October 14, 2024 • 29 mins
Grammy award winnning artist and the queen of Bluegrass Rhonda Vincent joined us on the show to discuss her new album Destinations and Fun Places! We played some tunes from the album and chatted about everything from the songs on the latest record and lots more!. Tune in!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, this is Grammy Award winning bluegrass artist Ronda Vincent
and you're listening to the Backstage Pass podcast on the
home of the grand Ole Opry, WSMAM six fifty and.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Welcome inside WSM Radio Here on a Sunday morning. It
is the Backstage Past, powered by the Sports guysopodcast dot
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(00:35):
there too. I Hearten of course a wsmapp at wsmradio
dot com and also tune in our guest this week.
The new album is out there across all the digital
streaming platforms. Make sure you guys go check it out too.
Fantastic came out in August of this year, and she's
already nominated again for Female Vocalist and Music Video of
the Year for the City of New Orleans at this
year's IBMA Awards. And of course, Destinations and Fun Places
(00:58):
came out back in August in a bloodgrass mister Ron
devinz a joining us here on the show.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
How you doing, miss Ronda, I'm doing great, and thank
you for sharing the news about our new projects. Very
exciting destinations and fun places, which is I guess I
saw you at the Grand Ole Opry another a wonderful
destination and a wonderful fun place.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah, no doubt about it too. We said a few
rose there as guest of Derrick Worley back there in June.
It was good to see you kind of open that show.
Talk about that first, you know, on this great station,
I mean, the holy Grail of country music's been around
almost celebrating one hundred years on the air in the
home of the Opry. Every time you got step on stage,
I mean you bring it with your band.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Well, I travel with incredible musicians and I always love
getting to step on the Opery stage and usually we
get to open the show and I like that. It's
one time they apologize they said, I'm sorry you've been
opening the show.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
It's like, are you kidding?
Speaker 3 (01:46):
I love that because then I get to enjoy the
rest of the night. I would I would rather do
that than sit there and kind of, you know, you
would stress. It's always a nervous thing anyway, being on
the opry, and if you if we're not first, you
sit there and start stressing. It's like, oh man, and
did I bring my earrings? Did I have I got
the right dress?
Speaker 4 (02:03):
What am I going to do?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
All I remember the words of this song? I like
to just we just get there. We just hit it,
go out and open the show. And it's always fun.
And so that's usually what we do.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Talk about this new album, Dada. You guys are excited
to kind of put just a new different, you know,
twist on these songs. And I love it because, you know,
blue grass has been around for so many years, so
many successful moments you've had in your career, but destinations
and fun places across all those digital streaming platforms, and
a lot of fans who may not be familiar with bluegrass,
they're going to really enjoy this record, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Well, it's it came about very unlikely. Jennie Seeley wrote
a song, the song I Miss Missouri. She wrote that
she started writing that over twenty years ago and then
she lost everything in the flood of twenty ten and
lost those lyrics, and then she invited me my greatest
dream come true. She invited me to be a member
of the opera in February of twenty twenty. We're dear friends,
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and she said those lyrics started coming back to her.
She started writing them down, and she invited Aaron Enderlin
and I to come over to her house and finish
writing it. So and I can't be in her house
because she has cats. So I hold my breath and
walk through out to the balcony that overlooks the Cumberland River.
And anyway, we finished the song, and I said, I
(03:14):
miss Missouri. I wonder if this could be a destinations
project that I could start, And so I made a
list of over one hundred songs of destinations that were familiar.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
You know, I've been everywhere a lot.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Of destinations in that and how I got to Memphis.
The first song I recorded for this was Somewhere Over
the Rainbow and it didn't even make the project.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
But we recorded several songs. But I Miss Missouri.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
That's an original. There's two originals, one by that Bob Minner.
He has worked with Tim McGraw for over thirty years
write songs and he came to my house to look
at a guitar of my guitar players by total accident,
and somehow mentions this song. The album was pretty much
already done. It's like, man, I'm not going to put
another song. He started singing me this song and that
(04:00):
he and his wife called in Between Town, and he
let me customize it. It talks about my mother's beauty shop,
which is Carolyn's Cutting Curl.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Green Talp, Missouri, where I was, you know where.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
She still lives on the same block, in the same house,
and so he let me customer in the Good Shepherd
Church where I was saved, so many other things, Suzy's IgA.
So those are the two originals, and then there's so
much there's so many twin fiddles or violins, whatever you
want to call it throughout, especially on in Between Town.
Then as I was recording it, we selected the songs
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everybody everything from four Strong Wins, Margueriteville, Country Roads, wagon Wheel,
all of these very unlikely songs. I think they're going
to be introduced to a new generation if they haven't
heard him before. Alison Krause sings, it's over seven minutes
of wagon Wheel, which is either a love or a
hate situation, I guess, But anyway, Alison is singing throughout.
