Gill was born in Norman, Oklahoma, the home of the University of Oklahoma Sooners and learned to play several instruments, including banjo and guitar before he started high school at Oklahoma City's Northwest Classen High School. After he graduated, he played in a number of bluegrass bands. He debuted on the national scene with the country-rock band Pure Prairie League in 1979, appearing on that band's album Can't Hold Back. Gill is the lead singer on their hit song, "Let Me Love You Tonight" (1980), which he was still performing in concert years later - thus, he said, confusing many fans who knew him only from his subsequent solo work. Gill appeared on two subsequent albums along with his then-wife Janis Oliver.
Departing Pure Prairie League in 1981, Gill joined Rodney Crowell’s backing band The Notorious Cherry Bombs, where he met and worked with Tony Brown and Emory Gordy Jr., both of whom would later produce many of his future solo albums.
Signing as a solo artist with RCA Records in 1983, he first charted while on that label. In 1989 he switched to MCA Records where he recorded his breakthrough hit "When I Call Your Name." His 1998 album The Key received great critical acclaim. His other albums include Next Big Thing (2003) and Let's Make Sure We Kiss Goodbye (2000). The Guitar Slinger Songfacts says that Gill released his twelfth studio album, Guitar Slinger, on October 25, 2011 via MCA Nashville. It was his manager, Larry Fitzgerald, who came up with the title, as he felt there was something different the way Gill was playing the guitar on the record.
Gill hosted the CMA Awards every year from 1992 to 2003. In 2004 he received a Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance. In 1997, he was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
He married country singer Janis Oliver (of Sweethearts of the Rodeo fame) in 1980. The couple have one daughter, Jennifer Jerene Gill, born 5 May 1982. Vince and Janis separated in the mid-1990s and eventually divorced in June 1998. Vince later began dating and eventually married Christian/pop singer Amy Grant in March of 2000. They have one daughter, Corrina Grant Gill born 12 March 2001.
Dire Straits leader Mark Knopfler was a fan of Gill's, and had asked Gill to join the band full time. Gill turned down the invitation but did sing backup on one song ("The Bug") from Dire Straits' album On Every Street.
Gill has also sung duets with numerous artists, including Dolly Parton ("I Will Always Love You"), Reba McEntire ("Oklahoma Swing," "The Heart Won't Lie," "It Just Has to Be That Way"), Amy Grant ("House of Love"), and Barbra Streisand ("If You Ever Leave Me"); his other credits as a backup vocalist have included "Girls With Guitars" by Wynonna Judd (written by Mary-Chapin Carpenter, who, coincidentally, had a country hit with her cover of "The Bug") and "Nothing Left Behind Us" by Richard Marx.
Two Hearts
Vince Gill Lyrics
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He's nursin' a broken heart
There's a woman at a table
With her own brand of misery
Cryin' in the dark.
[Chorus]
Will two hearts make on tonight
Will strangers info comfort
In the cold neon light
Will two hearts make one tonight.
Oh, there's just a waitress between them
They're so close to finding their dreams
They're just one dance away
From easing the pain
Of coming apart at the seams.
[Chorus: x2]
Will two hears make one tonight
The lyrics of Vince Gill's song, "Two Hearts," depict a scene that is all too common in a bar - two broken-hearted individuals seeking solace from their respective heartaches through the companionship of strangers. The man and the woman are both nursing their broken hearts, but they are not alone. They are in a barroom, surrounded by others who are also trying to mask their pain. However, the two protagonists seem to have found comfort in each other's company - the lyrics suggest that they are "just one dance away from easing the pain." The chorus asks whether a connection will form between the two hearts tonight, whether in the embrace of someone equally lost and lonely, they will find a brief respite from heartbreak.
The lyrics of this song touch on the universal feeling of heartbreak and the search for solace. The song shows the power of the human connection and how two people can come together over shared experiences, even in the midst of emotional pain. The message is bittersweet - while the lyrics suggest that two hearts may make one tonight, the reality is that this connection may be fleeting and temporary.
Line by Line Meaning
There's a man drinkin' whiskey in a barroom
A man is consuming alcohol in a public establishment.
He's nursin' a broken heart
The man is attending to his heartache.
There's a woman at a table
A female is seated at a table.
With her own brand of misery
The woman has her own unique form of suffering.
Cryin' in the dark
The woman is shedding tears while in the absence of daylight.
Will two hearts make on tonight
Is it possible for two hearts to unite as one this evening?
Will somebody lost fond someone who's lost
Will an individual who is lost find someone else who is lost and grow to love them?
Will strangers info comfort
Will unfamiliar individuals discover solace with one another?
In the cold neon light
In the harsh, cooly hued lighting of neon bulbs.
Will two hearts make one tonight
Is it possible for two hearts to unite as one this evening?
Oh, there's just a waitress between them
Simply, a waitress is situated between them.
They're so close to finding their dreams
The two are in such close proximity to realizing their aspirations.
They're just one dance away
A single dance is all that stands between them.
From easing the pain
To lessen the ache of their suffering.
Of coming apart at the seams
The turmoil of falling apart and unraveling from within.
Will two hearts make one tonight
Is it possible for two hearts to unite as one this evening?
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., RESERVOIR MEDIA MANAGEMENT INC
Written by: LESLIE SATCHER, VINCE GILL
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