Rhonda Vincent - Good Thing Going
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Music CD Cover Artist: Rhonda Vincent Edition: Music CD CD Release Date: 2008-01-08 Music Label: Rounder / Umgd Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for Good Thing Going Album
Free Music Review: Vincent has a "Good Thing Going" with new Disc
Hit: 4 Stars
Prime Cuts: Water Is Wide (Duet with Keith Urban), I Give All My Love to You (Duet with Russell Moore) , I Will See You Again
Vincent with her array of sturdy bluegrass-tilted offerings has given vitality to this traditional genre. With "Good Thing Going" she sets herself out with another even loftier goal: bluegrass is not just your standard fare of picking-bowing-plucking-chopping exercise. Rather, bluegrass CDs can be rich with versatility encompassing a plethora of emotions from the brooding laments of heartbreak to the incessant ecstasy of burgeoning love and commitment. Backed by the Rage (Vincent's own road band), fiddle star Stuart Duncan and flat-picking guitar ace Bryan Sutton, this 12-song collection is impeccably well-played and the production (from brother Darrin Vincent) is state of the art. Also, this time Vincent does not just take the singing spotlight. Rather, her mandolin-picking expertise is on extravagant display. And so is her songwriting prowess, as the lady of bluegrass showcases 5 of her own solo compositions.
Most captivating about his set of recordings is when Vincent croons a ballad. Here the ballads are aplenty with "I Give All Love To You" being the prime. A gentle ode to the exultation of eternal love, this melodic ballad is sung as a duet with IIIrd Tyme's Russell Moore. Also interesting is Vincent's make-over of the Celtic chesnut "The Water is Wide." With its mournful fiddling, the gentle strumming of the guitar and country heartthrob Keith Urban's slightly husky duet vocals, "The Water is Wide" has been transformed into an exquisite affair that emanates from the recesses of the heart. Vincent takes a 180-degree lyrical turn with "I Will See You Again" a gentle pastoral homily of hope and love in the midst of death and despair that is done with sensitivity. Further, Vincent's angelic vocals elevates this ballad to a level of transcendence.
When Vincent does kick up the dust, she does it with class and finesse especially on her self-penned album opener "I'm Leaving." Similarly, listen for some fierce sounding fiddle and mandolin race to speedy perfection on the super faced paced "Hit Parade of Love." However, not everything works: besides the exquisite playing, there is nothing too earth shattering about the requisite heartbreak theme of "Who's Cryin' Baby." While the mid-tempo lament of faithless love "Scorn of a Lover" just does not capture the ache and pain as well as it could have been.
Overall, Vincent is still stalwart in putting new spins without falling into trappings often associated with a traditional genre like bluegrass music. Further, her choice of more ballads on this new disc has been most welcomed. It has introduced us to her softer side that might act as a bridge for those who are not fans of hardcore bluegrass. Some of these ballads verge so close to country that they may also work on country radio. In short, with this new effort Vincent has a good thing going for her.