(04:57):
It features my band, by our incredible musicians. There's a
lot of different The arrangement features a mid tempo to
a fast tempo to end it an a cappella version
of an a cappella section with Allison and I just
singing and so so many different elements. Sonya Isaacs is
singing on nine to five, the destination being work. Trisha
(05:17):
Yearwood and Jennie Seely sing on Margaritaville. It became an
anthem for women instead of men, so I thought that
was pretty fitting.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
And then are the centerpiece. It has this beautiful string.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Section all the way through that my fiddler and Adam
Haynes arranged them and he and I are playing all
of the twins throughout. But it features Cody Johnson and
Dolly Parton. So there's a lot of elements to that.
How much did you want to know about this project?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
A lot lot? Over the next few minutes too, we
got to play right out here on the home with
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and wagon Wheel off the album Destinations and fun Places.
Here it is on WS and Radio the.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Home, getting down south to the land of the Pines,
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coming my way into North Carolina, staring up the road
and a breeding god.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
I see headlines I made down.
Speaker 7 (06:31):
The coast in seventeen hours that.
Speaker 8 (06:34):
It can be a bouquet of all wood flowers.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
And I'm woking for rolligh. I can see my babe.
Rock me Mama like a wagon. We'll rock me mama anyway.
Speaker 7 (06:50):
Feel a mom rock me, rock me Mama, like the
window and the rain, rock bee Mama, like a south
bound train, a MoMA rock me running from the cold
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up in New England. I was born to be.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
A fiddler in an old time string bit baby plays
a guitar, I'm playing a mandolin. Oh no, country winders
keeper getting me downloast my bunney playing poker.
Speaker 7 (07:29):
So I had to lead down.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
But I ain't a turn it back to live in
that old like bumble rock bean Mama, like a wagon,
wig rock.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
Be Mama anyway.
Speaker 9 (07:43):
If a.
Speaker 7 (07:47):
Mom rock bea.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
Rock bean Mama like the wind and the rain, rock
bean Mama, like a.
Speaker 7 (07:56):
South down train. A mom rock me walking to the
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south out of Ruino. I caught a truck a round
a phill. He told a nice long joke.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
He's ahead in the West Cumberland gap to Johnson City, Tennessee,
and I gotta move on to the Sun.
Speaker 7 (08:48):
I hear my baby coming by nay Man.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
I don't be easy, the only one if I did
in Raleigh at peace, thou will die Freeze. Oh me
Mama like a wagon. We rock me Mama anyway.
Speaker 7 (09:05):
Feels a.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Mom. Rock me, rock me Mama, like the wind and
the rain. Rock be Mama like a south bound train.
A mom rocked me, Rock me Mama like a wagon.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
We rock me Mama anyway feels a mom. Rock me,
rock me Mama like the wind and the rain. Rock
me Mama like a south bound train. A mom rocked me.
Speaker 10 (10:18):
Baking, Rock me Mama like the wind.
Speaker 7 (11:21):
And the rain.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Rob me Mom like us don't dry.
Speaker 8 (11:31):
Hey mom, rock me.
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back here with the Queen of Bluegrass. All right, so, Wagonwheel,
you mentioned about how much did I want to know
(14:32):
about this project? A lot, which is good out there
because you took a classic country song that other artists
have cut. I mean, obviously you've got a great bluegrass
rendition of it. Darius Rucker did a great rendition of
this when it first came out to and he kind
of really converted over to a country to become the
artist that he is. But what an iconic song for
wagon wheeling. For you guys to put your spin on.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
It, very exciting. I'm glad we did it, and some
people are not though, you.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Know, but it made it unique. And I think that's
that's what everything so great about music these days, because
no matter that there's so many crossovers now, and bluegrass
has been around for a long time, and I grew
up with Ricky Skaggs and of course Daily and Vincent,
yourself and so many great singers out there that have
really made bluegrass what it is. And I know that
the organization for the International Bluegrass Music Awards, which you're
(15:18):
up for this year, talk about that too, because such
a great organization that is honoring you.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
That's what we are.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
We're I'm nominated for Female Vocalists and this is the
first year for the Music video category and our song
the City of New Orleans is up for a Video
of the Year, So that would be really great to
snag that award the very first year it comes out.
And you know wagon Will you mentioned it wagon Wheel.
We tracked that three years ago, but twenty twenty four
(15:44):
high ironic that it is released and this is the
twentieth anniversary of the song wagon Wheel. So I love
that it's on here celebrating that catch. I found out
when I talked to Catch about changing lyrics. You know,
I put mandolin and joke. Some people said, I wonder
how you we're going to sing that? So anyway, I
changed the lyrics around just a little bit and he
allowed that.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Thank you for that.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
I know one of my partners that brought up to
here on the show you got to do the Roberts
Western World twenty fifth anniversary show on Broadway talk about
it too, because he had brought that up to me.
