Rhonda Vincent - One Step Ahead
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Track List: One Step Ahead
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- Kentucky BorderlineDownload & Buy
- You Can't Take It With You When You GoDownload & Buy
- One Step Ahead Of The BluesDownload & Buy
- Caught In The CrossfireDownload & Buy
- Ridin' The Red LineDownload & Buy
- Pathway Of TeardropsDownload & Buy
- An Old Memory Found It's Way BackDownload & Buy
- Missouri MoonDownload & Buy
- Walking My Lord Up Calvary's HillDownload & Buy
- Fishers Of MenDownload & Buy
- Frankie BelleDownload & Buy
- The Martha White SongDownload & Buy
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Album Details: One Step Ahead
- Release Date:
- 04/29/2003
- Label:
- Rounder / Umgd
- UPC:
- 011661049727
User Reviews: One Step Ahead
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, May 5, 2003Reviewer: walleyeguy542002 - See all walleyeguy542002's reviewsThis is real music played by real musicians. -
A big hug for this album!
, May 4, 2003Reviewer:
Joe Ross - See all Joe Ross's reviews Rhonda Vincent hails from Missouri where she grew up performing with her family band, The Sally Mountain Show. She began singing professionally at age five in 1967 on her familys weekly TV show. At that same young age, she began playing mandolin, and she can now play all the bluegrass instruments. This Missouri state fiddle champ recorded eleven albums with the Sally Mountain Show and six solo albums before age 30. For over a decade (about 1985-98), she was involved in the country music scene, performing with Grand Ole Opry Star Jim Ed Brown and recording two projects for Giant Records. In 1998, she returned to her bluegrass roots when she formed Rhonda Vincent and the Rage. The following year, Rhonda performed on Dolly Partons award-winning album The Grass is Blue. Rhonda then released bluegrass albums Back Home Again and The Storm Still Rages. Rhonda was three times the IBMA Female Vocalist of the Year (2000-2002). In 2001, she won the IBMA Entertainer of the Year Award, and in 2002, she was inducted into the George D. Hay Country Music Hall of Fame in Arkansas.
When Rhonda Vincent came to that fateful fork in the road in 1998, she made the right choice to take the high, lonesome road - the one shed traveled many times before called bluegrass lane. Now, I believe that shes has found her true musical home and niche as her stardom continues to build. She once commented that she had taken charge of the music she was playing. One Step Ahead showcases a confident, seasoned and committed artist with a great deal of talent and business savy. Her brother, Darrin Vincent, sings soaring harmonies on the album. Stuart Duncan, Aubrey Haynie and Bryan Sutton are sterling session musicians who also assist. However, their flashy melodic licks never steal the spotlight from Rhondas soprano.
The banjo kicks the opening cut of Vincents original Kentucky Borderline which has the band driving for a bluegrass state of mind. Contemplative acoustic country is the best way of describing You Cant Take It With You When You Go. The albums bluesy title cut is a Rhonda Vincent composition with a theme that is commonplace in bluegrass music. The story of a child experiencing the divorce of parents is told in Caught in the Crossfire. A truckers song, Ridin the Red Line, is a homecoming song of pedal to the metal. Twin fiddles and vocal harmony are the strengths of the lovely waltz Pathway of Teardrops. Things you cant even see sometimes reappear even after throwing away old love letter and photos in An Old Memory Found Its Way Back. Nostalgically singing of love back home, Vincents rendition of Missouri Moon is acoustic country at its best. A moderate waltz-time is imparted to Wilma Lee Coopers gospel standard, Walking My Lord Up Calvarys Hill. The bands a cappella gospel quartet is nicely blended on Fishers of Men. The albums solid all-instrumental offering, Frankie Belle, showcases the bands adroit picking with fiddle prodigy Molly Cherryholmes.
The album closes with a 25-second version of the Martha White Song, a tribute to her tour sponsor who has saluted Rhonda as one of the companys Legends of American Music.
The bottomline is that Rhonda Vincent has created a long-term vision for her music. Shes shared her view with others, assembled a band, and has translated her strategic thinking into action. This album clearly shows that she recognizes her major strengths lie in bluegrass. Shes a top-notch artist who is very easy to embrace. In fact, Id like to give her a big hug for this latest project. One Step Ahead maintains that same focus and intensity of her highly-acclaimed bluegrass projects that have gone before. (Joe Ross, staff writer, Bluegrass Now) ...
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Pro Reviews: One Step Ahead
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews Rhonda Vincent has so adeptly incorporated the sparkling production of the best contemporary bluegrass recordings with the heartfelt songwriting and passionate playing of the classic era of traditional bluegrass that her third album for Rounder hits that almost perfect balance: updated enough to not sound stuffy, but faithful enough to still sound honest. The leadoff track, "Kentucky Borderline," is an ol' fashioned train song along the lines of "Orange Blossom Special" or "Wabash Cannonball," and the title track (a duet with guest vocalist Alison Krauss) takes reverent cues from the Del McCoury Band in its tight harmonies and laid-back, bluesy solos. In context, the divorce-through-the-eyes-of-a-child song "Caught in the Crossfire" is only slightly maudlin, and the blistering trucker tribute "Ridin' the Red Line" is sung with such amphetamine-fueled conviction that very few female country singers could pull it off convincingly, but Vincent has the range (and the Rage) to perform both the dewy-eyed "Crossfire" and the fiery "Red Line" back to back. The group's warm, a cappella rendition of "Fishers of Men" is reminiscent of Doyle Lawson Quicksilver's best gospel work, and their 20-second rip through the Martha White Flour song is a sly nod to Flatt Scruggs and any other picker who has exchanged their music for a quick sponsorship to all of the "Health and Happiness" tonics throughout the years. Highlighted throughout by breakup waltzes, makeup stompers, '40s train songs, '70s trucker songs, and up-to-the-minute acoustic folk numbers, One Step Ahead is all over the place thematically, but right on the money stylistically. - Zac Johnson, All Music Guide |
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Bluegrass vocalist and fiddler Rhonda Vincent began her professional music career at the age of five, playing drums with her family's band the Sally Mountain Show. She picked up the mandolin at eight and the fiddle at ten, performing with the family ...Full Rhonda Vincent Biography
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