EP – N° 2
About The EP & Guitar:
SECONDHAND SMOKE
On the second EP of the series, Secondhand Smoke, Gill is sentimental and nostalgic, yet also outward-looking, examining big issues and addressing some tough questions, albeit from the same humanistic perspective he’s brought to all his work.
The EPs title track is the last of the un-released material featured on this EP. “Secondhand Smoke” was co-written with Derrick Southerland. “My father was a chain smoker,” Gill says of Stan Gill, a judge who taught his son to play guitar and banjo. “Derrick had this title for a long time. I said, ‘Man, that’s my life. Can I write it with you?’ All I had to do is remember my dad. So that one is pretty autobiographical.”
Secondhand Smoke was produced by Gill and recorded at The House studio in Nashville. It was recorded with Gill’s regular corps of musical cohorts, including fiddler Stuart Duncan, Paul Franklin on steel guitar, guitarists Tom Bukovac and Jedd Hughes, drummer Fred Eltringham, bassist Jimmie Lee Sloas, keyboardists Gordon Mote and John Jarvis, and harmony vocalists Wendy Moten and John Meador.
Tracklist:
- March On March On
- Some Times
- The Whole World
- Hill People
- Leaving Home
- Secondhand Smoke
- Tryin’ To Get Over You
On Secondhand Smoke, Vince has chosen to feature, from left to right: A Gibson ES-125 which belonged to his father, Stan Gill; Gill’s first banjo, a 50-year-old Gibson built by Harry Sparks; a Harmony guitar which also belonged to Stan.
