Vince Gill - 50 Years From Home: Secondhand Smoke (2025)

Featured guests or co-writers – The War & Treaty, Ashley McBryde, Mary Gauthier, Abbey Cone & Derrick Southerland

NASHVILLE – November 14, 2025 — For Vince Gill, a project like 50 Years From Home (MCA)—a year-long set of monthly EPs commemorating his departure from his native Oklahoma for a music career that became legendary—is deeply personal.

And, how could it not be? “I’m drawn to melancholy,” Gill explains. “I’m drawn to sad songs probably way more than the zippity do-dahs, as Townes Van Zant would say. He said, ‘There’s only two kinds of music, the blues and the zippity do-dah. I don’t do zippity do-dah.’ I think I fall into that category, too,” he adds with a smile.

On the second EP of the series, Secondhand Smoke, out today, Gill is sentimental and nostalgic, yet also outward-looking, examining big issues and addressing some tough questions, albeit from the same humanistic perspective he’s brought to all his work. The EP contains six never-released songs along with the Gill classic “Tryin’ To Get Over You.”

Instruments featured on the cover of each EP are from Gill’s personal collection.

From left to right: A Gibson ES-125 which belonged to his father, Stan Gill; Gill’s first banjo, a 50-year-old Gibson built by Harry Sparks; a Harmony guitar which also belong to Stan.