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In one of the most touching moments of the entire CMA Awards, Brandi Carlile sang a tender version of Vince Gill\u2019s 1989 ballad \u201cWhen I Call Your Name\u201d to pay tribute to Gill, the recipient of this year\u2019s Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award. Carlile alone would have been a highlight, but then Patty Loveless emerged and the performance reached an even higher level.<\/p>\n
Gill himself knew it. Cameras captured the Oklahoma singer, songwriter, and guitarist watching raptly from the audience, just on the brink of tears.<\/p>\n
More from Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n After Carlile and Loveless\u2019s stellar performance, surprise guest George Strait took the stage to introduce Gill, who claimed that in the history of the award he is \u201cthe only one that\u2019s won\u2026that\u2019s never smoked any weed.\u201d He also paid tribute to the man the award is named after: Willie Nelson. \u201cWhat I admire most about him is his willingness to include his family. He calls his band \u2018family.\u2019 Man, that\u2019s a great way to live,\u201d Gill said.<\/p>\n Before the broadcast, Gill, 68, talked about how much receiving the award<\/a> meant to him. \u201cI\u2019m just grateful for who it\u2019s named after,\u201d he said<\/a>. \u201cWillie has been a friend of mine for 50 years, and he\u2019s a great inspiration. He\u2019s kind of the last one standing\u2026of all of my heroes, and he\u2019s still creative today as he\u2019s ever been, and that\u2019s inspiring. Recent winners of the award have included George Strait, Alan Jackson, and Loretta Lynn.<\/p>\n Carlile was a fitting choice for the tribute performance for more than one reason: In addition to both being world-class vocalists, Gill and Carlile have each flourished outside of the strict confines of the genre. Trivia alert: The singers both contributed backup vocals to Holler<\/em>, the 2018 solo album by Amy Ray of Indigo Girls.<\/p>\n Best of Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for RollingStone’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In one of the most touching moments of the entire CMA Awards, Brandi Carlile sang a tender version of Vince Gill\u2019s 1989 ballad \u201cWhen I Call Your Name\u201d to pay tribute to Gill, the recipient of this year\u2019s Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award. Carlile alone would have been a highlight, but then Patty Loveless emerged […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2167954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[354643,317642,348779,412396,314737,320519,22640],"class_list":["post-2167953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-brandi-carlile","tag-george-strait","tag-lifetime-achievement-award","tag-patty-loveless","tag-rolling-stone","tag-vince-gill","tag-willie-nelson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Brandi-Carlile-and-Patty-Loveless-Pay-Tribute-to-Vince-Gill.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2167953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2167955,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167953\/revisions\/2167955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2167954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2167953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2167953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2167953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}