"Gone Long Gone" is a song written and recorded by Canadian

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Jason Benoit Jason Benoit is a country music singer-songwriter from Fox Island River, in western Newfoundland. Benoit began pursuing his professional music career in 2013. His first single was a country rendition of the Armin van Buuren and Trevor Guthrie ...

. The track was produced by David Thomson, Gabriel Gallucci, and Max River. It was the second single off Benoit's debut studio album ''Waves''.

Background

Benoit was writing a post on

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when he realized he could turn the words he had written into the opening line of a song. He wrote the song by himself at home in

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. Benoit remarked that the process from writing the tweet to recording the full track took approximately eight months as both

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and his manager believed it would be a great follow-up to his previous single "Crazy Kinda Love".

Commercial performance

"Gone Long Gone" reached a peak of number seven on the ''

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'' Canada Country chart for the week of July 18, 2015, marking Benoit's first career top ten hit. It also peaked at number 78 on the

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for the week of August 1, 2015, and was Benoit's first career entry on that chart. The song has been certified Gold by

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