Next Big Thing

Next Big Thing
Studio album by Vince Gill
Released	February 11, 2003 (2003-02-11)
Recorded	2002
Genre	Country
Length	1:04:13
Label	MCA Nashville
Producer	Vince Gill
Vince Gill chronology
Tis the Season (2000) Next Big Thing (2003) These Days (2006)
Singles from Next Big Thing
"Next Big Thing" Released: November 2002 "Someday" Released: March 29, 2003

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	80/100 [1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Billboard	(favorable) [3]
Country Weekly	(favorable) [4]
Entertainment Weekly	A− [5]
Q	[1]
USA Today	[6]

Next Big Thing is the tenth studio album from American country music artist Vince Gill. It was released in 2003 on MCA Nashville, and it features four singles: the title track, "Someday", "Young Man's Town", and "In These Last Few Days". These respectively reached #17, #31, #44 and #51 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts in 2003.

Track listing[]

1. "Next Big Thing" (Vince Gill, Al Anderson, John Hobbs) - 3:23
2. "She Never Makes Me Cry" (Gill) - 3:53
3. "Don't Let Her Get Away" (Gill, Anderson) - 3:04
4. "Someday" (Gill, Richard Marx) - 3:36
5. "These Broken Hearts" (Gill, Pete Wasner) - 4:51
6. "We Had It All" (Gill) - 3:58
7. "Young Man's Town" (Gill) - 4:30
8. "Real Mean Bottle" (Gill) - 3:15
9. "Whippoorwill River" (Gill, Dean Dillon) - 5:45
10. "The Sun's Gonna Shine on You" (Gill, Reed Nielsen) - 3:17
11. "From Where I Stand" (Gill, Anderson, Hobbs) - 3:38
12. "You Ain't Foolin' Nobody" (Gill, Nielsen) - 3:49
13. "Old Time Fiddle" (Gill, Leslie Satcher) - 2:48
14. "Without You" (Gill) - 3:08
15. "Two Hearts" (Gill, Satcher) - 3:59
16. "This Old Guitar and Me" (Gill) - 3:47
17. "In These Last Few Days" (Gill) - 3:32

Personnel[]

As listed in liner notes.

• Vince Gill – lead and backing vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin
• John Hobbs – keyboards, string arrangements (4, 5)
• Pete Wasner – keyboards
• Jim Hoke – accordion, autoharp, harmonica
• Mac McAnally – acoustic guitar
• Dean Parks – electric guitar
• Al Anderson – acoustic guitar (1, 3, 11), electric guitar (1, 3, 11)
• Tom Britt – slide guitar (1)
• John Hughey – steel guitar
• Willie Weeks – bass guitar
• Chad Cromwell – drums
• Eric Darken – percussion
• Stuart Duncan – fiddle
• Kirk Whalum – alto saxophone (1)
• Jim Horn – baritone saxophone (1), horn arrangements (1)
• Steve Herrman – trombone (1)
• Charles Rose – trumpet (1)
• The Nashville String Machine – strings (4, 5)

Harmony vocalists

• Bekka Bramlett (1, 11)
• Billy Thomas (1, 2, 4, 6, 10, 12)
• Harry Stinson (2, 12)
• Jeff White (3)
• Andrea Zonn (3)
• Michael McDonald (5)
• Kim Keyes (6, 10)
• Emmylou Harris (7)
• Dawn Sears (8, 14)
• Jenny Gill (9)
• Leslie Satcher (13)
• Lee Ann Womack (15)
• Amy Grant (17)

Charts[]

References[]

External links[]

• Next Big Thing at Metacritic