ACM AT THE VINCE GILL HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME

EMMYLOU HARRIS JOINING NOTORIOUS CHERRY BOMBS AT CHARITY CONCERT

Posted by admincw on Aug 3, 2012 in News | Comments Off

Emmylou Harris and guitarist Albert Lee will make guest appearances when Vince Gill, Rodney Crowell and other members of the Notorious Cherry Bombs reunite for an Aug. 21 concert to benefit the Rising Star Music Fund. The nonprofit organization provides grants and funding for children’s music programs throughout the U.S. The concert will also honor record executive Bob Mercer, who died in 2010. The Cherry Bombs formed in the early ’80s and served as a backing band for Crowell and his then-wife Rosanne Cash. The band lineup for the show at Nashville’s 3rd & Lindsley club will include keyboardist Tony Brown, drummer Eddie Bayers, bassist Michael Rhodes and steel guitarist Paul Franklin.

AFTER THE NAME WAS CALLED, GILL AMASSED RUN OF HITS

Posted by admincw on Jul 7, 2011 in News | Comments Off

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.

VINCE GILL WILL RECEIVE STAR ON THE HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME IN 2012

Posted by admincw on Jun 22, 2011 in News | Comments Off

TWO-TIME HALL OF FAMER JOINS JENNIFER ANISTON, RICHARD BURTON, HEART AND HAL DAVID ON LIST OF 2012 INDUCTEES

NASHVILLE, TN — Next year, country music superstar Vince Gill will add a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame to his list of honors that includes inductions into the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.

The Walk of Fame honorees for 2012 include actors Jennifer Aniston, Richard Burton, Kate Winslet, Scarlett Johansson, Jennifer Lopez and Adam West, music legends Barry White, Hal David and David Foster, the band Heart and cartoonist Matt Groening.

This will be his family’s second star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. His wife, singer/ songwriter/author Amy Grant, received a star in 2006.

Gill moved to Los Angeles when he was 19 and lived there from 1976 until 1983. “It was one of the best times in my life,” he says. “I have a great fondness for it.

PICKIN’ ON NASHVILLE

Posted by admincw on Jan 26, 2011 in News | Comments Off

By William Michael Smith – Houston Press

Vince Gill centers himself through bluegrass and digs Miranda Lambert.

One of the great tenor voices in country music history, Vince Gill has a staggering list of accomplishments: 20 Grammys, 18 Country Music Association awards – including two for Entertainer of the Year and five for Best Male Vocalist – 40 charting singles, and membership in the Country Music Hall of Fame.

Married to Christian pop singer Amy Grant, Gill devotes much of his time these days to various charities. But on Monday nights, he fronts a little Western swing band at Nashville’s Station Inn “just for fun.”

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