Go Rest High on That Mountain

Gill wrote and sang it, with Tony Brown producing; it was the sixth single from When Love Finds You, released on August 28, 1995 with "Maybe Tonight" on the B-side, 5:15 on the album and 4:27 as a radio edit, in D major at a slow tempo. Gill began the song after Keith Whitley died in 1989, then shelved it, and finished it in 1993. He has said he was not going to record it, and Brown insisted: you have to record this song. The players were Gill on lead vocal and electric guitar, Patty Loveless and Ricky Skaggs on backing vocals, Stuart Duncan on fiddle, John Hughey on steel, Randy Scruggs on acoustic guitar, Steuart Smith on electric guitar, Michael Rhodes on bass, Carlos Vega on drums and Pete Wasner on keyboards. John Lloyd Miller directed the video, filmed at the Ryman Auditorium.

It peaked at 14 on the US country chart and seven in Canada, has sold 857,000 digital copies as of November 2019 and is certified two-times platinum. It won the CMA song of the year in 1996 and two Grammys, for best male country vocal performance and best country song, at the 38th ceremony, and BMI named it the most-performed song of 1997. CMT ranked it 60th of the 100 greatest songs of country music in 2003, and the Library of Congress selected it for the National Recording Registry in 2026. Gill sang it with Patty Loveless at George Jones's funeral on May 2, 2013, and added a third verse in December 2019. Carrie Underwood sang it on a CMT Giants special. We could not get a setlist.fm count, and do not know which version our upload is.