Gill,Vince Okie CD

2019 release. With the album's title and varied themes, Gill helps Merle Haggard and other inspirations reclaim Okie, a term used in the past to disparage Oklahoma natives living on the West Coast during the Dust Bowl and Great Depression years. For Gill, a proud Oklahoman, it now applies to common folks with specific fears and triumphs that are broadly relatable to listeners well beyond the Sooner State. "I thought this was going to be a songwriter record, not a concept album," Gill says. "It wound up being more information than I'd envisioned. A friend sent me an email saying, 'You could have only written this record after living a 60-year-plus life.' He said, 'There's no struggle in these songs, just truth and your experience.'"

1. I Don't Wanna Ride the Rails No More - 4:28 2. The Price of Regret - 3:50 3. Forever Changed - 3:41 4. An Honest Man - 3:41 5. What Choice Will You Make - 4:13 6. Black and White - 3:46 7. The Red Words - 4:48 8. When My Amy Prays - 3:56 9. A Letter to My Mama - 3:37 10. Nothin' Like a Guy Clark Song - 5:03 11. That Old Man of Mine - 3:53 12. A World Without Haggard - 4:54