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"I had no expectations of what it would sound like in my home studio," he says. "I've never recorded in my house before. So I discovered an awful lot about how the rooms sound, and it's a real warm record".
"I don't know what it is, but it's so different than most studios in that there are windows all the way around the room. You look out and see trees. There's such a great spirit running around in the house and in the rooms that all the musicians have raved about the vibe. It's real low key; it's not commercial-feeling at all."
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Guitar Slinger is the follow-up to his critically acclaimed four-CD, 43-song box set, These Days, which was certified platinum, won the 2006 Grammy for Best Country Album and received an overall Grammy Album of the Year nomination.
After a long and musically productive spell of writing, touring and recording with other artists, Vince Gill released the lead track "Threaten Me With Heaven". Gill co-wrote "Threaten Me With Heaven" with his wife, singer/songwriter Amy Grant, Dillon O'Brian and Will Owsley.
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24 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Prime Cuts: Who Wouldn't Fall in Love with You; When Lonely Comes Around; True Love (with Amy Grant)
Gill's album titular "Guitar Slinger" is a bit of a misnomer. On a cursory glance, the title "Guitar Slinger" might suggest that this is an instrumental album in the likes of Brad Paisley's "Play" or Steve Wariner's "Guitar Laboratory." Still others might think of this set as a showcase for Gill as a guitar virtuoso. Definitely Gill does show off his expertise at picking the nylon on various tracks, but this is essentially a contemporary country record with Gill in top vocal form waxing with eloquence his silky tenor over 12 songs he co-penned. In keeping with his stellar tradition of telling compelling stories, here the stories abound. Whether if he's telling the story of a homeless person ("Bread and Water") or a man contemplating suicide ("Billy Paul") or his own romantic journey ("Guitar Slinger"), Gill still has the ability to capture our imagination with his creativity and his attention paid to the stories' emotional and spiritual details. With such a galore of rich stories, it would have been better to title this disc "Story Slinger." Coming 5 years after his last release "These Days," Gill has not lost his touch of creating music that interweaves the stories of his protagonists with our own stories. Many of these cuts are fresh, engaging and above par relative to what's out there on country radio now; given the right promotion this is pregnant with hits ready to be birthed.
Album opener is an exceptional Gill barnburner: it bears all the imprints of greatness. The Jerry Lee Lewis-type piano jamming, the stately anthemic build up to the explosive chorus and the all so-romantic lyrics of how a guitar slinger found true love with that "contemporary Christian singer." And the "contemporary Christian singer" (aka wife Amy Grant) does show up on the album's sophomore single "True Love." Here Grant and Gill trade lines over this breezy ballad about the persistency of love in the midst of trails over a sturdy background of affecting strings. Grant shows up also as a co-writer on two other tracks: one of them being the lead single "Threaten Me with Heaven." This moralistic tale of not taking life for granted is a multi-layered busy number comes with a Gospel-inflected chorus that is made much more haunting when one of the co-writers Will Owsley committed suicide some time after writing this song. The question thus lingers: did Owsley ever take the lyrics of this song to heart? Grant again shows up in co-penning "When Lonely Comes Around." Given that one of Gill's album titles and hit was "When Love Comes Around," "When Lonely Comes Around" automatically calls to mind the earlier cut.
Leslie Satcher who has written Kellie Pickler's "Tough" and George Strait's "Troubadour" teams with Gill to write "Bread and Water." This is the album's richest narrative gem where both Gill and Satcher interweaves the story of a homeless person with the stories of Jesus in the Bible. Most arresting is the line "even Jesus was a homeless man." This is the type of song that really challenges our souls to think deeper about Jesus and social issues. Gill is not afraid to step out of his comfort zone when he dives into Southern R&B traditions of long lonesome electric guitar solos with the Delbert McClinton-like "When the Lady Sings the Blues." Gill goes further in the country-soul territory with "Tell Me Fool" which again sounds in tune and title like his former album cut "Tell Me Lover" (from his "High Lonesome Sound" CD). Gill takes on the Bakersfield sound with the sweepingly catchy "Billy Paul" which guises the dark plot about a murder-suicide story.
Above all, Gill is still at the best when he croons a love song. This is why a glance through Gill's hit-studded discography shows that many of his biggest hits were love songs ("Feels Like Love" and "I Still Believe in You"). Here Gill melts hearts again with "Who Wouldn't Fall in Love with You"--a sonic arrow to the heart that is compellingly sung with earnestness. On an album this good, to say that Gill is just a "guitar slinger" is a misnomer in itself. No, he still is country best crooner of story songs.
Gill's album titular "Guitar Slinger" is a bit of a misnomer. On a cursory glance, the title "Guitar Slinger" might suggest that this is an instrumental album in the likes of Brad Paisley's "Play" or Steve Wariner's "Guitar Laboratory." Still others might think of this set as a showcase for Gill as a guitar virtuoso. Definitely Gill does show off his expertise at picking the nylon on various tracks, but this is essentially a contemporary country record with Gill in top vocal form waxing with eloquence his silky tenor over 12 songs he co-penned. In keeping with his stellar tradition of telling compelling stories, here the stories abound. Whether if he's telling the story of a homeless person ("Bread and Water") or a man contemplating suicide ("Billy Paul") or his own romantic journey ("Guitar Slinger"), Gill still has the ability to capture our imagination with his creativity and his attention paid to the stories' emotional and spiritual details. With such a galore of rich stories, it would have been better to title this disc "Story Slinger." Coming 5 years after his last release "These Days," Gill has not lost his touch of creating music that interweaves the stories of his protagonists with our own stories. Many of these cuts are fresh, engaging and above par relative to what's out there on country radio now; given the right promotion this is pregnant with hits ready to be birthed.
