- These Days (Vince Gill album)
Infobox Album |
Name = These Days
Type = box
Artist =Vince Gill
Released =October 17 ,2006
Recorded =
Genre = Country
Length = 2:44:37
Label =MCA Nashville
Producer = Vince Gill
John Hobbs
Justin Niebank
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ipxuak8kdm3v~T1 link]
Last album = "Next Big Thing "
(2003)
This album = "These Days"
(2006)
Next album = TBD"These Days" is a 2006
box set by country artistVince Gill . Consisting of 43 original songs spanning four discs, the album displays the range of Gill’s lyrical and musical styles, ranging from traditional country and bluegrass tojazz and rock. It won the Best Country Album award at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards.History
To accompany him on this undertaking, Gill turned both to artists he knew and had worked with before and to those whose music he admired froma distance. "I never try to fill up my records with famous people," Gill says. "I try to fill them up with the most talented people I can find on the face of the earth." By the time the project was completed, that group included
Sheryl Crow ,Bonnie Raitt ,Diana Krall ,Rodney Crowell ,Patty Loveless ,Phil Everly , theDel McCoury Band ,Alison Krauss ,Emmylou Harris , John Anderson,Lee Ann Womack ,Jenny Gill ,Amy Grant ,LeAnn Rimes ,Gretchen Wilson ,Guy Clark ,Trisha Yearwood ,Bekka Bramlett , Michael McDonald, steel-guitaristBuddy Emmons and many other musical standouts.Initially, Gill planned to pare down the songs he’d recorded to a single album. Then, in one of the studios he used, he spotted some Beatles memorabilia and recalled that the Fab Four had routinely released multiple albums within the same year.
Gill took the idea to Luke Lewis, Universal Music Group Nashville Co-Chairman, who totally supported his notion of multiple releases. In fact, Lewis came up with an even more radical strategy: he told Vince to go and record more songs that explore his passion for acoustic sounds and release a 4-CD set. And that’s exactly what happened.
The album debuted on the U.S.
Billboard 200 at number 17, with 42,000 copies sold in its first week. [Katie Hasty, [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/search/google/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003314423 "Diddy Scores First No. 1 Album In Nine Years"] , Billboard.com, October 25, 2006.] This was also the album's peak position on the chart. [ [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/retrieve_chart_history.do?model.chartFormatGroupName=Albums&model.vnuArtistId=64067&model.vnuAlbumId=796714 Artist chart history for Vince Gill (albums)] , Billboard.com.]ingles
Three singles were released from this album, of which two were duets. The first single, "The Reason Why" (featuring
Alison Krauss ) reached #28 on theHot Country Songs charts; following it was "What You Give Away", which featuredSheryl Crow and peaked at #43. The third single, "How Lonely Looks", failed to chart.Track listing
"Workin' on a Big Chill"
"The Rockin' Record"
#"Workin’ on a Big Chill"
#"Love’s Standin’"
#"Cowboy Up" (featuringGretchen Wilson )
#"Sweet Thing"
#"Bet It All on You"
#"Nothin’ for a Broken Heart" (Duet w/Rodney Crowell )
#"Son of a Ramblin’ Man" (featuringDel McCoury Band )
#"Smilin’ Song" (featuring Michael McDonald)
#"The Rhythm of the Pourin’ Rain" (featuringBekka Bramlett )
#"Nothin’ Left to Say""The Reason Why"
"The Groovy Record"
#"What You Don't Say" (with
LeAnn Rimes )
#"The Reason Why" (withAlison Krauss )
#"The Rock of Your Love" (withBonnie Raitt )
#"What You Give Away" (withSheryl Crow )
#"Faint of Heart" (withDiana Krall )
#"Time to Carry On" (withJenny Gill )
#"No Easy Way"
#"This Memory of You" (withTrisha Yearwood )
#"How Lonely Looks"
#"Tell Me One More Time About Jesus" (withAmy Grant )
#"Everything and Nothing" (withKatrina Elam )
#"Which Way Will You Go"
#"These Days""Some Things Never Get Old"
"The Country and Western Record"
#"This New Heartache"
#"The Only Love"
#"Out of My Mind" (featuringPatty Loveless )
#"The Sight of Me Without You"
#"I Can’t Let Go" (featuringAlison Krauss &Dan Tyminski )
#"Don’t Pretend with Me"
#"Some Things Never Get Old" (featuringEmmylou Harris )
#"Sweet Little Corrina" (featuringPhil Everly )
#"If I Can Make Mississippi" (featuringLee Ann Womack )
#"Take This Country Back" (Duet w/John Anderson)"Little Brother"
"The Acoustic Record"
#"All Prayed Up"
#"Cold Gray Light of Gone" (featuring The Del McCoury Band)
#"A River Like You" (featuring Jenny Gill)
#"Ace Up Your Pretty Sleeve"
#"Molly Brown"
#"Girl" (Guest Vocalist: Rebecca Lynn Howard)
#"Give Me the Highway" (featuring The Del McCoury Band)
#"Sweet Augusta Darlin’"
#"Little Brother"
#"Almost Home" (Duet w/Guy Clark)References
* [http://www.smartchoicemusic.com/store/These-Days-4-CD-Set-Vince-Gill-pr-644.html UK release information and artwork]
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