Keith Whitley or Alison Krauss & Union Station, “When You Say Nothing At All”
Thursday, September 25th, 2008
When You Say Nothing At All
Keith Whitley or Alison Krauss & Union Station
1988/1995
Written by Paul Overstreet & Don Schlitz
Sometimes, silence says it best.
With “When You Say Nothing at All,” written by Paul Overstreet and Don Schlitz, the magic is in the calm and the quiet. The song was a poetic ode to the desperately devoted, and countless people connected with the simple song of love’s mysterious ways. In the narrator’s view, love is often at its most powerful when no words are needed, and even the wordsmith Webster couldn’t define the divine emotion. The song’s multiple readings have resulted in uniquely different takes on the graceful lyric. The two most notable recordings sprung from a troubled singer whose music continues to impact audiences twenty years after his death, and a pure vocalist whose heavenly strains have enraptured country and bluegrass devotees for almost two decades.
Category Classic Country Singles
Tags: Alison Krauss, Keith Whitley, Union Station
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