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They are almost always touching each other ("You're one hot mama," gushes McGraw as he picks imaginary lint off her knee) and playfully bickering. ("She's a neat freak," moans McGraw. Counters Hill: "Why can't he pick his clothes up?") But it is all in fun, like the sparring they will do on- stage during Soul2Soul II for a million fans. "Over a million," marvels Hill. "Do we still get excited by something like that? Oh, gosh, yeah."
The tour, their second as a couple, took two years to plan, in part because as the parents of three, "you run around like crazy," says Hill. Both took time to try acting too. Hill, whose last album, Fireflies, has sold more than two million copies, spent five months filming The Stepford Wives in 2003. And McGraw had a small part in 2004's Friday Night Lights. He steps into new territory twice in the family drama Flicka (due in October). He has his first starring role as a ranch dad trying to find a bigger world for his daughter, and after 17 years in the business, he recorded for the first time a song he co-wrote, a tune for the soundtrack called "My Little Girl." In the past he has stuck to performing, "because my songwriting sucks. But it's got to the point now that I just wanted to say something," he explains.
