When the Stars Go Blue - wikipedia When the Stars Go Blue This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( January 2010 ) `` When The Stars Go Blue '' Song by Ryan Adams from the album Gold Released September 25, 2001 Genre Alternative country alternative rock Length 3 : 31 Label Lost Highway Songwriter ( s ) Ryan Adams Producer ( s ) Ethan Johns Gold track listing Somehow, Someday ( 6 ) `` When The Stars Go Blue '' ( 7 ) Nobody Girl ( 8 ) `` When The Stars Go Blue '' is a popular alternative country song composed and originally performed by solo artist and former Whiskeytown band member Ryan Adams. It was first released with his album Gold on September 25, 2001. The song has been covered by many artists, notably : Celtic band The Corrs featuring U2 's lead singer Bono, country music singer Tim McGraw and Norwegian artists Venke Knutson and Kurt Nilsen as a duo. The song has also been performed live many times by Phil Lesh and Friends. Contents 1 Critical reception 2 Personnel 3 The Corrs version 3.1 Charts 4 Tim McGraw version 4.1 Music video 4.2 Chart performance 4.2. 1 Year - end charts 5 Venke Knutson and Kurt Nilsen version 6 Other versions 7 References 8 External links Critical reception The original recording of `` When the Stars Go Blue '' on the Gold album received little attention by critics due to the timing of the release and Adams ' overwhelmingly large and ranging catalog. The Gold album was released on 25 September 2001, with a lead track called, `` New York, New York '', which became a radio hit in the wake of the attacks on the World Trade Center. In the next year, Adams produced material that could have made up four albums. Critics have been known to be averse to reviewing Adams ' works due to the large quantity and variety of his works. Adams has had numerous attacks for his `` genre hopping '' and has been labeled as `` musically bipolar '' by critics. It was n't until Tim McGraw 's cover that the song got critical attention. When Adams performs `` When the Stars Go Blue '' in concert now, critics note Adams ' `` masterful ballad '' performances, and `` When the Stars Go Blue, '' is the `` most gorgeous ballad on the ( Gold ) album ''. Personnel Ryan Adams - vocals, acoustic guitar Richard Causon - piano Ethan Johns - 12 string guitar, harmonium, electric piano, mandocello, Chamberlain strings, drums Julianna Raye - background vocals The Corrs version `` When The Stars Go Blue '' Single by The Corrs featuring Bono from the album VH1 Presents : The Corrs, Live in Dublin Released March 12, 2002 Genre Folk rock Length 4 : 19 Label 143 / Lava / Atlantic Songwriter ( s ) Ryan Adams Producer ( s ) Mitchell Froom The Corrs featuring Bono singles chronology `` Would You Be Happier ( Live ) '' ( 2002 ) `` When The Stars Go Blue '' ( 2002 ) `` Summer Sunshine '' ( 2004 ) `` Would You Be Happier ( Live ) '' ( 2002 ) `` When the Stars Go Blue '' ( 2002 ) `` Summer Sunshine '' ( 2004 ) The Corrs recorded the song on their album VH1 Presents : The Corrs, Live In Dublin in 2002, featuring U2 's Bono. The song was remixed for their album Dreams : The Ultimate Corrs Collection during 2006, and released as a single in Spain, reaching # 1 at the airplay chart in September. Charts Chart Peak position U.S. Adult Top 40 18 Spanish Airplay Chart Tim McGraw version `` When The Stars Go Blue '' Single by Tim McGraw from the album Greatest Hits Vol. 2 Released March 6, 2006 Genre Country country rock Length 3 : 55 Label Curb Songwriter ( s ) Ryan Adams Producer ( s ) Byron Gallimore Tim McGraw Darran Smith Tim McGraw singles chronology `` My Old Friend '' ( 2005 ) `` When The Stars Go Blue '' ( 2006 ) `` My Little Girl '' ( 2006 ) `` My Old Friend '' ( 2005 ) `` When The Stars Go Blue '' ( 2006 ) `` My Little Girl '' ( 2006 ) Music video `` When the