VINCE GILL’S 50 YEARS FROM HOME EP SERIES ANNOUNCED |
I Gave You Everything I Had, First EP of the Series |
NASHVILLE – October 10, 2025 - It's been 50 years since Vince Gill chose a path toward music and left his home in Oklahoma to launch his career -- a journey that's taken him to Kentucky then California and finally Nashville, and, as a touring artist, around the world. It has seen him find success as a member of bands such as Mountain Smoke, Bluegrass Alliance, Boone Creek, Sundance, Pure Prairie League, Rodney Crowell's Notorious Cherry Bombs, The Time Jumpers and, most recently, the Eagles, and as an iconic recording artist in his own right. Last week, Gill signed a lifetime deal with his longtime label MCA.
Gill is honoring this fifty year career milestone by curating a series of EPs to be released over the course of a year. Thematically titled 50 Years from Home, the first EP of the series is I Gave You Everything I Had, and will be released worldwide on October 17.
"I have this treasure trove of songs," Gill explains, "and I started wracking my brain about how I could find a way to really celebrate this music.”
|
His creative juices every bit as strong as they were fifty years ago, Gill has culled from over 100 songs he has written, either by himself or in collaboration with others, over the past few years. This is an endeavor unlike anything in his career up to this point.
All sole compositions by Gill, I Gave You Everything I Had contains six brand new songs as well as one recording from his award-winning catalog, in this case, “Go Rest High On That Mountain,” which includes a new third verse.
Each of the 50 Years From Home volumes have been meticulously selected by Gill to reflect a particular theme, idea, or aspect of his life. "I'm really trying to find songs that sit well with each other, that are cohesive," he explains, “and then something from my catalog that complements the other tracks.”
Gill has even taken part in the design of each EP cover by thoughtfully choosing an instrument from his personal collection to be featured. On I Gave You Everything I Had, he has chosen to use a photo of his 1942 Martin D-28 Herringbone guitar purchased in 1975 by selling a Martin given to him by his parents, and using his entire life savings, an important investment in himself at the onset of his career.
|
Photo credit: David McClister Download photo HERE
|
"The more I've done it, the more I've learned how to do it better -- how to be more patient, where not to waste my time, what to do and not to do, to be willing to edit myself and keep digging. Experience is experience; there is no shortcut. This is what comes from doing this for 50 years." VINCE GILL
|
Gill describes the songs on I Gave You Everything I Had as, "all very personal.” He continues, “I love the emotion of music; that's what I go to it for. It stirs something inside me that I can't describe. I just feel it, and the songs I do and the way I sing them and the way I play them, tries to convey those emotions."
Produced by Gill, the songs feature a cadre of musicians he's been working with, including pedal steel virtuoso Paul Franklin, fellow guitarists Tom Bukovac, Jedd Hughes and Jack Schneider, keyboardists John Jarvis and Gordon Mote, drummer/percussionist Fred Eltringham, on bass Jimmie Lee Sloas, with Gill's wife of 25 years, Amy Grant, and daughters Jenny Gill and Corrina Gill singing background vocals. The songs were recorded at Gill's The House studio.
Nostalgia, sentimentality, and mourning are the hallmarks of I Gave You Everything I Had. The title track and "Made Me" are unabashedly about Gill's journey in music, gentle, acoustic-laden paeans that reflect the joy and pride that came from the sweat equity of the past five decades. With "Her Heart" Gill honors Grant's kindness and welcoming spirit toward everyone who crosses her path. "I Hope Everybody Lives to Be 100," meanwhile, is a country flavored wish that Gill wrote shortly after John Prine passed away. The EP is interspersed with mortality. The aching "Benny's Song" is specifically about the morning Benny Garcia, Gill's oldest friend and longtime guitar tech, passed away, "When a Soldier Dies," is another tear-jerker that's from the viewpoint of the ones left behind. “Go Rest High On That Mountain” the extended version, closes out the EP.
"The more I've done it, the more I've learned how to do it better -- how to be more patient, where not to waste my time, what to do and not to do, to be willing to edit myself and keep digging. Experience is experience; there is no shortcut. This is what comes from doing this for 50 years."
|
TRACK LISTING
(For complete EP credits, download HERE)
"I Gave You Everything I Had" (Vince Gill)
"I Hope Everybody Lives To Be A Hundred" (Vince Gill)
"Her Heart" (Vince Gill)
"Made Me" (Vince Gill)
"Benny's Song" (Vince Gill)
"When A Soldier Dies" (Vince Gill)
"Go Rest High On That Mountain" * extended version (Vince Gill)
|
ABOUT VINCE GILL:
One of the most popular artists in modern country music, Vince Gill is famous for his top-notch songwriting, world-class guitar playing and warm, soaring tenor, all wrapped up in a quick and easy wit. Gill achieved his big breakthrough in 1990 with “When I Call Your Name,” which won both the Country Music Association’s (CMA) Single and Song of the Year awards as well as a Grammy for Best Country Vocal Performance, Male. In total, Gill has won 18 CMA Awards, 22 Grammy Awards, and 8 Academy of Country Music Awards. In 1991, Gill was invited to become a member of the Grand Ole Opry, and in 2007 was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. In 2012 he was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. A gifted songwriter, Gill’s compositions earned him entry into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2005 and was awarded the prestigious BMI Icon award in 2014. Throughout his career, he has released 21 albums, sold over 30 million albums, and charted 45 singles. In 2022, Gill was inducted into the Musician’s Hall of Fame. Always considering himself a musician above all else, Gill has over the years been a part of some iconic bands, including Pure Prairie League, The Notorious Cherry Bombs, and The Time Jumpers. In 2017, Gill was asked to join the Eagles on the road, and he continues to be a part of that historic band’s tour.
|
|
|
Manage your preferences | Opt Out using TrueRemove™
Got this as a forward? Sign up to receive our future emails.
View this email online.
|
P.O. Box 210588 | Nashville, TN 37221 US
|
|
|
This email was sent to .
To continue receiving our emails, add us to your address book.
|
|
|
|
|
