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    Vince Gill gets open and personal on his latest album, 'Okie'

    by Chrissie Dickinson, Chicago Tribune Sep 09, 2019 4 minutes

    CHICAGO - Vince Gill covers a lot of personal ground on his new album "Okie" (MCA Nashville). The country star offers heartfelt takes on his relationship with his mother, his marriage to Christian and country-pop singer Amy Grant and his friendship with the late singer-songwriter Guy Clark. There's also a devastating ballad about child sexual abuse, a song influenced by Gill's own run-in with a coach who acted inappropriately.

    "More than anything, I wanted to open myself up to vulnerability and tell the truth as best I could on this album," he says, calling from a tour stop in Thackerville, Okla.

    A member of the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Grand Ole Opry, Gill has 21 Grammys to

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