VINCE GILL: HE’S COUNTRY MUSIC’S MVP

Posted by admincw on Nov 4, 2011 in News | 2 comments

Veteran Singer-Songwriter Brings His New Guitar Slinger to Town

You only have to go back in recent history to the 1970s, when a young Vince Gill was a journeyman instrumentalist in such bluegrass bands as Mountain Smoke, Boone Creek and the group Byron Berline & Sundance, to catch a glimpse of the promise of the impact the young Oklahoman would one day have on the world of country music. He learned his chops on the road with such hustling groups and later as a member of the Eagle-esque group Pure Prairie League and Rodney Crowell’s ace road band the Cherry Bombs.

I think that today Gill is overwhelmingly country music’s most valuable player. In the overall scheme of things — especially considering the many roles he has played in the music — it would be hard to name anyone else more important to the music. As an artist, entertainer, songwriter, musician, sideman, show host, mentor to young artists and man-about-town Belmont University basketball fan.

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.

VINCE GILL NO LONGER HOLDING BACK

Posted by admincw on Sep 9, 2011 in News | Comments Off

Hall of Fame country star free to explore styles
Sarah Rodman – Boston.com

Vince Gill, famously, loves to play golf. So it’s not hard to imagine that one of the youngest-ever inductees into the Country Music Hall of Fame might hit the links and let himself go a little.

But that isn’t Gill’s style. In fact, that 2007 accolade spurred the justly acclaimed country singer-songwriter-guitarist to let himself go in another way: creatively.

“Some of my greatest heroes are songwriters, and so with getting inducted into the Hall of Fame, I feel motivated beyond even my expectations,’’ said Gill recently, on the phone from the home he shares in Nashville with his wife, Christian-pop singer Amy Grant, and their children. “I feel like ‘OK, they’ve [given me] that, now go earn it.’ ’’

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