Vince Gill\u2019s iconic and beloved song \u201cGo Rest High On That Mountain\u201d celebrated its 30th anniversary with the release of an extended version that includes a new verse.<\/p>\n
The now RIAA-certified double-platinum single is one of the most significant and enduring songs in country music having resonated with listeners around the world over the last three decades.<\/p>\n
In 1996, the song was awarded two Grammys for Best Male Country Vocal Performance and Best Country Song, a CMA Award for Song of the Year, and in 1997 received BMI\u2019s Most Performed Song award.<\/p>\n
Gill was inspired to write the song following the death of his friend, country singer and at-the-time labelmate Keith Whitley, but it was the death of Gill\u2019s brother Bob in 1993 that compelled him to complete it.<\/p>\n
However, in 2019, during one of his Christmas at the Ryman performances with wife Amy Grant, Gill performed the song but included a new verse.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe last thirty years I\u2019ve always felt like something was missing from this song. With this new third verse I finally feel like the song is complete.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vince Gill\u2019s iconic and beloved song \u201cGo Rest High On That Mountain\u201d celebrated its 30th anniversary with the release of an extended version that includes a new verse.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":33074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[870,6630,93],"class_list":["post-33073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-anniversary","tag-go-rest-high-on-that-mountain","tag-vince-gill"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 10:34:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/09\/vince-gill-celebrates-30-years-of-go-rest-high-on-that-mountain\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33075,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33073\/revisions\/33075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}