for -- -My whole life.
[ Laughter ] -Is that what you really --
Is that -- do you remember -- -It feels like my whole life.
I´ve been on tour for -- gosh. -Is that where you guys met?
-I started 19, 20 years old, you know, with a Ford van
and a U-Haul trailer, you know, traveling all over the place
and playing music. -Yeah, and now doing stadiums.
-And some of those guys are still with me.
-Is that right? -Yeah. Some of those guys are
still with me. -Did you guys -- did you meet
on tour? No? -We did. We met on tour.
-No, no. -Well, actually we --
-Let´s back up. -Not the first -- Okay.
-Back up. -♫ Back up, back up ♫
-We met in 1994. The first time we met was in 1994 at a CRS,
which is Country Radio Seminar. -Look at you, by the way.
-I know, it´s like, we got this. -Like, "it was exactly
3:45 P.M." [ Laughter ]
-I remember -- -Everything.
-Very vividly. -Really?
-It was a New Faces show. We were backstage and we all
took a picture. A lot of new artists.
Clay Walker was in there. A few other artists.
And yeah, and that was the first time I met Faith,
and I had a mullet. [ Laughter ]
-That was so sexy. I mean, like yeah.
[ Cheers and applause ] -Why did it ever go away?
Why did it ever go away? -And the ugliest red jacket
you´ve ever seen in your life I had on.
-Both of us -- yeah. -And I looked at her and was
smitten right away. Yeah. -And do you remember falling
in love with him, too? Do you remember falling in love?
-No, she didn´t fall in love with me right away.
[ Laughter ] -It took some time.
You had to put some work in. -Took a lot of time,
are you kidding me? -Yeah, exactly.
-It wasn´t that bad. -Yeah, yeah. Really?
-It wasn´t that long. -But look, now you have
three beautiful daughters. -Yeah.
-You were telling me the funny story about
your eldest daughter, Gracie? -Gracie, yeah.
-When she went on her first date.
-Yeah, her first -- I was on the road working.
And they give me a call and they said, you know,
"Gracie´s going out on a date. Do you mind if she goes
before you meet the guy?" They said, "I met him.
"He´s a really nice guy. Everybody -- we´ve done
all the research. Everybody´s a really nice guy."
[ Laughter ] -Yeah, you gotta do that.
-Oh, heck, yeah. -We put our Secret Service guys
on it. They checked him out. Everything´s good.
And I said, "okay, but he´s gotta come --"
-Oh, my gosh. -They can go out tonight,
but I´ll be home tomorrow." So around noon, I want him
to come by the house, just so I can say hi to him
and look him in the eye and shake his hand.
-Oh, man, I can just imagine. -So I get home at like
2 in the morning. And I get up the next morning,
and we´re doing a barbecue. So I´m in the kitchen,
and I forget that he´s coming. So I have a white apron on
and a knife and I´m trimming meat up,
so I´ve got, like, chunks of meat all over this white apron.
-Blood everywhere. -Blood everywhere.
And the door rings -- the doorbell rings.
And I go and answer the door and there´s this kid
who was dating Gracie, standing there.
I´ve got a knife in my hand and a bloody apron on.
And it worked out really well. [ Laughter and applause ]
-You don´t mess. Don´t mess! -Right. That´s right.
-The Soul2Soul tour starts again this summer.
-Mm-hmm. -You wrapped the first leg
of the tour. This is your first tour, Faith, in 10 years?
-10 years. Since 2006, 2007 was the last time I was on the road.
Yeah, I´ve just been hanging out.
-Yeah, exactly. Yeah, right. Yeah, no. Please.
But I mean, you´ve probably obviously worked on this,
but is it odd to get back on the road and go,
"oh, I remember this routine." -It was -- it was frightening
at first because I had the pleasure of performing
with one of the greatest performers
in the business of music, period. Honest to God. He is.
[ Cheers and applause ]
Um, I was nervous at first. It had been a while. 10 years.
But then once I got up there, after a few shows,
I´m like, "bam." -You got it back.
-I love it. I love it! -I mean, you´re great at it.
Obviously you know what you´re doing.
-Aw! -What made you do an album
together, finally? -Well, gosh. Tim?
-Well, we wanted to do a -- we´ve wanted to do a record
a long time together. We´ve been married 21 years.
-You´ve done songs together, yeah.
-And we´ve done -- [ Cheers and applause ]
-Good for you guys. -And we´ve done a handful
of -- not quite as many songs as people would think
we´ve done together. We´ve done a handful of songs together.
And so this time around, when we decided we were going to do
a tour together, we thought, "we´re going to have to do
an album together." We want to an album --
maybe the only album we ever get to do together.
We both turned 50 this year, which was a cool year for us.
-Gosh, you look fantastic. [ Cheers and applause ]
-I love you guys.