{"id":17167,"date":"2019-07-31T11:52:25","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T17:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1809813"},"modified":"2019-07-31T11:52:25","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T17:52:25","slug":"vince-gill-brings-the-train-song-back-to-country-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/vince-gill-brings-the-train-song-back-to-country-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Vince Gill Brings the Train Song Back to Country Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:653348?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\">by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/shelburnec\/\" title=\"Posts by Craig Shelburne\" rel=\"author\">Craig Shelburne<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\">5m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Before there were trucks in country music, there were trains \u2014 and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/vince-gill\">Vince Gill<\/a>\u2019s newest song is bringing them back. \u201cI Don\u2019t Wanna Ride the Rails No More\u201d will be the first track on his upcoming album, <em>OKIE<\/em>, set for release on August 23.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s kind of a neat song about yearning,\u201d he told CMT.com during an interview in his Nashville living room. \u201cI don\u2019t necessarily want to quit traveling and it\u2019s not autobiographical \u2014 that I\u2019m going to get off the tour bus and stop touring. That\u2019s not going to happen! But it\u2019s just a song of yearning for someone to fall in love and find a companion, and not really necessarily know when he was gonna find one \u2014 but he did.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nGyXcGJnnM4?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nGyXcGJnnM4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>Gill said he considers <em>OKIE<\/em> a songwriter record, and while he did indeed co-write several songs on it, \u201cI Don\u2019t Wanna Ride the Rails No More\u201d is solely his own composition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody\u2019s always taken back in time a little bit, when they hear a song about trains,\u201d Gill said. \u201cThat\u2019s timeless. It\u2019s a really beautiful period of our history with the trains and sound they made. I still like to hear a train headed down track, you know?\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1809813\/vince-gill-brings-the-train-song-back-to-country-music\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Craig Shelburne 5m ago Before there were trucks in country music, there were trains \u2014 and Vince Gill\u2019s newest song is bringing them back. \u201cI Don\u2019t Wanna Ride the Rails No More\u201d will be the first track on his upcoming album, OKIE, set for release on August 23. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of a neat song [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 19:08:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}