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Go rest on that mountain7/12/2023 “I didn’t feel like the song, as a songwriter, buttoned up and ended and finished the story. “Not too long ago, about a year so ago, as I listened to that song, it always felt incomplete,” Gill shares. “Go Rest High on That Mountain has touched countless lives, but with the new, still-unrecorded third verse, the 64-year-old hopes to touch even more. But he didn’t know that 28 years later it was going to wind up having the impact that it’s had on people.” “Tony heard it and he says, ‘You got to record that song.’ I said, ‘Boy, it’s pretty sad, pretty tough.’ And he said, ‘No, you really need to.’ And that was so to me, because it was written about my brother’s passing. “I wasn’t even going to record it,” Gill recalls. After Gill finished it, it took some convincing from producer and label executive Tony Brown for Gill to record the emotional song. Ironically, “Go Rest High on That Mountain” came perilously close to not being heard, by anyone. I had no idea I was even going to do any of that.” You need to feed that melancholy thing that you’re going through. When you lose somebody that you love and you go, you want comfort. “And it carries more weight in that people went to that song when they really were hurting, when they’re struggling and going through the hardest part of their life, not the best part of their life. “When you look back at my life and my career being musical, that’ll be the one song that I’m known for,” Gill tells I Miss…90s Country Radio with Nick Hoffman on Apple Music Country. But the Country Music Hall of Fame member has a third verse, which has never been recorded, but he hints might happen, and soon. Gill began writing the song after Keith Whitley passed away, finishing it after the death of his own brother. The track went on to win CMA and Grammy awards and has since become one of Gill’s most popular songs.Vince Gill‘s “Go Rest High on That Mountain” has been sung at countless funerals over the years, including at Charlie Daniels’ last year. As he mourned the loss of his sibling, Gill wrote the song’s chorus and a second verse. The Country Music Hall of Famer revived the song four years later when his older brother Bob Gill died from a heart attack. “Go Rest High on That Mountain” was initially created in 1989 when Gill began to write the song after fellow country singer Keith Whitley died from alcohol poisoning. Vince Gill Emotionally Honours Wife Amy Grant On Stage After Bike Crash Left Her Unconscious For 10 Minutes Underwood moved Gill and the entire crowd to their feet, receiving quite the applaud. The song about “loss, faith and ultimate redemption,” as The Bootdescribed, means a lot to Gill. The “Blown Away” singer included Gill’s new final verse in her performance- a verse he introduced in 2019- causing the singer-songwriter to get teary-eyed. Carrie UnderwoodCMT Giants: Vince Gill, Stage, Nashville, USA – - Photo: AFF-USA/Shutterstock Underwood was among many of country’s biggest artists who took part in the television special “CMT Giants: Vince Gill”, honouring Gill’s remarkable achievements over the years.Ĭarrie Underwood Covers Stevie Nicks And Tom Petty Classic At Nashville Barĭuring the special episode, which aired Friday night, Underwood entered the stage at Belmont University’s Fisher Center for the Performing Arts in Nashville in a gorgeous light blue shimmery gown and belted out the lyrics as a single spotlight shined down on her. Carrie Underwood stunned while performing a beautiful rendition of Vince Gill’s “Go Rest High on That Mountain” that left the country singer feeling emotional.
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