EP – N° 8
About The EP & Guitar:
A MOTHER’S PRAYER
Each of Gill’s EP releases thus far have centered around a unifying idea and theme. The glue holding the seven songs on the eighth installment, A Mother’s Prayer, is a bit more subtle, but the connection is revealed after listening all the way through and considering the context.
“I think with each of these EPs, I’m working toward pairing the songs that will sit together, that flow together, that sequence well,” Gill explains. “I like the theme of these songs, what they’re about. Where they came from. There are definitely some very personal ones on A Mother’s Prayer.”
Appropriately, “I Still Believe In You” takes the closing spot on A Mother’s Prayer as the previous hit single Gill chose to include on this EP.
Like the other 50 Years From Home EPs, A Mother’s Prayer was produced by Gill at his home studio near Nashville, with engineers Justin Niebank and Matt Rausch and a core group of musicians that includes John Jarvis and Gordon Mote on piano, guitarists Jedd Hughes and Tom Bukovac, steel guitarist Paul Franklin, Jim “Moose” Brown on organ, bassist Jimmie Lee Sloas and drummer Fred Eltringham.
Tracklist:
- “A Mother’s Prayer” (Vince Gill, Jordan Fletcher, Maggie Rose)
- “Don’t Keep Me Waiting” (Vince Gill, Nathan Chapman)
- “This Heart Of Mine” (Vince Gill, Breland)
- “My Daughter” (Vince Gill, Joy Williams)
- “Forever In My Mind” (Vince Gill, Brent Loper)
- “Roses And Diamonds” (Vince Gill, John Jarvis)
- “I Still Believe In You” (Vince Gill, John Jarvis)
A Mother’s Prayer features a dobro that Vince purchased from the late luthier and instrument dealer Harry Sparks, on the occasion of him leaving his native Oklahoma in 1975 to pursue his music career.
RE-VISIT EP 8’S CATALOG ALBUM – I STILL BELIEVE IN YOU (1992)
