These Days (Vince Gill album)

Infobox Album |
Name = These Days
Type = box
Artist = Vince Gill


Released = October 17, 2006
Recorded =
Genre = Country
Length = 2:44:37
Label = MCA Nashville
Producer = Vince Gill
John Hobbs
Justin Niebank
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ipxuak8kdm3v~T1 link]
Last album = "Next Big Thing"
(2003)
This album = "These Days"
(2006)
Next album = TBD

"These Days" is a 2006 box set by country artist Vince Gill. Consisting of 43 original songs spanning four discs, the album displays the range of Gill’s lyrical and musical styles, ranging from traditional country and bluegrass to jazz and rock. It won the Best Country Album award at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards.

History

To accompany him on this undertaking, Gill turned both to artists he knew and had worked with before and to those whose music he admired froma distance. "I never try to fill up my records with famous people," Gill says. "I try to fill them up with the most talented people I can find on the face of the earth." By the time the project was completed, that group included Sheryl Crow, Bonnie Raitt, Diana Krall, Rodney Crowell, Patty Loveless, Phil Everly, the Del McCoury Band, Alison Krauss, Emmylou Harris, John Anderson, Lee Ann Womack, Jenny Gill, Amy Grant, LeAnn Rimes, Gretchen Wilson, Guy Clark, Trisha Yearwood, Bekka Bramlett, Michael McDonald, steel-guitarist Buddy Emmons and many other musical standouts.

Initially, Gill planned to pare down the songs he’d recorded to a single album. Then, in one of the studios he used, he spotted some Beatles memorabilia and recalled that the Fab Four had routinely released multiple albums within the same year.

Gill took the idea to Luke Lewis, Universal Music Group Nashville Co-Chairman, who totally supported his notion of multiple releases. In fact, Lewis came up with an even more radical strategy: he told Vince to go and record more songs that explore his passion for acoustic sounds and release a 4-CD set. And that’s exactly what happened.

The album debuted on the U.S. Billboard 200 at number 17, with 42,000 copies sold in its first week. [Katie Hasty, [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/search/google/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003314423 "Diddy Scores First No. 1 Album In Nine Years"] , Billboard.com, October 25, 2006.] This was also the album's peak position on the chart. [ [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/retrieve_chart_history.do?model.chartFormatGroupName=Albums&model.vnuArtistId=64067&model.vnuAlbumId=796714 Artist chart history for Vince Gill (albums)] , Billboard.com.]

ingles

Three singles were released from this album, of which two were duets. The first single, "The Reason Why" (featuring Alison Krauss) reached #28 on the Hot Country Songs charts; following it was "What You Give Away", which featured Sheryl Crow and peaked at #43. The third single, "How Lonely Looks", failed to chart.

Track listing

"Workin' on a Big Chill"

"The Rockin' Record"

#"Workin’ on a Big Chill"
#"Love’s Standin’"
#"Cowboy Up" (featuring Gretchen Wilson)
#"Sweet Thing"
#"Bet It All on You"
#"Nothin’ for a Broken Heart" (Duet w/Rodney Crowell)
#"Son of a Ramblin’ Man" (featuring Del McCoury Band)
#"Smilin’ Song" (featuring Michael McDonald)
#"The Rhythm of the Pourin’ Rain" (featuring Bekka Bramlett)
#"Nothin’ Left to Say"

"The Reason Why"

"The Groovy Record"

#"What You Don't Say" (with LeAnn Rimes)
#"The Reason Why" (with Alison Krauss)
#"The Rock of Your Love" (with Bonnie Raitt)
#"What You Give Away" (with Sheryl Crow)
#"Faint of Heart" (with Diana Krall)
#"Time to Carry On" (with Jenny Gill)
#"No Easy Way"
#"This Memory of You" (with Trisha Yearwood)
#"How Lonely Looks"
#"Tell Me One More Time About Jesus" (with Amy Grant)
#"Everything and Nothing" (with Katrina Elam)
#"Which Way Will You Go"
#"These Days"

"Some Things Never Get Old"

"The Country and Western Record"

#"This New Heartache"
#"The Only Love"
#"Out of My Mind" (featuring Patty Loveless)
#"The Sight of Me Without You"
#"I Can’t Let Go" (featuring Alison Krauss & Dan Tyminski)
#"Don’t Pretend with Me"
#"Some Things Never Get Old" (featuring Emmylou Harris)
#"Sweet Little Corrina" (featuring Phil Everly)
#"If I Can Make Mississippi" (featuring Lee Ann Womack)
#"Take This Country Back" (Duet w/John Anderson)

"Little Brother"

"The Acoustic Record"

#"All Prayed Up"
#"Cold Gray Light of Gone" (featuring The Del McCoury Band)
#"A River Like You" (featuring Jenny Gill)
#"Ace Up Your Pretty Sleeve"
#"Molly Brown"
#"Girl" (Guest Vocalist: Rebecca Lynn Howard)
#"Give Me the Highway" (featuring The Del McCoury Band)
#"Sweet Augusta Darlin’"
#"Little Brother"
#"Almost Home" (Duet w/Guy Clark)

References

* [http://www.smartchoicemusic.com/store/These-Days-4-CD-Set-Vince-Gill-pr-644.html UK release information and artwork]