Guitar Slinger (Vince Gill album)

Guitar Slinger
Guitar Slinger
Studio album by Vince Gill
Released	October 25, 2011
Studio	The House and Blackbird Studio (Nashville, Tennessee);
Genre	Country
Length	53:57
Label	MCA Nashville
Producer	Vince Gill; John Hobbs; Justin Niebank;
Vince Gill chronology
Singles from Guitar Slinger
	"Threaten Me with Heaven"; Released: August 29, 2011;

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	78/100^[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[2]
Country Weekly	^[3]
Entertainment Weekly	A^[4]
The Independent	^[5]
PopMatters	^[6]
Slant Magazine	^[7]
USA Today	^[8]

Guitar Slinger is the twelfth studio album by American country music artist Vince Gill. It was released on October 25, 2011 via MCA Nashville.^[9] A deluxe edition was also released with three bonus tracks.^[10]

Lead-off single "Threaten Me with Heaven" received a nomination on the 54th Grammy Awards for Best Country Song and also a nomination for Song of the Year on the 47th Academy of Country Music Awards.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Guitar Slinger"	Vince Gill	4:05
2.	"Tell Me Fool"	Gill, Pete Wasner	4:05
3.	"Threaten Me with Heaven"	Gill, Amy Grant, Dillon O'Brian, Will Owsley	5:31
4.	"When the Lady Sings the Blues"	Gill, Wasner	4:34
5.	"Who Wouldn't Fall in Love with You"	Gill, Ashley Monroe	4:58
6.	"When Lonely Comes Around"	Gill, Grant, Owsley	3:45
7.	"True Love" (featuring Amy Grant)	Gill, Grant	4:44
8.	"Bread and Water"	Gill, Leslie Satcher	4:44
9.	"Billy Paul"	Gill	3:52
10.	"The Old Lucky Diamond Motel"	Gill	3:39
11.	"If I Die"	Gill, Monroe	3:40
12.	"Buttermilk John" (with the Time Jumpers)	Gill	6:20

Deluxe Edition track listing
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Guitar Slinger"	Vince Gill	4:05
2.	"All Nighter Comin'"	Gill, Al Anderson, Chris Stapleton	2:34
3.	"Tell Me Fool"	Gill, Pete Wasner	4:05
4.	"Threaten Me with Heaven"	Gill, Amy Grant, Dillon O'Brian, Will Owsley	5:31
5.	"When the Lady Sings the Blues"	Gill, Wasner	4:34
6.	"Who Wouldn't Fall in Love with You"	Gill, Ashley Monroe	4:58
7.	"When Lonely Comes Around"	Gill, Grant, Owsley	3:45
8.	"True Love"	Gill, Grant	4:44
9.	"Bread and Water"	Gill, Leslie Satcher	4:44
10.	"Billy Paul"	Gill	3:52
11.	"The Old Lucky Diamond Motel"	Gill	3:39
12.	"Lipstick Everywhere"	Gill	3:11
13.	"One More Thing I Wished I'd Said"	Gill, Amber Digby	4:05
14.	"If I Die"	Gill, Monroe	3:40
15.	"Buttermilk John"	Gill	6:20

Personnel

Credits from European version:

Vince Gill – lead vocals, electric guitar (1-8, 10-12, 14), acoustic guitar (2-4, 6-15), backing vocals (6, 8, 10), banjo (11), mandolin (11)
John Hobbs – acoustic piano (1, 3, 6-8, 10, 12-14), keyboards (2), Hammond B3 organ (3-6, 8, 9, 13, 14), accordion (11)
Pete Wasner – synthesizers, Hammond B3 organ (1, 7), Wurlitzer electric piano (3, 5, 8) acoustic piano (4, 9, 11), Rhodes (4), Wurlitzer organ (10)
Richard Bennett – acoustic guitar (1, 5, 7, 10, 12, 13), electric guitar (4, 14)
Tom Bukovac – electric guitar (1, 3-5, 7, 8, 10)
Al Anderson – electric guitar (2)
Tom Britt – electric guitar (3, 9, 15)
Will Owsley – electric guitar (4, 7)
Andy Riess – electric guitar (15)
Paul Franklin – steel guitar (1, 2, 10, 12-15), dobro (5)
Russ Pahl – steel guitar (9)
Glenn Worf – bass guitar (1, 5, 10)
Michael Rhodes – bass (2-4, 6, 7, 11-14)
David Hungate – bass (8, 9)
Dennis Crouch – upright bass (15)
Chad Cromwell – drums (1, 3-8, 10, 11)
Eddie Bayers – drums (2, 12-14)
Rick Vanaugh – drums (15)
Eric Darken – percussion
Larry Franklin – fiddle (12, 13)
Aubrey Haynie – fiddle (15)
Kenny Sears – fiddle (15)
Joe Spivey – fiddle (15)
Bekka Bramlett – backing vocals (1, 3, 4, 15)
Jenny Gill – backing vocals (1-7, 9, 10)
Chris Stapleton – backing vocals (2-4)
Billy Thomas – backing vocals (2-5, 15), drums (9)
Amy Grant – backing vocals (4, 8), lead vocals (8)
Kim Keyes – backing vocals (4)
Gene Miller – backing vocals (4, 7)
Dawn Sears – backing vocals (5, 13)
Jeff White – backing vocals (5, 9, 11, 15)
Ashley Monroe – backing vocals (6)
Sarah Chapman – backing vocals (8)
Andrea Zonn – backing vocals (9, 11), fiddle (11)
Corrina Gill – backing vocals (9)
Wes Hightower – backing vocals (12, 13)
Lee Ann Womack – backing vocals (12)
Sonya Isaacs – backing vocals (14)
Sarah Siskind – backing vocals (14)