In a new episode of Vevo Footnotes, the country legend shares behind-the-scenes stories from the making of her haunting 1991 hit “The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia,” revealing how she stumbled upon the song, what it took to film the cinematic video, and why the whole experience “felt like a sign.”
McEntire explains that she and producer Tony Brown were choosing tracks for her For My Broken Heart album when fate quite literally intervened.
Originally written by Bobby Russell — and first made famous by Vicki Lawrence in 1973 — the Southern Gothic murder ballad almost went to other stars first.
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Inside the Video’s Eerie Production
“The biggest thing I learned from doing movies and videos is to be patient. It takes time!” she said.
“To create the prosthetics, I had to have a cast made of my face — like when you go to the dentist and they make impressions of your teeth,” McEntire explained. “Then John would take clay and mold on the cast of my face to make changes to it.”
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A Slow-Burn Fan Favorite
“My version only went to No. 12 on the charts,” Reba said, “but it’s become one of my fans’ most favorite songs of my career.”
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