Thought you all might like to share in this article that came out today....

http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/musi...-gill07.article


The second to the last paragraph says:

"The show's highlight came in an unusual turn. After a fan persistently shouted a request for it, Gill played a solo acoustic version of "Colder Than Winter," a post-breakup ballad that he recorded in 1984. His vocal performance and emotional investment were noticeably more intense in this rarely performed song."


We were really close and nearly dead center stage, so I figured I would just stand up at some point during the show and request the one song I really really wanted Vince to sing----Colder Than Winter. I figured my fear of yelling out things in crowds could be overcome with a few glasses of wine. I under-estimated my fear....I found out that there is no amount of liquid courage I could drink to overcome that.

So I wrote the song down on a scrap piece of paper. The guy on my right, he told me to wad it up and try to hit Vince's guitar in the middle of a song, that he would surely notice that. Now I was simply paralized holding this note. The guy on my left, my husband, he grabbed the note and walked it up to the stage. I don't think Vince ever noticed, and besides, the liquid courage made my handwriting somewhat illegible.

I could not do it, I could not make a sound. So the yin to my yang, my husband, he became my voice. Only he would not stop. Yes, he was the persistent fan, the one who kept shouting out "Colder Than Winter Vince" up until the point when I think Vince told him he was gonna chicken fight him and kick dust in his mouth, just please stop yelling at him. Vince said he'd see if he could remember that 26 year old song.....

Vince played a lot of stuff and I was having a great time. I told my hubby, when I could tell he was gonna yell that song out one more time, that it was okay if Vince didn't sing it, just let it be, the man heard you already.

And then Vince sang The Key of Life, the song I heard him do before when I was dragged to a country show and I didn't know who Vince Gill was, the song I listened to and understood because I too had lost my daddy years before, and I loved my daddy so and knew the pain of losing him, and here this man sang about this too....I was a bonded fan for life at that moment. And next he sang Colder Than Winter. The guy on my right, the one I barely knew, I grabbed his arm and told him "This is gonna be AWESOME!"......and it was awesome. It was the best I've ever heard him sing of that song....well, that is of the two old recorded versions I have heard. I did not think it could get any better than that...but I was wrong again and it did get better....because the next song he sang was the one I found in the cd player of my Mom's car when she was comatose in hospice, at the darkest of my moments, when I was full of self-loathing and doubt, a song I am convinced my Mom somehow left there for me to find to give me comfort in despair.....he sang Go Rest High on That Mountain. There was never a sweeter place in which to sandwich Colder Than Winter.

He did a few more songs, and the band finished and exited after Liza Jane....we all rushed the stage and yelled for them to come back....they did and we all sang together "What You Give Away". I saw a lot of smiles in the band at that time....it was a really good show. It was awesome.



And I was so stoked afterwards, that I was the one the next day who insisted we go on a barnstorming bi-plane ride----the kind you wear goggles and a leather helmet for....It was awesome too! I don't know how I just threw away that awful fear of heights I had.....certainly the last place I thought I would be. I also suggested we try skydiving......

Great review. Glad he sang the song for you.

Yeah, I am so glad he did too. I don't think I would have ever fessed up that that was my husband being the pesky fan, except that the critic in the Sun Times said that that was the highlight of the show...Vince singing Colder Than Winter. I for sure knew it was MY highlight, I just did not know it would be THE highlight!

WOW!! Love that story, Dawn.

Thanks for sharing that Dawn.Always enjoy your posts.Also love Colder Than Winter.

Glad to see this pulled up again. Fun remembering the concert....and laughing at my husband right now who shouted that song title out for me and he didn't even know what the song was. Lovin' that I got to hear Vince sing it in person!

Looking forward to Oct.19th.Mesa,Az. concert.Hope to get Vince to sing this song.

[quote name='Anna Leighton' date='Sep 19 2010, 08:00 AM' post='26603']
Looking forward to Oct.19th.Mesa,Az. concert.Hope to get Vince to sing this song.

Oh I hope you do!

I am happy that i get to meet him in Las Vegas Thank you fan club i know its going to be a blast

That is excellent Dawn, so glad Vince sang it for you!

Yeah, kinda like a dream come true.

Dawn, I felt your excitement girl. Sounds like you had a blast and Vince does kind of grow on you all of a sudden. He has that addicting personality where you just want to go up and hug him without even knowing him. He will always be the best singer, songwriter, and player to me, ever.

Debbie:

We do all know him. It's just taking him a while for him to get know all of us!