A few minutes after 10 a.m. Tuesday, Tim McGraw — wearing a light-red T-shirt, dark shorts and a ball cap with a big orange “E” (betcha it’s the logo for Ensworth Academy, the Nashville school his daughter attends) — stepped out of what had to be the world’s longest tour bus and walked 100 yards or so down the rusted U.S. Pipe and Wheland Foundry property.
He was looking at trucks, lined up like some motor pool cotillion: Fords, Chevys, a Dodge, all shiny clean. Tires taller than fourth-graders. Low riders so low you couldn’t fit a Sunday paper underneath.
McGraw — perhaps the biggest country star today — would stop, look and point, his assistants swirling around him like human moons, while he selected one truck and then another. It could mean only one thing.
Truck Yeah.
On Tuesday, country music came to Chattanooga as McGraw arrived in town to film a music video for — reportedly — his new song, “Truck Yeah.”