Still Do (Anne Wilson & Cole Swindell)

“Still Do” first appeared on Anne Wilson’s third album, Stars, released October 17, 2025, co-written by Wilson with Jeff Pardo, Matthew West, and Trannie Anderson. Its second life started on social media: Wilson posted a raw piano rendition, and Cole Swindell found it in the comments and proposed a collaboration. The duet arrived March 6, 2026, with the two singers trading verses and sharing the second chorus. It is nominated for Country/Roots Recorded Song of the Year at the 57th GMA Dove Awards.

The song’s subject is the prodigal’s return: estrangement from faith, personal failure, and the hope that God’s love hasn’t changed since. Wilson’s own explanation is that “no matter how much life changes – or how many doubts we walk through – God’s faithfulness never changes.” Swindell, who said the song “has really resonated with where I am at in life right now,” is a shrewd choice of second voice: a mainstream country star lending the song a second perspective and a bridge to country radio, and the personal connection he describes is the kind of thing a duet like this needs to feel like more than a booking.

The reimagining trades some of the original’s intimacy for reach. A raw piano-and-voice performance is the natural home for a lyric this direct, and the duet’s real change is structural – traded verses and a shared second chorus, which turn one person’s confession into something closer to a conversation. Its weakness is that the addition is a voice, not a rethink: the melody and message are the same one Wilson recorded in 2025, and the pairing does more for the song’s audience than for its meaning.

7.4/10 – a sturdy, well-constructed country-gospel duet whose second voice adds warmth, not a new argument.

Hero image: “Still Do” single artwork, Anne Wilson and Cole Swindell. Used under fair use for editorial commentary.