By John P. McLaughlin, Special to The Province
By the latter 1980s Vince Gill had a crazy busy life but somehow, thus far, big time success had eluded him. He was 25 and one of Nashville’s most in-demand session players and singers, he was playing in Emmylou Harris’ band, he had a daughter with Sweethearts of the Rodeo’s Janis Oliver and had released a couple of albums on Buddha Records.
He was charting but nowhere near like contemporaries George Strait, Alabama or The Judds. Among the many projects Gill had been involved with over the years was Rodney Crowell’s country supergroup the Notorious Cherry Bombs and when the band’s keyboard player, Tony Brown, wound up on the production staff at MCA Records years later, he invited Gill over.
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