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Vince Gill Doesn't Turn Down Offers to Sing Background Vocals

Posted by Carmen Wagster on 04/27/2009
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Vince Gill has won many awards, is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame and has performed and recorded hit after hit.  But Gill still enjoys making guest appearances on other people'artist's albums. Currently, Gill is featured on Steve Martin's banjo project; in 2008, he contributed his voice on background vocals in George Strait's "Troubadour"; and Gill plans to continue to make vocal cameo appearances in the future.
In an interview with The Green Bay Press-Gazette, Gill said, "I generally don't turn anything down if I'm available, and that's because I did that for a living for a lot of years. That's how I fed my family and paid for a house. If not for being an artist and making records, I made my money by working on everyone else's records as a session player and a session singer. It doesn't feel any different doing that now than it did then.''
Surprisingly, one collaboration that Gill rarely makes is with his wife, Amy Grant. Gill said, "We got married 20 or 25 years into our careers. It didn't make any sense to say, 'OK, now we're married. We've got to be Steve [Lawrence] & Eydie [Gorme] or Sonny & Cher or Donny & Marie [Osmond] or whoever.' On occasion, we write some songs together. On occasion, we sing together. We may make a duet record someday, but who knows. We feel like if there's one every now and then, that satisfies us.''
Gill has also lent his voice talents to Carrie Underwood's cover of "I Told You So," Patty Loveless' "Timber, I'm Falling In Love," Sara Evans' "No Place That Far," Conway Twitty's "That's My Job" and Reba McEntire's "Is There Life Out There."