Vince Gill
Vince Gill
Vincent Grant "Vince" Gillis an American country singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman to the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s and as a solo artist beginning in 1983, where his talents as a vocalist and musician have placed him in high demand as a guest vocalist and a duet partner...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth12 April 1957
CityNorman, OK
CountryUnited States of America
It will set my record back a ways, but you better believe I'm going.
This record for the first time - feels like a record that really represents my whole entire life and instead of just a period of my life. And it is really kind of eye opening and it makes me feel really good to hear this record and hear all the years.
Whether I'm making my own record, or playing a guitar part, I want what I do to have an impact.
It is not that I don't like contemporary country music because I do. I love it. I have recorded a lot and have had great success recording records that have not been very traditional country records.
This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.
It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.
I made records in the past that are as traditional as any other country records that have been made, but at the same time the records have a contemporary slant on it too.
It's so hard to defeat perceptions. I feel like whenever you have the opportunity, you take it and show people what it is that you do.
The biggest disservice you can do to an instrument is to lock it away. Collectors will buy these instruments and put them in glass cases. They never get played and they lose their soul.
Your talent level, as the years go by, you know, you're going to lose a little bit of what you used to be able to do, like an athlete.
My Dad says I've made a name for myself and now I can pull back and appreciate what I do instead of striving to get to my next gig.
Musicians know that this area has been an amazing hotbed for singers and players.
They're doing fine whether I'm doing it or not. Maybe it doesn't have as many wisecracks.
That's the beauty of this mandolin. It's the Holy Grail. Most musicians think it's in the New Testament. And it ought to be.