Stars Go Blue '' on YouTube In 2006, the song was released by Tim McGraw as the first single from his album Tim McGraw Reflected : Greatest Hits Vol. 2. Heribert Severing, creator and writer of severing.nu, included McGraw 's version of `` When The Stars Go Blue '' on his list of the top Country singles of 2006. Music video The video was directed by Sherman Halsey. It features McGraw performing in a snowy background surrounded by clusters of pine trees. It was shot in Crivitz, Wisconsin. The video was shot in black - and - white. Throughout the video, several reflections of people can be seen in the trees. In the end of the clip, McGraw starts to walk backwards, turns around, starts to run, then disappears, leaving only a trail of footprints behind. The version of the song in the video is edited to fit into the time of 3 : 19. It was released in April 2006. Chart performance `` When The Stars Go Blue '' debuted at number 35 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs for the week of March 18, 2006. Chart ( 2006 ) Peak position US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) US Billboard Hot 100 37 US Billboard Pop 100 50 US Adult Contemporary ( Billboard ) 12 US Adult Top 40 ( Billboard ) 35 Year - end charts Chart ( 2006 ) Position US Country Songs ( Billboard ) 20 Venke Knutson and Kurt Nilsen version `` When The Stars Go Blue '' Single by Venke Knutson and Kurt Nilsen from the album Places I Have Been Released February 2006 Recorded 2005 Genre Pop Label Universal Songwriter ( s ) Ryan Adams Venke Knutson singles chronology `` Just a Minute '' ( 2006 ) `` When The Stars Go Blue '' ( 2006 ) `` Holiday '' ( 2006 ) `` Just a Minute '' ( 2006 ) `` When The Stars Go Blue '' ( 2006 ) `` Holiday '' ( 2006 ) Kurt Nilsen singles chronology `` Just a Minute '' ( 2005 ) Just a Minute2005 `` When The Stars Go Blue '' ( 2006 ) When The Stars Go Blue2006 `` Push Push '' ( 2006 ) Music video `` When the Stars Go Blue '' on YouTube Push Push2006 The Norwegian artists Venke Knutson and World Idol Kurt Nilsen recorded a duet that appears in Venke Knutson 's album 2005 Places I Have Been. The song was released as a single in Norway in February 2006, reaching # 14 on the Norwegian Singles Chart. Chart ( 2006 ) Peak position Norway ( VG - lista ) 14 Other versions Irish / British girlband Wonderland performed the track for their debut performance on television in Ireland. Both live and studio version is available on YouTube. The recorded studio version was included the band 's debut album Wonderland released in United Kingdom and Ireland on 6 June 2011. It was also featured in One Tree Hill as a hit song by fictional characters Haley James Scott and Chris Keller ( real life singers Bethany Joy Lenz and Tyler Hilton ) and features on the One Tree Hill Soundtrack. Performed by Blake Lewis on American Idol Season 6, originally airing on April 17, 2007. In an interview on that episode of American Idol, Lewis incorrectly attributed the song to Tim McGraw. His cover of the song made it to # 92 of the pop charts in 2007. On July 16, 2006 Phil Lesh covered the song in the first set of a show at Charter One Pavilion in Chicago, IL. The show was made available for purchase via compact disc immediately following the live concert as part of an Instant Live recording series which Phil Lesh & Friends made available to all standard concerts during their Summer 2006 tour. On April 5, 2014 Phil Lesh covered the song in the first set of a show at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York. The show was available for live streaming to fans throughout the world. References Jump up ^ Deming, Mark. `` Biography ''. AllMusic.com. Retrieved 10 April 2012. Jump up ^ `` Ryan Adams -- When the Stars Go Blue ''. mikewentwest. Retrieved 8 April 2012. first1 = missing