GRAMMY Award-winning MCA Nashville country star Vince Gill announced that his new album, Okie, will be released on August 23. Gill wrote or co-wrote all 12 songs on Okie. 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.

• 1. I Don't Wanna Ride the Rails No More
• 2. The Price of Regret
• 3. Forever Changed
• 4. An Honest Man
• 5. What Choice Will You Make
• 6. Black and White
• 7. The Red Words
• 8. When My Amy Prays
• 9. A Letter To My Mama
• 10. Nothin' Like a Guy Clark Song
• 11. That Old Man of Mine
• 12. A World Without Haggard