After the death of country star Keith Whitley in 1989 at the age of 34, Vince Gill started writing a song in memoriam. Gill returned to “Go Rest High on That Mountain” and finished it four years later when his older brother Bob died from a heart attack at 48. “I wrote this song, and […]
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