![]() I understand how evolution works, how this business works, how it’s always worked. I don’t have anything but a cheerleader brain for young people. ![]() It is for you, and I’m cheering you on.’ I want these kids to live their dreams, want them to be musical, to do what’s in their hearts. But at the same time, I just want to go, ‘I’m not being critical, it’s just not for me. I think any time somebody is not nuts about what you do, it’s critical, and I get that. How can you not like this guy?” You may not be crazy about his music, and that’s fair, but it doesn’t need to be personal.Ĭhris Stapleton, Carrie Underwood to Sing Vince Gill's Songs for 'CMT Giants' Special You’ll meet some of these kids and you’ll think, “This is the greatest guy in the world. And it doesn’t have an ounce of criticism intended. The weird thing is if you make a comment like that, I think that the young generation takes it as criticism. I feel like it’s fair to have an opinion, it’s fair to like what you like. It is ironic though that its lyrical message is beating you about, but its musical message is nothing related to it at all. There’s no rule to how it has to be, how it should be. It always strays away and then comes back, strays away, comes back. In saying that, all I know is that historically, if you look at throughout its entirety, this has always been going on. I’ll do it with what I choose to do, but I don’t need to be the mouthpiece. Meaning you don’t want to be the policeman of country? But I think the statement, it borderlines on being that guy that I’m not crazy about either. ![]() “And what I long for, more than anything, is to hear how country it is.”ġ0 Best Things We Saw at Keith Urban and Vince Gill’s We’re All 4 the Hall 2014 “I feel inundated these days with music that’s telling me how country it is,” he said, his voice full of emotion. Yet Gill did extend a challenge to a country music industry bloated with rural clichés and tropes when accepting a career achievement award at the 2012 ACM Honors ceremony in Nashville. So I’m not ever going to be critical of a young person that doesn’t know history. But you take a young kid like Brett Eldredge or Kip Moore, guess who their mentors are? Tim McGraw and Toby Keith, and the biggest people from 15 years ago. It’s in our history and that’s great, and if you go find it and learn it, you’ll be better for it. And so 50 years ago what taught me how to play and sing, it’s gone. You have to look at a young person today and understand their influences were nothing like mine. ![]() “I’m too much of a musician to lay claim to what is and isn’t,” he says, reaching into his pocket to unwrap a peppermint candy. Wearing a baseball hat with a peace sign emblem and dressed in madras plaid shorts, a T-shirt and flip-flops, Gill makes himself comfortable on a couch in the Rolling Stone Country office. Two weeks earlier, however, Gill, a native Oklahoman who married pop-gospel singer Amy Grant in 2000, sounds like a bemused observer in the great debate over what is and isn’t country music. He always wanted to be a guitar player in a really good band.” “Vince is one of those guys that could have easily been a studio musician and actually he says that that’s what he always wanted to be. He’s a guitar player,” Sears tells Rolling Stone Country. “He’s not your usual superstar who knows three chords and has a capo. Later in the evening, the Time Jumpers’ de facto leader, fiddler Kenny Sears, will introduce Gill as the “resident superstar” of the group of moonlighting session players. The 100 Greatest Country Songs of All Time At just 57, he’s already been inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, won 18 Country Music Association Awards and holds the record for most Grammy Award wins - 20 - for a male country artist. Gill joined the Time Jumpers four years ago, adding one more qualifier to a remarkably full career as a solo artist, guitar ace, songwriter and producer of albums by Ashley Monroe and LeAnn Rimes. It’s a Monday night, and as is his custom every week, Gill is ambling onto a stage with 10 other musicians to play two sets of Western swing classics and originals for a regularly sold-out crowd at club 3rd and Lindsley. It’s Memorial Day in Nashville and Vince Gill isn’t enjoying the national holiday with a day off.
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