"Gill's latest studio LP, Okie, his first in three years, is yet another bullet point to fit under the "He Didn't Have to Do This But He Did Anyway" section of his bio. It's an intensely personal collection of songs, and it happens to be a sterling one at that. As is the case with other master songwriters, such as Jason Isbell and Hayes Carll, Gill uses some songs to intimately tell his own story while some songs are colorful tales of fiction ... Vince Gill certainly didn't have to record Okie for us to know he's one of the greats. But because he did, we now know his more intimately than we ever have before".