Pretty Little Adriana

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"Pretty Little Adriana"
Vince Gill - Pretty Little Adriana single.png
Single by Vince Gill
from the album High Lonesome Sound
B-side "Tell Me Lover"
ReleasedOctober 28, 1996
Genre Country
Length3:30
Label MCA Nashville
Songwriter(s) Vince Gill
Producer(s) Tony Brown
Vince Gill singles chronology
"Worlds Apart"
(1996)		"Pretty Little Adriana"
(1996)		"A Little More Love"
(1997)

"Pretty Little Adriana" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Vince Gill. It was released in October 1996 as the third single from the album High Lonesome Sound . The song reached number 2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart, behind Brooks & Dunn's "A Man This Lonely" and it won Gill a Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance. [1]

Contents

Content

The song is about the death of a child as seen from the parents' perspective. Gill was inspired to write the song after reading a news story about a 12-year-old girl named Adriane Dickerson who was shot to death outside a Nashville supermarket in 1995. [2]

Cover versions

Country music singer Luke Combs covered the song from the television special CMT Giants: Vince Gill

Critical reception

Deborah Evans Price, of Billboard magazine gave the song a mixed review, calling it "a little lackluster" and saying that not every song can be an "I Still Believe in You" or a "Go Rest High on That Mountain." However, she goes on to say that the song boasts "tasty guitar work, a pretty melody, and, of course, Gill's signature vocals." [3]

Chart performance

"Pretty Little Adriana" debuted at number 63 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of November 9, 1996.

Chart (1996–1997)Peak
position
Canada Country Tracks ( RPM ) [4] 3
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [5] 2

Year-end charts

Chart (1997)Position
Canada Country Tracks ( RPM ) [6] 31
US Country Songs ( Billboard ) [7] 31

References

  1. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. pp. 159–160. ISBN   978-0-89820-177-2.
  2. ↑ "Vince writes musical tribute for Adriane". The Tennessean. January 17, 1997. pp. 3A. Retrieved April 24, 2021.
  3. ↑ Billboard , November 2, 1996
  4. ↑ "Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 9883." RPM . Library and Archives Canada. February 17, 1997. Retrieved July 17, 2013.
  5. ↑ "Vince Gill Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
  6. ↑ "RPM Top 100 Country Tracks of 1997". RPM . December 15, 1997. Retrieved July 17, 2013.
  7. ↑ "Best of 1997: Country Songs". Billboard . Prometheus Global Media. 1997. Retrieved July 17, 2013.


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