A lesson in giving back
"What you kind of yearn for as a performer, I think, more than anything is that connection, that intimacy that happens when you're in a smaller place. This'll be fun. It's just going to be me and a gui

 
By Brandy McDonnell
Published: March 27, 2008

When Vince Gill thinks of home, he can't help but remember his old elementary school.

After all, it stands just across the street from the Oklahoma City house where he grew up and his mother, Jerene Gill , still lives.

"The playground is our front yard in a sense, so it's a big picture of me thinking about home. ... It was my view from my window,” he said in a telephone interview from his home in Nashville...


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