EP – N° 9

About The EP & Guitar:

EIGHTEEN SUMMERS

The theme of Eighteen Summers, the ninth volume of Vince Gill’s 50 Years From Home EP series, is established early on, when he sings, I’m old school country ever since I was young. Wide-ranging master instrumentalist, singer, songwriter and producer that he is, Gill never gets too far from country, of course. 

So, rightfully, Eighteen Summers “is kind of steeped in that,” according to Gill, whose father played in country bands around Norman, Oklahoma. “I got to listen to everything, growing up,” Gill recalls. “Bluegrass kinda got ahold of me in my teenage years, then I found my way into wanting to be a country artist—and that kind of worked out,” he adds with a laugh.

For the EP’s previously released single Gill chose “What the Cowgirls Do,” his hit from 1994’s When Love Finds Youalbum. “It fit the theme, and it mentions Texas in it and other parts of the country, Mississippi and whatnot. It felt like the right song to follow the others.”

Like the other 50 Years From Home EPs, Eighteen Summers was produced and recorded by Gill at his home studio near Nashville, with engineers Justin Niebank and Matt Rausch and a core group of musicians that includes Franklin, Meador and Mote, as well as guitarists Jedd Hughes, Jack Schneider, and Tom Bukovac, Jim “Moose” Brown and John Jarvis on keyboards, bassist Jimmie Lee Sloas, Stuart Duncan on fiddle, and drummer Fred Eltringham.

Tracklist:

  1. “Eighteen Summers” (Vince Gill, Cyndi Thomson)
  2. “I’m All The Mississippi You’ll Ever Needs” (Vince Gill, Belle Frantz)
  3. “I’ll Haunt Your Memory” (Vince Gill, Carter Faith, Ashley Monroe)
  4. “Gone Like Yesterday” (Vince Gill)
  5. “Dancing In Texas” (Vince Gill, Catie Offerman)
  6. “Last Night At Closing Times” (Vince Gill, Preston Cooper, Brett Warren, Brad Warren)
  7. “What The Cowgirls Do” (Vince Gill, John Jarvis)

Those familial musical roots are also celebrated on the guitar featured on the cover of Eighteen Summers. It’s been around Gill his whole life, though he doesn’t know where it came from initially. “It’s a tiny little thing I used to drag around with me everywhere and bang and beat on it,” he remembers. “My mom has a picture of me sleeping face down on the couch when I was about a year and a half, maybe two years old, with my arm around that guitar.”

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RE-VISIT EP 9’S CATALOG ALBUM – WHEN LOVE FINDS YOU (1994)

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