{"id":1723,"date":"2025-03-08T01:30:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T01:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/?p=1723"},"modified":"2025-03-08T01:30:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T01:30:13","slug":"dolly-parton-vince-gill-and-keith-urban-came-together-for-a-soul-stirring-tribute-he-stopped-loving-her-today-but-for-dolly-the-song-carried-a-weigh-beyond-words-after-60-years-of-marriag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/?p=1723","title":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton, Vince Gill, and Keith Urban came together for a soul-stirring tribute\u2014He Stopped Loving Her Today. But for Dolly, the song carried a weigh beyond words. After 60 years of marriage, the love of her life was gone. Yet, in her heart, she knew the truth\u2014he never stopped loving her. He was simply waiting, loving her still, in another life. As her voice trembled with emotion, t audience felt it too\u2014love this deep never fades, never ends."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Country music legends\u00a0Dolly Parton\u00a0and\u00a0Vince Gill\u00a0joined forced with country super star\u00a0Keith Urban\u00a0during a benefit concert at\u00a0<em>The Country Music Museum and Hall of Fame,\u00a0<\/em>treating guests to a remarkable performance of a country classic.<\/p>\n<p>Parton opened up their performance by confessing her admiration for fellow performer Gill, admitting to the audience that, years and years back, she often wondered if the singer felt lonely seeing that he was so far from home.\u00a0<em>\u201cI wrote him a note one time, and I said, \u2018Well, call on me if you need me. I can be your other mother, your other lover, or the sister you never wanted.\u2019 Of course, I never hear back from him on it,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0she laughed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"a32c8213782bb5f2813a3c36b79afeac\" data-index=\"2\"><\/div>\n<p>After a few impromptu jokes directed at her crowd and various outspoken crowd members,\u00a0<em>Parton introduced their following performance as they gradually transitioned into a chilling rendition of George Jones\u2019 \u201cHe Stopped Loving Her Today\u201d.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The audience was speechless as Parton\u2019s sensational vocals\u00a0carried the incredibly moving lyrics, singing,\u00a0<em>\u201c<\/em><em>He kept her picture on his wall\/\u00a0Went half crazy now and then\/ He still loved her through it all\/ Hoping she\u2019d come back again.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As the song continued, Urban and Gill joined the singer, accompanying her vocals throughout the chorus and haunting lyrics,\u00a0<em>\u201c<\/em><em>You know she came to see him one last time\/ Oh and we all wondered if she would\/ And it kept running through my mind\/ This time he\u2019s over her for good.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this inspiring performance below and tell us what you thought.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"fitvid653515\" title=\"Dolly Parton, Vince Gill &amp; Keith Urban, He Stopped Loving Her Today\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MSoIBdD3WrI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country music legends\u00a0Dolly Parton\u00a0and\u00a0Vince Gill\u00a0joined forced with country super star\u00a0Keith Urban\u00a0during a benefit concert at\u00a0The Country Music Museum and Hall of Fame,\u00a0treating guests to a remarkable performance&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1723","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\/1723","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=1723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1725,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions\/1725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}