last1 = in Authors list ( help ) Jump up ^ McGuane, Kenny S. `` Cardinology ''. album reviews. Retrieved 9 April 2012. Jump up ^ Pareles, Jon. `` Wisecracks, Scattered Among Slow Tunes ''. New York Times. Retrieved 8 April 2012. Jump up ^ Orshoski, Wes. Ryan Adams Finds ' Gold ' On Lost Highway. Billboard. Retrieved 8 April 2012. Jump up ^ All Music Jump up ^ > Jump up ^ Severing, Heribert. `` The Greatest Country Single Hits of them all : The Year is 2006 ''. Retrieved 8 April 2012. Jump up ^ `` Tim McGraw -- Chart history '' Billboard Hot Country Songs for Tim McGraw. Jump up ^ `` Tim McGraw -- Chart history '' Billboard Hot 100 for Tim McGraw. Jump up ^ `` Tim McGraw -- Chart history '' Billboard Adult Contemporary for Tim McGraw. Jump up ^ `` Tim McGraw -- Chart history '' Billboard Adult Pop Songs for Tim McGraw. Jump up ^ `` Best of 2006 : Country Songs ''. Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 2006. Retrieved July 10, 2012. Jump up ^ aCharts.us : Venke Knutson and Kurt Nilsen 's `` When the Stars Go Blue '' page Jump up ^ `` Norwegiancharts.com -- Venke Knutson and Kurt Nilsen -- When The Stars Go Blue ''. VG - lista. Jump up ^ `` One Tree Hill Music ''. Official Soundtracks. Jump up ^ Lamb, Bill. `` When the Stars Go Blue ''. American Idol Season 6 - The Songs. About.com - The New York Times Company. Retrieved 25 March 2012. Jump up ^ Lamb, Bill. `` American Idols on the Charts - A Complete Record ''. About.com - The New York Times Company. Retrieved 25 March 2012. External links Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics Ryan Adams Studio albums Heartbreaker Gold Demolition Rock n Roll Love Is Hell Cold Roses Jacksonville City Nights 29 Easy Tiger Cardinology Orion III / IV Ashes & Fire Ryan Adams Prisoner EPs Love Is Hell ( pt. 1 ) Love Is Hell ( pt. 2 ) Follow the Lights Class Mythology 1984 Live albums Live After Deaf Live at Carnegie Hall Ten Songs from Live at Carnegie Hall Singles `` New York, New York '' `` When the Stars Go Blue '' `` Answering Bell '' `` Nuclear '' `` This Is It '' `` So Alive '' `` Wonderwall '' `` Empty Room / Nutshell '' `` Lucky Now '' `` Bad Blood '' Whiskeytown Faithless Street Strangers Almanac Pneumonia The Finger We Are Fuck You Books Infinity Blues Hello Sunshine Ryan Adams & the Cardinals : A View of Other Windows Related articles Discography PAX AM Whiskeytown The Cardinals The Finger Pornography 20 : 20 Tim McGraw singles Discography Not a Moment Too Soon `` Indian Outlaw '' `` Do n't Take the Girl '' `` Down on the Farm '' `` Not a Moment Too Soon '' `` Refried Dreams '' All I Want `` I Like It, I Love It '' `` Ca n't Be Really Gone '' `` All I Want Is a Life '' `` She Never Lets It Go to Her Heart '' `` Maybe We Should Just Sleep on It '' Everywhere `` It 's Your Love '' ( with Faith Hill ) `` Everywhere '' `` Just to See You Smile '' `` One of These Days '' `` Where the Green Grass Grows '' `` For a Little While '' A Place in the Sun `` Please Remember Me '' `` Something Like That '' `` My Best Friend '' `` Some Things Never Change '' `` My Next Thirty Years '' Set This Circus Down `` Grown Men Do n't Cry '' `` Angry All the Time '' `` The Cowboy in Me '' `` Unbroken '' Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors `` Red Rag Top '' `` Tiny Dancer '' `` She 's My Kind of Rain '' `` Real Good Man '' `` Watch the Wind Blow By '' Live Like You Were Dying `` Live Like You Were Dying '' `` Back When '' `` Drugs or Jesus '' `` Do You Want Fries with That '' `` My Old Friend '' Reflected : Greatest Hits Vol. 2 `` When the Stars Go Blue '' `` My Little Girl '' Let It Go `` Last Dollar ( Fly Away ) '' `` I Need You '' ( with Faith Hill ) `` If You 're Reading This '' `` Suspicions '' `` Kristofferson '' `` Let It Go '' `` Nothin ' to Die For '' Southern Voice `` It 's a