Prior to Gill and Underwood’s performance, both spoke about their friendship with Dickens, with Underwood sharing a touching story of how he would always greet her with a kiss of her hand.
He performed the spiritual at the funeral of George Jones as well, on the very same stage in 2013, with help from Patty Loveless. Stream Go Rest High On That Mountain Vince Gill Carrie Underwood at Little Jimmy Dickens Memorial Service by Maddkat57 on desktop and mobile.
With photos of the charismatic country-music ambassador flanking the Opry stage, artists from Brad Paisley to Old Crow Medicine Show took turns remembering Dickens and singing in his honor.Ĭarrie Underwood and Vince Gill provided the most emotional moment of the morning with a duet on Gill’s “Go Rest High on That Mountain.” The 1995 ballad has become “the most used funeral song in the country,” Gill told Rolling Stone Country with amazement last June. Carrie Underwood's powerful and soulful vocals are chill-inducing in this throwback performance of 'How Great Thou Art' with Vince Gill. The life of Little Jimmy Dickens, the small-statured Grand Ole Opry star who died January 2nd, was celebrated yesterday during a memorial service at Dickens’ home away from home: the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville. *This video has since been removed, per request of the Grand Ole Opry.
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