The Knoxville-based country-rock studio project The Providers and Friends, led by longtime songwriting partners Les “Doc” Cunningham and Audie Smith, just released their cover of “Silver Threads and Golden Needles” — and it is out now on all major streaming platforms.

Logan Brill carries the lead vocals — Cunningham’s stepdaughter and a Nashville singer-songwriter with a decade of industry experience — supported by Amanda Smith on fiddle and Travis Toy on pedal steel.

The release is the latest chapter in a project built entirely around creative trust. Cunningham and Smith’s partnership spans more than thirty years, and that history runs deeper than co-writing credits. From the beginning, their collaboration has made room for vulnerability — the kind that turns a personal experience into a song worth recording. That foundation is what makes The Providers and Friends work, and it shows in every choice they make, including this one.

Written by Dick Reynolds and Jack Rhodes and first recorded by Wanda Jackson, “Silver Threads and Golden Needles” has been a country touchstone since 1956. Linda Ronstadt‘s early 1970s country-rock rendition gave it a second life — and it is precisely that version The Providers and Friends used as their reference point. This recording was always about honoring something that already worked.

The song was recorded and produced by Travis Wyrick and The Providers at Lakeside Studio in Knoxville, with additional sessions at Smithworks Studio in Boston and Nashville, and mixed and mastered by Kevin McCombs at Midnight Oil Studio in Los Angeles.

“I am extremely proud of all of these recordings,” Cunningham said in a statement. “They were the very definition of the ‘friends’ part of our name.”

“Silver Threads and Golden Needles” is out now on all major streaming platforms.