| CMT.COM Show Review |
| | 02/06/12 at 10:56 PM | | #1 |
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http://www.cmt.com/news/country-music/1678627/dailey-vincent-are-top-winners-at-spbgma-awards.jhtml
Rhonda Vincent, a many-time winner of SPBGMA's entertainer of the year award and older sister of Darrin Vincent, brought her band, the Rage, on for one of the most exciting segments of the evening.
Beginning with "Ragin' Live Tonight" and "All American Bluegrass Girl," Vincent paused to announce that her band has added a Dobro player for the first time and predicted the player, Brent Burke, was already well on his way to becoming "the next Jerry Douglas."
She added that Burke, a newly-minted graduate of East Tennessee State University, is the school's first graduate to earn a bachelor's degree in bluegrass, old-time and country music. Later, she let him strut his stuff during an instrumental romp that blended such classics as "Foggy Mountain Breakdown," "Wildwood Flower" and "Chicken Reel."
A bandleader who ranks with Bill Monroe and Ricky Skaggs when it comes to inventiveness, virtuosity and discipline, Vincent played to each of her band member's strengths, urging them along with her own driving excellence as a vocalist, mandolinist and fiddler.
She beckoned the Gibson Brothers to the stage to join her in a vocal trio cover of the Jim & Jesse favorite, "I'll Never Love Anybody Else but You."
Reminding the crowd she had recorded a duet album last year with country great Gene Watson -- Your Money and My Good Looks -- Vincent turned to her superb bass player, Mickey Harris, to sing Watson's part on the rueful ballad "Gone for Good."
She then pointed out that her guitar player -- Ben Helson -- had recently graduated from Bethel College after having spent a year touring with Ricky Skaggs' Kentucky Thunder band. She urged the younger players in the audience to investigate college programs in bluegrass, noting that some offer full scholarships.
Following her set, which ended with "Ridin' the Bluegrass Express," Vincent told CMT.com her still-untitled gospel DVD and CD will feature 23 songs and should be ready for release within a few months. She said it was filmed last summer at her 100-year-old home church in Missouri.
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| Susan |
| | 02/06/12 at 11:29 PM | | #2 |
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| Very nice!!!!! |
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| Ann A |
| | 02/08/12 at 12:24 PM | | #3 |
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WOW.....nicely said!!!!!  |
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| Goodmans |
| | 02/12/12 at 10:25 AM | | #4 |
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Nicely written review! We were there and I fully agree, they presented themselves well. Nice seeing the Ragers there! |
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