The three singers with Georgia roots launch a model of Croce’s 1972 tune “Walkin’ Again to Georgia” to boost funds for music training
Final Could, Butch Walker, Elizabeth Cook dinner, and Katie Pruitt — all of them with Georgia roots — carried out Jim Croce’s “Walkin’ Again to Georgia” at a Nashville profit live performance for the Georgia Music Basis. The one-time-only collab went over so nicely that later this summer season, the trio rendezvoused at Walker’s Tennessee studio to file. “Walkin’ Again to Georgia” arrives at this time on New West Information.
“My mother and father used to hearken to Jim Croce on a regular basis in the home and I spotted how they might all the time play ‘Walkin Again to Georgia’ on summer season days after we had been residing in Cartersville,” Walker says. “It introduced a rush of recollections again, and after we had been on the brink of soundcheck I hit up Katie and Elizabeth and requested in the event that they knew the tune. For sure, they mentioned ‘Sure!’ and we had been off and working. We thought it went over very well, so all of us agreed that recording a model of it for the trigger was the appropriate factor to do.”
All proceeds from the recording will profit the Georgia Music Basis, the non-profit that helps music teaching programs within the Peach State. Walker is from Cartersville, Pruitt hails from Atlanta, and Cook dinner, whereas born in Florida, went to highschool in Georgia. “The Georgia public college system modified my life,” Cook dinner says, “and I hope they’ll preserve music in colleges as a result of music is the artwork of every part.”
Walker, who launched his new solo album Glenn earlier this 12 months, produced Cook dinner’s 2020 album Aftermath, which RS named the No. 2 greatest nation album of that 12 months. Pruitt’s album Expectations, additionally launched in 2020, was No. 3.
“Walkin’ Again to Georgia” first appeared on Croce’s 1972 album You Don’t Mess Round With Jim.