In a February 2026 interview with The New York Post, Oates, 77, opened up about his concert run with the Good Road that recently kicked off in Nashville. The music legend, who split from his Hall & Oates partner in 2024, teased that he’ll play “everything from the earliest days of rock to the folk era to early sixties R&B” to give fans “an idea of who I am and why I am who I am.”
“I don’t think I’ve ever played a show, whether with Daryl or solo, where I haven’t played ‘She’s Gone,'” he shared. “I feel like I have to play that song, but I love having to have to play that song if you know what I mean.”
The song was inspired by a girl Oates met at a diner
Oates once revealed the origins of “She’s Gone. In an interview with Grantland, the songwriter explained that he “met this girl at three in the morning in a soul food restaurant in the Village called the Pink Teacup.”
“We saw each other a few times, and then I asked her if she wanted to hang out on New Year’s Eve, and she said yes,” he continued. “She was supposed to come to my apartment and meet me, and she never showed up. As it was getting toward midnight, I finally realized that she wasn’t coming, and I just sat down with my guitar and started writing this almost, like, folk song. All it said was ‘She’s gone, oh oh oh, she’s gone’ and ‘What went wrong?’ It was really very simple.”
“He had gone through a breakup of his own,” Oates told American Songwriter of his former bandmate in 2021. “So, he and I sat down, and we kind of pooled our sorrowful resources, so to speak. We began to write. He came up with the idea for the verse. We just pulled my chorus and his verse together.”
“It has such a profound importance in the scheme of all the other records we made,” he said. “Without this song, we might not have had a career. Making money and chart positions are not that important to me. It’s great, a great thing, it’s fabulous and all that, but really, what’s really important to me is to have written something that has stood the test of time.”
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