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Vince Gill starts filling in 2009 schedule
Vince Gill , who is currently spreading Christmas cheer around the US with wife Amy Grant , will greet the New Year with a couple of Nashville residencies.
The country star has booked a mid-January three-night stand at Music City's Laura Turner Concert Hall, and he'll spend three Tuesday evenings in February as the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum's 2009 Artist-in-Residence. That residency program annually honors a musical master who is credited with contributing a large and significant body of work to the canon of American popular music, according to the museum.
Gill has also assembled a smattering of spring and summer engagements that will take him from the Midwest to the East Coast into June. His updated itinerary is listed below.
The Country Music Hall of Famer has toured heavily over the past couple of years to support his sprawling, quadruple-album release, "These Days," which surfaced in the fall of 2006 and landed in the Top 5 on the country albums chart. The platinum-selling set comprises 43 new and original songs that Gill wrote or co-wrote, and each disc explores a different musical mood: traditional country; ballads; contemporary, up-tempo songs; and acoustic/bluegrass music.
"These Days" features more than 20 guest performers, including Grant, Sheryl Crow, Bonnie Raitt, Trisha Yearwood, Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell, Phil Everly, LeAnn Rimes, Gretchen Wilson, Michael McDonald and steel-guitar virtuoso Buddy Emmons. The Grammy-winning record has spawned the country hits "What You Give Away" and "The Reason Why" featuring Alison Krauss.
During his more than three-decade career, Gill has sold upwards of 26 million albums, earned 19 Grammys and taken home 18 Country Music Association Awards, according to his bio. The singer/songwriter/guitarist is also known as one of country music's most generous humanitarians, having lent his talent to hundreds of charitable events.
