49 Winchester released their long-awaited album Leavin’ This Holler back in August. The 10-track collection found favor with critics and fans alike. Most who listened to the project knew something was missing from the tracklist. Today (December 13), the band released what would have been the album’s 11th track ahead of its placement on Yellowstone. Listen to “Miles to Go” below.
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“Miles to Go” won’t just be on streaming platforms. It will appear on the series finale of Yellowstone Sunday (December 15) night. 49 Winchester’s music has appeared on the show multiple times with “Make It Count” showing up in the December 8 episode. Now, they’ll be able to say that they helped to send the beloved TV show off with more great tunes.
49 Winchester’s Isaac Discusses “Miles to Go”
49 Winchester frontman Isaac Gibson revealed the story behind “Miles to Go” and why it didn’t make Leavin’ This Holler in a press release. “Sometimes a song just writes itself, and this was one of those songs. I wrote it between cities, somewhere on some distant stretch of interstate, in a matter of a couple of minutes,” he recalled. “It’s a leaving song, which seems to have been a big theme on our new album. It was initially a part of Leavin’ This Holler, but it wound up being left off for the record to fit on vinyl,” he added. Fortunately, the freedom of streaming platforms allows fans to hear this song now. Better late than never, as they say.
Gibson also talked about the song’s placement on the final episode of Yellowstone. “For me, there is no better way to debut it than in the final season of Yellowstone,” he said. “It’s always such an honor to have the art and sounds that you’ve created put on display in television and film, and Taylor Sheridan has given us, and so many other off-the-centerline country acts, a great platform to do that,” he added.
Yellowstone has featured several independent and up-and-coming country and Americana artists throughout its five-season run. Now that the saga of the Dutton family is coming to an end, 49 Winchester and a handful of other top-tier artists will provide the music to give the beloved series a proper sendoff.
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