EP – N° 7
About The EP & Guitar:
NOBODY HELD HER LIKE ME
Vince Gill has worn his soul on his sleeve throughout his more than five decades as a recording artist. But he displays a proverbial heart full of soul on Nobody Held Her Like Me, the seventh volume in his monthly 50 Years From Home EP series.
“I love soul music,” Gill explains. “I’ve loved the soulful side of music forever, whether it’s Ray Charles or Bruno Mars. George Jones was as soulful a singer as anybody who ever lived. For Gill, it also began with the blues aspect of Rhythm & Blues. “I heard a lot of blues music from my big brother,” he says. “I would hear Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, people like that. To me, in some ways, it’s all blues. I’m just drawn to it.”
As he’s done on the preceding EPs, Gill caps Nobody Held Her Like Me with one of his previous hits — this time “Whenever You Come Around,” which hit No. 2 on the Billboard Country charts as the first single from his When Love Finds You album in 1994.
Like its 50 Years From Home predecessors, Nobody Held Her Like Me was produced by Gill at his home studio near Nashville, with engineers Justin Niebank and Matt Rausch and a core group of players that, in addition to Jarvis and Mote, includes guitarists Tom Bukovac and Jedd Hughes, bassist Jimmie Lee Sloas, pedal steel hero Paul Franklin, and drummer Fred Eltringham.
Tracklist:
- “Nobody Held Her Like Me” (Vince Gill, Joe Glaser, Jimmy Nalls)
- “Back When My World Was Blue” (Vince Gill, Ernest Smith, Chandler Walters)
- “Goin’ To Tampa” (Vince Gill, Al Anderson, McKinley James)
- “I Cried All The Way To Memphis” (Vince Gill, Patrick Droney)
- “Mama’s Gone To Heaven” (Vince Gill, John Parks)
- “I’m On To You” (Vince Gill, Harper O’Neill)
- “Whenever You Come Around” (Vince Gill, Pete Wasner)
Nobody Held Her Like Me features two Fender Stratocasters: one is a 1959 Gill bought from the son of Duane Eddy, who’d originally purchased the guitar; and the other is a refinished 1965 model he bought – for $200 and a pair of boots – from his late best friend and longtime guitar tech, Benny Garcia.
Re-visit EP 6’s catalog album – WHEN LOVE FINDS YOU (1994)
