![]() As most everyone here has commented, it touched me in relation to my son's death this year at the age of 25. 4 hours latter my eyes are still filled with tears. Phil from Cumberland, RiI heard this song for the first time today on Imus.What a wonderful, wonderful song! It really seemed like it was written for him, as so many other people feel! We know that our wonderful God took him to relieve him of all of his pain and heartache. We played "Go rest high on that mountain" at his funeral service, and there wasn't a dry eye in the place. Our hearts have been ripped apart, and it seems impossible to go on. ![]() Pat from Ocean View, DeOur beloved son, brother, father, uncle and friend, Tim, passed away Jan.It has helped me deal with the losing of my first born son, though you will never get over it. It's the hardest song in the world for me to listen to, but the most beautiful song to listen to. Dale from GeorgiaThis song came out 1 month after my son Jason, died from leukemia.Sharon Mingledorff from Columbia, TnMy Daddy wanted this song played at his funeral.Michael Pallos from Columbus, OhioI love Vince Gill songs and listen to him talk about his father Stan which I used to watch work on his house from the backyard at Carl's ignition.I sing the person's name and I added "spirit" to the refrain between father and son. I got the cd and the first person I sang it for was ny father. Janice Plecha from Lockport, NyFrom the first time I heard this song I knew I wanted to sing it for people's funerals.Andy Jay from Palmer, MaAlthough a huge fan of Vince Gill, another interpretation of this beautiful song is done by the a ccapella group Home Free and is equally mesmerizing.This song was played at my father, and my Aunt’s funeral. This is a beautiful song, and Ricky Skaggs and Patty Loveless make it the ultimate pairing of voices. AnonymousI always kinda knew this song had something to do with Keith Whitley, because it said you were no stranger to the rain.from 30809I want Vince Gill's permission to use his song at my death. Here’s Vince Gill performing “Go Rest High On That Mountain” at Carnegie Hall with Allison Krauss and Ricky Skaggs. The song won the Country Music Association Awards’ Song of the Year in 1996 and a BMI Most-Performed Song award in 1997. I am hardly alone in thinking “Go Rest High On That Mountain” is gorgeous. They are each beautiful vocalists and together they are magic. It is the sixth single from Gill’s album “When Love Finds You.” On the album, Patty Loveless and Ricky Skaggs sing “Go Rest High On That Mountain” with Gill. It sounds like an old standard, and there are breathtaking vocals in three part harmony. “Go Rest High On That Mountain” is absolutely stunning. No matter what happens after we die (and I don’t personally hold any core beliefs around what does happen) if someone sings about resting on a mountain in a voice as angelic as Vince Gill’s, it’s going to move me. I am explicitly not a Christian, but find that I don’t have to resonate with the spiritual specifics of a song like this in order to find them deeply moving. The lyrics are explicitly Christian, as they imagines a resting place in heaven with the “Father and the Son” at the end. The lyrics speak to someone who had a difficult life, wrestled with demons and faced existential isolation. He finished it a few years later, when Bob passed away in 1993 of a heart attack. Gill began composing the tune after the death of Whitley, who died in 1989 from complications of alcoholism. “Go Rest High On That Mountain” is a eulogic ballad that was actually inspired by the deaths of two people: Gill’s older brother Bob and country music star Keith Whitley. There is both deep sadness in Vince Gill’s vocals, and also the peace that comes with the acceptance of sadness - when you’ve moved through the initial explosion of heartbreak and you’re quiet and reflective in the wake of it, gently holding the pieces of your broken heart in your hands. Listening to “Go Rest High On that Mountain” feels like being invited into a moment of reconciling with loss. It’s the tone of uncomplicated grief, when the storm has passed and there is no more anxiety and tumult there is just sitting with loss. But I’m grateful that people use it in their toughest times.”Īnd the song does have a sort of achingly peaceful quality to it. This song has brought and awful lot of peace to an awful lot of people over the years, and I had no idea that it would. When Vince Gill, accompanied by Allison Krauss and Ricky Skaggs, performed “Go Rest High On That Mountain” at Carnegie Hall, the artist stepped up to the mic to introduce the tune, saying “This is a song I wrote about my brother after he passed away some years back.
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