Vince Gill Releases Nobody Held Her Like Me
Newest EP in Year-Long 50 Years From Home Series Out Today
With Special Guests Maggie Rose and Lamont Landers
For Immediate Release:
May 8, 2026
Vince Gill has worn his soul on his sleeve throughout his more than five decades as a recording artist. But he displays a proverbial heart full of soul on Nobody Held Her Like Me, the seventh volume in his monthly 50 Years From Home EP series.
“Nobody Held Her Like Me” kicks off with a smoothly melodic title track in the vein of the Eagles’ “I Can’t Tell You Why.” He co-wrote the song with Joe Glaser and Jimmy Nalls (Sea Level), and it’s yet another love song in his canon — albeit to a guitar. “Joe is the guy in Nashville who fixes everyone’s guitars. He asked me if he could bring Jimmy, a ‘great guitarist,’ over to the house. He mentioned that Jimmy was struggling with Parkinson’s. The three of us spent the day together and we talked about what Jimmy missed about being a musician. It inspired a guitar lick that I came up with. Eventually Jimmy passed away and I wanted to give both Jimmy and Joe credit for the lick they’d inspired that day.”
Gill penned the similarly laid-back broken-heart paean “Back When My World Was Blue” with young hitmakers Ernest and Chandler Walters. “It has a little bit of drinking in it, a little bit of melancholy in it, longing and all that stuff I love to sing about,” he says.
“Goin’ To Tampa” takes it to the honky-tonk, with the help of co-writers NRBQ’s “Big Al” Anderson, a longtime friend, and McKinley James. The title, Gill says, “is an old phrase I’ve kept in my back pocket for 40 or 45 years.” Anderson plays acoustic guitar on the track, which features a hot piano ride by John Jarvis.
Gill gets the hanky out again for “I Cried All the Way to Memphis,” a first-time collaboration with Patrick Droney that features backing vocals from Maggie Rose. “Amy (Grant, Gill’s wife) loves this song,” he says. “She was drawn to it from day one. It conjures up a pretty neat image.” I cried all the way to Memphis/It couldn’t get me over you. That’s very visual.
“Being asked to sing on Vince Gill’s record is the honor of a lifetime,” shares Rose. “He is one of the finest vocalists and writers of our time and being in the studio with him is exhilarating and enlightening. He also has a heart of gold and seems to really enjoy what he is doing which I love to see as an artist who looks up to him.”
“Mama’s Gone to Heaven” cranks up the tempo in a hand-clapping, gospel-flavored direction marked by more hot piano—this time by Gordon Mote— and a stinging guitar solo by Gill. The song was inspired by a conversation with John Parks, who works in the clubhouse at Gill’s regular golf course. “He’s friendly, the greatest guy ever,” Gill says. “He came up to me one day and said, ‘Vince, my mama just passed away. I don’t know who’s gonna pray for me now.’ That ripped my guts out, so I took what he said and went home and wrote this song.”
“I’m On To You” brings things back to mellow, and more heartbreak as Gill heads back into that lane with co-writer Harper O’Neill, whom he calls “a soulful singer in the Bonnie Raitt vein.” It also features America’s Got Talent finalist Lamont Landers, a red-headed, blue-eyed soul singer from Alabama — currently recording with Dave Cobb — whom Gill discovered via online performance posts.
As he’s done on the preceding EPs, Gill caps Nobody Held Her Like Me with one of his previous hits — this time “Whenever You Come Around,” which hit No. 2 on the Billboard Country charts as the first single from his When Love Finds You album in 1994.
Like its 50 Years From Home predecessors, Nobody Held Her Like Me was produced by Gill at his home studio near Nashville, with engineers Justin Niebank and Matt Rausch and a core group of players that, in addition to Jarvis and Mote, includes guitarists Tom Bukovac and Jedd Hughes, bassist Jimmie Lee Sloas, pedal steel hero Paul Franklin, and drummer Fred Eltringham. Commemorating his departure from his native Oklahoma to begin his music career in earnest, Gill has been releasing a new EP each month, drawing from songs he has accumulated mostly during the past few years, with each collection built around a unifying theme. During this time he’s continuing to play with the Eagles, including a run of stadium shows as part of its The Long Goodbye, Act III tour, as well as solo dates that resume in June and run through August. The Eagles have just announced new Sphere dates of September 18 and 19, and November 13, 14, 27, 28. Gill and Grant will also play their annual Christmas at the Ryman run during December. All dates can be found via vincegill.com.
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