EP – N° 5
About The EP & Guitar:
LONELY’S WHAT I DO
Sad is the flavor of Vince Gill on Lonely’s What I Do, the fifth volume in his 50 Years From Home EP series. And he’s happy about that. The EP is out now on MCA.
Gill left his hometown of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1975 to launch a career that now includes 22 Grammy Awards, both Country Music Hall of Fame and Grand Ole Opry member inductions, and 25 Top 10 hits on Billboard’s Country charts. One of the latter, “Pocket Full of Gold” from his 1991 album of the same name, is included along with the seven new recordings featured on Lonely’s What I Do. These songs are lovelorn laments, demonstrating a hurt that’s exquisite and palpable thanks to Gill’s rich, high and lonesome tenor and minor-key instrumentation.
Gill addresses this theme of sadness, explaining, “I love the melancholy in music. I always have. Maybe it goes back to the bluegrass days of the murder ballads, those kinds of songs. There’s so much more emotion in songs that have a little more despair. I think they’re as powerful as they are because they tell great stories. They paint great pictures that take you to that place — whether they’re true or not.”
Tracklist:
- “Nothing Like They Used To Be” (Vince Gill / Sharon Vaughn / Hadlie Jo Pritchard)
- “A Million Tears Ago” (Vince Gill / Mae Estes)
- “How’s The Leaving Going” (Vince Gill / Lee Thomas Miller / Kameron Marlowe)
- “Lonely’s What I Do” (Vince Gill / Sharon Vaughn / Belle Frantz)
- “The Last Thing You Left Behind” (Vince Gill / Tom Douglas)
- “How Lonely Lonely Gets” (Vince Gill)
- “The Book” (Vince Gill / Bob DiPiero)
- “Pocket Full of Gold” (Vince Gill / Brian Allsmiller)
The guitar on the cover of EP 5, Gill’s Gibson J-200 given to him by songwriter Paul Kennerly, is the same guitar that Vince plays on the back cover of his 1991 album, Pocket Full Of Gold.
Re-visit EP 5’s catalog album – Pocket Full Of Gold (1991)
