Wilson Fairchild Revives a Statler Brothers Classic With Heart, Heritage, and Harmony
When Wilson Fairchild — the country duo made up of cousins Wil and Langdon Reid — stepped into the studio to record “I’ll Go to My Grave Loving You,” they weren’t chasing nostalgia. They were coming home.
First recorded in 1975 by The Statler Brothers — the group that included their fathers, Harold and Don Reid — the song isn’t just a country classic. It’s a family heirloom. A thread sewn through time. A melody passed from father to son, from one generation of storytellers to the next.
For Wil and Langdon, this wasn’t just about revisiting a hit. It was about carrying the torch forward, with reverence and resolve.
“We didn’t want to just sing it,” Langdon said. “We wanted to live in it. To feel what they felt when they sang it the first time.”
And they did.
Their version doesn’t try to outshine the original — it leans into its warmth, its simplicity, its sincerity. The arrangement is familiar, but the voices are new — shaped by different years, different miles, but the same heart.
When Wil’s voice hits the opening line, you can almost hear the echoes of his father Harold’s deep baritone. When Langdon joins in harmony, the spirit of Don Reid’s storytelling lingers. It’s not mimicry. It’s memory.
More than a recording, the project became a quiet pilgrimage — back to their roots, back to the music that raised them, and back to the men who taught them not just how to sing, but how to mean it.
Growing up, Wil and Langdon didn’t just hear the songs from vinyl records. They heard them backstage, in tour buses, around kitchen tables. They watched The Statler Brothers write, rehearse, and walk onto stages with humility and humor. They saw the hard work behind the harmony, the grace behind the gold records. And they learned.
Now, as Wilson Fairchild, they aren’t trying to recreate the past. They’re extending it — lovingly, faithfully, and in their own voice.
“I’ll Go to My Grave Loving You” is more than a track. It’s a thank-you letter. A promise. A way of saying, ‘We’re still here. We’re still singing.’
And as their voices rise together in the final chorus, one can’t help but feel that this isn’t just a family honoring its legacy — it’s a legacy still very much alive, breathing through the music, and waiting to be passed down again someday.
In the end, Wil and Langdon didn’t just cover a song.
They came full circle — and brought us with them.