Album opener is an exceptional Gill barnburner: it bears all the imprints of greatness. The Jerry Lee Lewis-type piano jamming, the stately anthemic build up to the explosive chorus and the all so-romantic lyrics of how a guitar slinger found true love with that "contemporary Christian singer." And the "contemporary Christian singer" (aka wife Amy Grant) does show up on the album's sophomore single "True Love." Here Grant and Gill trade lines over this breezy ballad about the persistency of love in the midst of trails over a sturdy background of affecting strings. Grant shows up also as a co-writer on two other tracks: one of them being the lead single "Threaten Me with Heaven." This moralistic tale of not taking life for granted is a multi-layered busy number comes with a Gospel-inflected chorus that is made much more haunting when one of the co-writers Will Owsley committed suicide some time after writing this song. The question thus lingers: did Owsley ever take the lyrics of this song to heart? Grant again shows up in co-penning "When Lonely Comes Around." Given that one of Gill's album titles and hit was "When Love Comes Around," "When Lonely Comes Around" automatically calls to mind the earlier cut.
Leslie Satcher who has written Kellie Pickler's "Tough" and George Strait's "Troubadour" teams with Gill to write "Bread and Water." This is the album's richest narrative gem where both Gill and Satcher interweaves the story of a homeless person with the stories of Jesus in the Bible. Most arresting is the line "even Jesus was a homeless man." This is the type of song that really challenges our souls to think deeper about Jesus and social issues. Gill is not afraid to step out of his comfort zone when he dives into Southern R&B traditions of long lonesome electric guitar solos with the Delbert McClinton-like "When the Lady Sings the Blues." Gill goes further in the country-soul territory with "Tell Me Fool" which again sounds in tune and title like his former album cut "Tell Me Lover" (from his "High Lonesome Sound" CD). Gill takes on the Bakersfield sound with the sweepingly catchy "Billy Paul" which guises the dark plot about a murder-suicide story.
Above all, Gill is still at the best when he croons a love song. This is why a glance through Gill's hit-studded discography shows that many of his biggest hits were love songs ("Feels Like Love" and "I Still Believe in You"). Here Gill melts hearts again with "Who Wouldn't Fall in Love with You"--a sonic arrow to the heart that is compellingly sung with earnestness. On an album this good, to say that Gill is just a "guitar slinger" is a misnomer in itself. No, he still is country best crooner of story songs.
13 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
In the interest of full disclosure, I will admit I am a huge Vince fan and doubt he would record anything I just didn't like. I've had this album now for about 6 hours and haven't picked a favorite, which is hard to do since all the songs are very well written, played and, of course, sung. It is a great follow up to his last endeavor "These Days." These songs talk of death, life, hope and love, and a motel with "color tv and the kids eat free" [The Old Lucky Diamond Motel]. This album is somehow quintessential Vince and at the same time it is different. It is, unsure how to explain it, smoother...sophisticated...damn good. In the title song, "Guitar Slinger", he sings "If ya'll just show up and cheer for me, I swear I'll play for free". Well, I am definitely cheering.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Hall of Famer Gill mixes it up with rockabilly, traditional country, inspirational, blues, and pop on this must-have CD. It's worth the wait (5 years since his last new release) and the few extra bucks for the 3 bonus tracks. He hasn't sounded better and this is one not to disappoint any country music fan.
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I JUST LOVE THE GUITAR SLINGER ALBUM!!!
ANOTHER GREAT ALBUM from VINCE GILL! I LOVED IT! There are several songs that I LOVE on this album! Among my favorites are:
GUITAR SLINGER
TELL ME FOOL... Read more
GUITAR SLINGER
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Published 23 days ago by Teresa
The only...
The only "country" artist I listen to...
A simple, honest man... fulfilling his destiny.
How amazingly rare during this century... the century of rat races.
A simple, honest man... fulfilling his destiny.
How amazingly rare during this century... the century of rat races.
Published 1 month ago by M. Mazzi
Too good to let slide by!!
Bought this CD a few weeks ago but I was thinking it was just Vince Gill playing a guitar. Didn't read other reviews because I make up my own mind. Read more
Published 1 month ago by P. J. Kehr
I love it!
I bought this for my husband for his birthday because we like Vince Gill as a very good guitar player and singer. I had no idea what to expect, I hadn't even seen any reviews. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Northeast Gardener
Excellence!
Fans of Vince Gill will not be disappointed with his latest work. While it is different than his usual, it is full of pleasant surprises in the form of incredible lyrics and... Read more
Published 2 months ago by J. Case
Vince Gill is once again superb...
...the title of this review says it all! He never disappoints; from ballad to rocker, this cd has it all.
Published 3 months ago by Eskimo602
vince gill c d guitar slinger
I had heard some of the cuts before I purchased it. I am pleased with the product as it was described, but the first cut was distorted at the start. Read more
Published 4 months ago by retired94
Not good enough for Vince Gill
Having listened to Vince Gill for many years now, I have always been impressed by his smooth voice, wide vocal range, and commitment to his music. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Charles E. Lamb
Love Vince Gill, but disappointed in Guitar Slinger
I like Vince Gill and always get his new releases. This one was a bit of a disappointment. Yes, some songs that I really like, but not the majority on this CD.
Published 4 months ago by Carolyn S. Whitehead
greatest yet
Another great Vince Gill album, never a bad one with this country star, every performance is a I want to hear it again.
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