Business Doing Pleasure with You '' `` Southern Voice '' `` Still '' Number One Hits `` Felt Good on My Lips '' Country Strong `` Me and Tennessee '' ( with Gwyneth Paltrow ) Emotional Traffic `` Better Than I Used to Be '' Two Lanes of Freedom `` Truck Yeah '' `` One of Those Nights '' `` Highway Do n't Care '' ( with Taylor Swift and Keith Urban ) `` Southern Girl '' Sundown Heaven Town `` Lookin ' for That Girl '' `` Meanwhile Back at Mama 's '' ( with Faith Hill ) `` Shotgun Rider '' `` Diamond Rings and Old Barstools '' ( with Catherine Dunn ) Damn Country Music `` Top of the World '' `` Humble and Kind '' `` How I 'll Always Be '' TBD `` Speak to a Girl '' ( with Faith Hill ) Guest singles `` Just to Hear You Say That You Love Me '' ( with Faith Hill ) `` Let 's Make Love '' ( with Faith Hill ) `` Bring On the Rain '' ( with Jo Dee Messina ) `` Over and Over '' ( with Nelly ) `` Like We Never Loved at All '' ( with Faith Hill ) `` Find Out Who Your Friends Are '' ( with Tracy Lawrence and Kenny Chesney ) `` Nine Lives '' ( with Def Leppard ) `` Feel Like a Rock Star '' ( with Kenny Chesney ) `` Lovin ' Lately '' ( with Big & Rich ) `` May We All '' ( with Florida Georgia Line ) Other songs `` City Lights '' `` The Ride '' The Corrs Andrea Caroline Sharon Jim Studio albums Forgiven, Not Forgotten Talk on Corners In Blue Borrowed Heaven Home White Light Jupiter Calling Compilation and remix albums Best of The Corrs Dreams : The Ultimate Corrs Collection The Works Live albums Live Unplugged VH1 Presents : The Corrs Live in Dublin Singles `` Runaway '' `` Forgiven, Not Forgotten '' `` The Right Time '' `` Love to Love You '' `` Closer '' `` Only When I Sleep '' `` I Never Loved You Anyway '' `` What Can I Do '' `` Dreams '' `` What Can I Do ( Remix ) '' `` So Young '' `` Runaway ( Remix ) '' `` Radio '' `` Old Town '' `` Breathless '' `` Irresistible '' `` Give Me a Reason '' `` All the Love in the World '' `` Would You Be Happier ? '' `` When The Stars Go Blue '' `` Summer Sunshine '' `` Angel '' `` Long Night '' `` Heart Like a Wheel / Old Town '' `` Goodbye '' `` Bring on the Night '' `` I Do What I Like '' Guest singles `` I Know My Love '' Other songs `` Lifting Me '' `` Rebel Heart '' Videography `` The Corrs : Live at the Royal Albert Hall '' `` The Corrs : Live at Lansdowne Road '' `` Unplugged '' Concert tours Forgiven, Not Forgotten Tour Talk on Corners Tour In Blue Tour Borrowed Heaven Tour The Corrs : In Concert White Light Tour Related articles Discography Awards Ten Feet High Dream of You Lifelines The Same Sun Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=When_the_Stars_Go_Blue&oldid=772996832 '' Categories : 2001 songs 2002 singles 2006 singles Ryan Adams songs Tim McGraw songs The Corrs songs Song recordings produced by Byron Gallimore Pop ballads Rock ballads Country ballads Curb Records singles Music videos directed by Sherman Halsey Song recordings produced by Mitchell Froom Songs written by Ryan Adams Hidden categories : CS1 errors : missing author or editor Articles needing additional references from January 2010 All articles needing additional references Articles with hAudio microformats Singlechart usages for Billboardcountrysongs Singlechart called without song Singlechart usages for Billboardhot100 Singlechart usages for Billboardadultcontemporary Singlechart usages for Billboardadultpopsongs Music infoboxes with malformed table placement Music infoboxes with deprecated parameters Singlechart usages for Norway Talk Contents About Wikipedia Dansk Español Edit links This page was last edited on 30 March 2017, at 17 : 01. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia ® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. About Wikipedia

Question: who sings the original when the stars go blue
Answer: Ryan Adams