"How Long Gone" is a song written by Shawn Camp and

John Scott Sherrill John Scott Sherrill is an American songwriter whose work is primarily in the field of country music. His brother, Donn Sherrill, was a Vanderbilt student. He introduced John Scott to his fraternity brother, Scott Siman who recorded demos of his m ...

and recorded by American

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duo

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. It was released in June 1998 as the second single from their 1998 album ''

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''. The song reached number one on the US ''

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(now

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) chart in September 1998.

Music video

The music video was directed by

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. The video starts out with a woman running out of the house, then with the duo playing while spinning around the house with everything rotting, and clocks with their hands turning quickly. At the end, the duo fades away into dust particles, and the house appears to have rotted out, and the pages on the calendar that was flipping throughout the video are all gone.

Cover versions

Country music singer

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covered the song from The Last Rodeo Tour

Chart positions

"How Long Gone" debuted at number 70 on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of June 29, 1998.

Year-end charts

References

1998 singles 1998 songs Brooks & Dunn songs Songs written by Shawn Camp (musician) Songs written by John Scott Sherrill Song recordings produced by Don Cook Music videos directed by Steven Goldmann Arista Nashville singles {{1998-country-song-stub