{"id":1125,"date":"2025-02-04T07:54:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T07:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2025-02-04T07:54:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T07:54:06","slug":"when-chris-stapleton-sings-vince-gills-masterpiece-its-nothing-short-of-a-musical-dream-come-true-vince-gill-a-living-legend-and-national-treasure-sat-watching-from-afar-his-qui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/?p=1125","title":{"rendered":"When Chris Stapleton sings Vince Gill\u2019s masterpiece, it\u2019s nothing short of a musical dream come true. Vince Gill, a living legend and national treasure, sat watching from afar, his quiet smile filled with pride and encouragement, like a mentor cheering on a fellow artist. As always, Chris delivered pure magic, his soulful voice turning every note into gold."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/flashnewswave.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/thumb-52.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flashnewswave.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/thumb-52.jpg 650w, https:\/\/flashnewswave.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/thumb-52-300x162.jpg 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"351\" \/><\/p>\n<article class=\"small single p-3\"><ins class=\"982a9496\" data-key=\"07709f998cf05ef88546b4661380ac68\"><\/ins>CMT have shared images and YouTube highlights from the taping of their 90-minute special\u00a0<em>CMT Giants:\u00a0<strong>Vince Gill<\/strong><\/em>. The show\u00a0<strong>premiered last Friday<\/strong>\u00a0(16) on CMT and featured a remarkable array of friends, collaborators, and admirers, gathering in Gill\u2019s honor at Belmont University\u2019s Fisher Center for the Performing Arts in Nashville.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sheryl Crow<\/strong>\u00a0introduced the show, welcoming the invitation-only crowd by recalling that Gill had been the first person to call her when she got to Nashville. Brad Paisley opened the show by performing Gill\u2019s 1991 hit \u201cLiza Jane,\u201d and Gill\u2019s fellow Oklahoma native\u00a0<strong>Carrie Underwood<\/strong>\u00a0sang his Grammy-winning 1995 release \u201cGo Rest High On That Mountain,\u201d backed by a choir of Belmont students.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW \ud83d\udc47<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"XoqwIcty\"><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chris Stapleton Performs &quot;Whenever You Come Around&quot; | CMT Giants: Vince Gill\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xuZGBeF3_P0\" width=\"350\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chris Stapleton<\/strong>\u00a0offered a reading of \u201cWhenever You Come Around\u201d and Gill\u2019s band member and recent finalist on\u00a0<em>The Voice<\/em>, Wendy Moten, received the first standing ovation of the evening with \u201cI Still Believe In You.\u201d Others interpreting Gill\u2019s catalog and offering warm wishes to one of the best-loved pillars of the Nashville community included Maren Morris, with \u201cDon\u2019t Let Our Love Start Slippin\u2019 Away,\u201d and Luke Combs, who sang \u201cPretty Little Adriana.\u201d He observed that a concert by the honoree had been his first as a music fan, and the full-circle moment that saw Gill induct him into the Grand Ole Opry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sting<\/strong>, who had earlier introduced Stapleton, performed \u201cThese Days,\u201d ten years after he and Gill worked together on their acclaimed\u00a0<em>CMT Crossroads<\/em>\u00a0collaboration. Cody Johnson reprised the song he performed at the Grand Ole Opry recently, Gill\u2019s career-elevating \u201cWhen I Call Your Name.\u201d Another longtime friend of the star, Ricky Skaggs, was with his band Kentucky Thunder to put a bluegrass spin on \u201cOne More Last Chance.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"KWUVGbuR\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"uD-YT-container\">\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Vince Gill Performs &amp;quot;I Gave You Everything I Had&amp;quot; | CMT Giants: Vince Gill\">\n<div id=\"WYL_8-CrKwh5mv4\" class=\"lyte lP\">\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CMT have shared images and YouTube highlights from the taping of their 90-minute special\u00a0CMT Giants:\u00a0Vince Gill. The show\u00a0premiered last Friday\u00a0(16) on CMT and featured a remarkable array&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1127,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions\/1127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}