2021 Grammy Award-Winner for Best Country Solo Performance ("When My Amy Prays")!

Okie marks Grammy Award-winning MCA Nashville country star Vince Gill's most recent solo album since 2016's Down To My Last Bad Habit and 2011's Guitar Slinger. Gill wrote or co-wrote all 12 songs on Okie and the album's title is taken from the once-derogatory term used to disparage migrants from Oklahoma to the nation's west coast during the Dust Bowl and Great Depression eras. A proud Oklahoman, Gill has appropriated this term on an album that embraces his roots and explores some of the most important issues of our time. "I thought this was going to be a songwriter record, not a concept album," Gill says. "It wound up being more information than I'd envisioned. A friend sent me an email saying, ‘You could have only written this record after living a 60-year-plus life.' He said, ‘There's no struggle in these songs, just truth and your experience."