[1] The tour reflected both the successful marriage of the two artists as well as their very different styles[2] and the dual directions country music was going in at the time.

[11] The Soul2Soul Tour was in support of their most recent albums at the time, McGraw's A Place In The Sun and Hill's mega-success Breathe.

The show featured a unique[1] 360 degree endstage that allowed for full arena capacity, with a catwalk[12] and raised podiums on either side of the stage and a riser from below for performer entrances.

[2] The couple's music was very different at this stage of their careers, as Hill was exploring pop, techno and programmed drums, and 1960s retro sounds, while McGraw stuck to his more mainstream country approach.

[1] CMT News wrote that "Go Your Own Way" represented "a clear-cut declaration of where country music finds itself today, aimed at Gen-Xers and baby boomers and drifting more into the pop realm than ever before.

[15][16] One newspaper mentioned "her face full of Revlon",[15] and indeed it was later reported that her makeup kit for the tour was a 300-pound case on seven wheels, designed specifically for her at $4,000 cost.