CURRENT SINGLE – “7500 OBO”
Tim McGraw grew up riding horses, so it’s not surprising he looks right at home on a horse in the Yellowstone TV spinoff, 1883. However, Tim says, “Being on the wagon was something that was really intense and really took a lot of work. And Faith (Hill) spends the most time drivin’ the wagon during the show, so she spent a lot of time doing that to where she’s pretty expert at it now. I mean, that’s a harder deal than people think it is to drive a wagon.”
1883 is the prequel to Yellowstone, which follows the story of the Dutton’s long, hard wagon train trek west to settle on the land that would eventually become Yellowstone Ranch. Tim points out that driving a wagon back in those days was quite grueling and difficult. “Those things can get really serious really quickly, especially when crossing the river,” he says. “It’s just so treacherous and so dangerous. I mean, you never knew where the holes were in the river. You never knew how deep it was.”
Even when Tim was just riding his horse alongside the wagon in the show, he says, “Just about every scene I shot with my horse he was trying to throw me in the middle of the river. I had one scene where my horse is raring up. Its hooves are slashing in the air and my hat falls, I catch it and put it back on. It shows the chaos and the danger and the precarious situation that everybody was in.”
You can catch Tim McGraw and Faith Hill starring in 1883 every Sunday night on Paramount+.
Tim McGraw – horses and wagons :39
“I mean, I grew up riding horses but being on the wagon was something that was really intense and really took a lot of work. And Faith spends the most time drivin’ the wagon during the show, so she spent a lot of time doing that to where she’s pretty expert at it now. I mean, that’s a harder deal than people think it is to drive a wagon. Those things can get really serious really quickly, especially when crossing the river. It’s just so treacherous and so dangerous. I mean, you never knew where the holes were in the river. You never knew how deep it was. Just about every scene I shot with my horse he was trying to throw me in the middle of the river. I had one scene where my horse is raring up. Its hooves are slashing in the air in my hat falls, I catch it and put it back on. It shows the chaos and the danger and the precarious situation that everybody was in.”