“Our Last Goodbye” appears on a 2005 Kenny and Amanda Smith Band album, the version associated with this entry. Kenny Smith was the longtime guitarist and harmony singer for the Lonesome River Band before forming the Kenny and Amanda Smith Band with his wife in 2002; Amanda Smith’s lead vocal anchored the project as one of the more distinctive contemporary-traditional bluegrass acts of the mid-2000s.
The song was written by Carter Stanley, drawing on the mournful parting-and-farewell lyric tradition that defined much of the Stanley Brothers’ most enduring original material. The song’s authorship is not consistently documented in the publicly available discographic sources for this particular track. The KASB catalogue mixes Kenny-Smith-circle songwriters, contributions from Amanda’s writing, and outside material in the harder-traditional vein; the Rebel CD liner notes are the firmest reference for the writer attribution.
The lyric is a final-farewell text: the narrator and her partner have reached the point where there is nothing left to say, and the goodbye stands as the one act of dignity left in the relationship’s collapse. Amanda Smith’s lead vocal carries the lyric’s quiet finality without overplaying it, and the band’s tight contemporary-traditional arrangement gives the recording its emotional centre. It works as a moderate-tempo vocal feature in G with a clear chorus harmony slot.
