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VINCE GILL, ‘BREAD AND WATER’ — STORY BEHIND THE LYRICS

Posted by admincw on Jan 18, 2012 in Fanclub, News | 8 comments

Beville Darden – The Boot

Vince Gill’s latest album, ‘Guitar Slinger,’ is an emotional rollercoaster ride, mixing fun uptempos with tearjerking ballads, along with a few songs that tap into his darker side. All of the project’s tracks, however, have one main thing in common: they’re inspired by various people who have touched the country superstar’s life in one way or another.

‘Bread and Water’ is a poignant track about a seemingly homeless man who wanders into a mission looking for food but finding a whole lot more. The Country Music Hall of Famer sat down with The Boot to tell us how his brother Bob, who passed away in 1993, inspired the song.

BLESSED WITH SINGING

Posted by admincw on Oct 27, 2011 in News | Comments Off

Pop & Hiss – LA Times

Over his 30-plus year recording career, Vince Gill has proved himself a prolific and astute songwriter, a highly regarded guitarist and one of country music’s most award-laden singers. He’s landed multiple song-of-the-year honors from the Country Music Assn. and the Academy of Country Music, along with two Grammy Awards — among his overall Grammy total of 20 — for best country song for “I Still Believe in You” and “Go Rest High on That Mountain” in 1992 and 1995, respectively.

This week, the 54-year-old musician is releasing “Guitar Slinger,” his first studio album in five years. While he was in Los Angeles recently to host the annual Country Music Hall of Fame benefit concert, Calendar asked Gill, who also plays the Troubadour in West Hollywood on Nov. 16, to talk about how he writes songs, what characterizes his favorite songs by other writers and how the new album came together.

ROUGHSTOCK: ‘GUITAR SLINGER’ IS A GOOD OLD FASHIONED COUNTRY ALBUM

Posted by admincw on Oct 25, 2011 in News | 2 comments

Dan MacIntosh – Roughstock

Vince Gill’s Guitar Slinger is a good old fashioned country  album. (That’s a compliment, by the way). Its songs address a lot the  biggest questions in life, such as heaven, hell, sin, salvation and all  that sorta messy stuff. In the wrong hands, such subject matter might  come off preachy. In Gill’s capable guitar slinging hands, though, it’s  never less than beautifully touching.

There a few truly pitiful characters studied during this  thoughtful work. One poor soul named Billy Paul – in a song of the same  name – chronicles the life of a man who ends up committing murder, and  the narrator wonders why it all went so wrong. Then with “Bread and  Water,” Gill sings about the essentials of life through the story of a  homeless man. “Threaten Me With Heaven,” one of this album’s most  touching songs, speaks frankly about death and how the afterlife is not a  future to be feared. One of its four songwriters was Will Owsley, who  later committed suicide. One has to wonder if he was contemplating this  final act while he was writing the lyric. It’s simply chilling.

REVIEW: VINCE GILL SHOWCASES SONGWRITING STRENGTHS

Posted by admincw on Oct 25, 2011 in News | Comments Off

By MICHAEL McCALL – The Associated Press

The title of Vince Gill’s new album focuses on his instrumental skills. But  the music more intently highlights another talent: songwriting. On “Guitar  Slinger,” Gill concentrates on lyrics about friends and issues, turning out  stories that are sometimes entertaining and often touching.

Some draw on his sense of humor: The title is a roadhouse rocker inspired by  Gill’s catastrophic loss of musical equipment in Nashville’s 2010 flood. Others  confront tragedy: “Bread and Water” is based on the death of Gill’s older  brother, who struggled with daily existence after suffering a severe head  injury. “Billy Paul” questions why a close friend took such a deadly turn, while  “Buttermilk John” honors the late steel guitarist John Hughey, who worked with  Gill for many years.

VINCE GILL EXPLORES TRUTH AND FICTION IN NEW ALBUM

Posted by admincw on Oct 25, 2011 in News | Comments Off

By Vernell Hackett – Reuters

Vince Gill mixed a little truth with just enough fiction in writing the songs for his new album, “Guitar Slinger,” that hit record stores and websites on Monday marking his first CD in five years.

Gill chose topics as diverse as a murder-suicide, an out-of-the way motel and “True Love” — a song he co-wrote with his wife of 11 years, Christian singer Amy Grant.

“I think songs like ‘Bread and Water,’ which I could say is the truth about my (late) brother, or ‘Billy Paul,’ about a caddy at my golf club who killed his girlfriend and himself, have what I call a step aside from truth,” Gill said.