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Sara Evans joined late legend Dan Seals on a duet version of “a song that has lived on for decades.”
Evans performs “Nights Are Forever Without You” alongside Seals, a member of the Texas Heritage Songwriters Hall of Fame whose impact on music spans decades and genres. Seals was born in February 1948 in McCamey, Texas. He died of Mantle cell lymphoma in 2009 in Nashville, Tennessee. He was 61. Seals was performing in the duo England Dan & John Ford Coley when he released “Nights Are Forever Without You” in October 1976. A post on the late singer-songwriter’s Instagram account announcing the new version with Evans hails it “a song that has lived on for decades.”
Evans’ duet with the late legend is the latest to arrive from an upcoming Kyle Lehning-produced album, The Last Duet, which the Dan Seals Estate announced on Friday morning. Previous duets that stirred anticipation for the project include Luke Bryan’s “Everything That Glitters (Is Not Gold),” Jamey Johnson’s “Three Time Loser,” and Jasmine Amy Rogers’ “My Baby’s Got Good Timing.”
The Last Duet Tracklist:
1. “Big Wheels In The Moonlight” - Blake Shelton
2. “God Must Be A Cowboy” - Ned LeDoux
3. “Nights Are Forever Without You” - Sara Evans
4. “Bop” - Tanya Tucker
5. “You Still Move Me” - Marie Osmond
6. “Everything That Glitters (Is Not Gold)” - Luke Bryan
7. “The Healing Kind” - Katharine McPhee
8. “Wood” - John Berry
9. “I’d Really Love To See You Tonight (50th Anniversary Edition)” - John Ford Coley
10. “Love Is The Answer” - Jackie Evancho
11. “Addicted” - The Castellows
12. “Love On Arrival” - Wendy Moten
13. “One Friend” - Lynda Carter
14. “Three Time Loser” - Jamey Johnson
15. “My Baby’s Got Good Timing” - Jasmine Amy Rogers
16. “Steel Reelin' (From Those Rock & Roll Days)” - Alabama
“Dan was always true: as a singer, as an artist and as a man,” award-winning producer Lehning said in a statement. “Seeing the way all of these artists responded when they had Dan’s voice in their ears shows how that warm truth in his voice still touches people in the best way. The song ‘Still Reelin’’ was Dan reflecting on the effect that Elvis and the early rock n’ rollers had on him as a child, it’s nice to see that people are ‘still reelin’’ from his music today.”
The Last Duet will release on August 28. Listen to the new version of “Nights Are Forever Without You” with Evans here: