{"id":19103,"date":"2019-10-06T16:07:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T22:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1812800"},"modified":"2019-10-06T16:07:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T22:07:08","slug":"how-a-cmt-tour-sparked-tim-and-faiths-romance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/how-a-cmt-tour-sparked-tim-and-faiths-romance\/","title":{"rendered":"How a CMT Tour Sparked Tim and Faith\u2019s Romance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:682822?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\">by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/morrise\/\" title=\"Posts by Edward Morris\" rel=\"author\">Edward Morris<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\">31m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>With a truckload of confetti and all the noise-makers legally available in an open-carry state, we herewith bestow our hurrahs on Tim McGraw and Faith Hill on this, their 23rd wedding anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>When they tied the knot on October 6, 1996, Tim was just coming off his two-week-at-No. 1 hit, \u201cShe Never Lets It Go to Her Heart,\u201d and Faith was on the verge of releasing \u201cI Can\u2019t Do That Anymore,\u201d which would eventually peak at No. 8.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B3RxqG3AK7l\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apart from the usual fanzine stuff and tabloid chatter, their union would produce three daughters \u2014 Gracie, Maggie and Audrey \u2014 and such duet hits as \u201cI Need You, \u201cIt\u2019s Your Love,\u201d \u201cJust to Hear You Say That You Love Me,\u201d \u201cAngry All the Time\u201d and \u201cThe Rest of Our Life.\u201d And it would see each of them bloom as movie actors.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps forgotten as the ages roll on was CMT\u2019s part in sparking this superstar romance. I was at the Country Music Association offices in March 1996 when the two budding stars announced that CMT was sponsoring their Spontaneous Combustion Tour, their first circuit together. At the time, they were not considered an \u201citem,\u201d but they were certainly flirtatious during the press conference.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B3R8o83HtzD\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not realizing the romantic importance of what I was witnessing, here\u2019s the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nashvillescene.com\/arts-culture\/article\/13000422\/making-the-rounds\">just-facts story<\/a> I wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Now you know how it all began.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2AJ4i4S_fP8?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2AJ4i4S_fP8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\">Edward Morris is a veteran of country music journalism. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee, and is a frequent contributor to CMT.com.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1812800\/how-a-cmt-tour-sparked-tim-and-faiths-romance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Edward Morris 31m ago With a truckload of confetti and all the noise-makers legally available in an open-carry state, we herewith bestow our hurrahs on Tim McGraw and Faith Hill on this, their 23rd wedding anniversary. When they tied the knot on October 6, 1996, Tim was just coming off his two-week-at-No. 1 hit, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19103","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 22:13:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}