He said, you better ask Rondo about that.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Well, that was quite an experience.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
It was very hot, and you know it all sounds
like a great idea, is like you want to play
on Broadway? Yes, that would be awesome until you get
in all the traffic and all of the people and
just the logistics of making that happen. Man, that is
not for the faint of heart. So kudos to them
for setting all that up. I cannot imagine what the
(16:40):
permits even that it took to put all that together.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
So what thank you for letting us be part of that.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Del McCurry was there, Red Volcart, one of my favorite
guitar players in the entire world, Telemaster Red Volgart was there.
They put together quite an amazing, amazing show, and now
we were.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Thrilled to be part of it.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
You know, you've done this thing called music for a
long time. What's been your key or kind of that
driving factor to keep going in a better, very ever
changing business because we all know these things kind of
success did happened overnight in Nashville's a ten year town
or sometimes more. What's been that driving factor for you
and that love of music to kind of keep you
going to overcome the obstacles and get where you want
(17:18):
to be in your career.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
I mean, I love it, and if I didn't love it,
and if it wasn't fun and just so joyful, you know,
I probably couldn't do that or wouldn't want to do that.
But I grew up in a musical family up in
Green Top, Missouri. Five generations. Now the sixth generation, my
daughter Sally, is making history, is the first female lead
of the United States Navy band Country Current, their premiere
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bluegrass and country band.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
So I'm so thrilled that, you know, we've done this
for so many years.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
It was a way of life for me, and it
just evolved into a career. I grew to love it,
and I can't imagine until we got to twenty twenty,
there wasn't a single day that I can remember that
we weren't singing or playing. My dad would pick me
up from school and we would play to bed time
or till dinner, and after dinner friends would come over
and we would play at bedtime. So music was very,
very concentrated in our household.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
And I'm just I'm so thankful. Now.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Talk about that team behind you too, because obviously you
know you've got a great guy's got sex, and over
twenty nine to eleven, just that entire team, but also
too from management to get where you want to go
in your career. We talk about just the uplifting of
that too, because it's one thing to get out there
and you'll sing those songs and perform and keep a schedule.
Of course, do interviews things like this with media and
stuff like that. But the team is so important to
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have that definitely that household place and knowing that you've
got that backing from that.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Team, right, well you yeah, it's not they will see me,
but they don't realize all the things that go on
behind the scenes. Julia Monishor has worked for me with
me for over thirty years and yeah, you know, you
probably never see her maybe a rare show that you
might see her at.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
And Colin Bailey, now he was my intern.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
I never had an intern before and he so out
of college when he was stopped being the intern, and
it's like, well, you have to come to work for me.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
I guess that happens a lot.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
If you intern for somebody, you hope that they end
up hiring you or that you get a job throughout that. So,
yes and Scott and the PR team. It just and
the band that I travel with is so amazing. I'm
very very thankful. I love these guys. They are all
at the very top of their game. World class musicians,
and you know, we go in the studio to record.
You know, I always have a vision for maybe songs,
(19:24):
I've set the songs, but I love that when we
come together. You know, that's as you record as a band,
you get a lot of different You'll get a different
feel than if you just went in for just a
couple of people. It's not quite the same. It can
be very disjointed sometimes, but man, you can feel how
cohesive it is. In fact, I'll fly away. That is
on this project was originally recorded with a former grouping
(19:51):
Aaron mcderis and Mickey Harris are still in the band
twenty two years for Mickey, fifteen for Aaron. But at
that time when we recorded that song for a movie,
we did an up tempo version and a slower version
which ends up being on the album. They used the
up tempo version and said you can use the other
one for whatever you want, and so I thought it
was great to honor. Hunter Berry on fiddle was in
(20:12):
my group for twenty one years, and Josh Williams so
many years and Jeff Parton. So that's the collaboration, and
that song is pretty much live.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
It is live. It's the way the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
While we were recording this, there was felt this incredible presence,
and I hope that when you listen to that you
can feel the presence that we felt that day, because.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
It just took on this this whole different feel.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
I start and it's I started talking to the guys
as we're recording and saying, Hunter, keep playing this, or
play the doughbro here, and I just kept I started
guiding him and I just felt, you know, I don't
even feel like I was the one leading him. But anyway,
I'll Fly Away is on there, and that's the other
songs are pretty much my current band, but that is
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in commemoration of this movie that when it came, which
was originally recorded for and of this band. So I
love that, you know, you get together with these amazing
people and.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
You just never know what amazing thing you're gonna get.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
That's the truth too. And like I said, we got
to see you perform this one on the Opry back
in June, and it was a single out there and
it's on the Destinations and Fun Places album out there
across all the digital streaming platform. That's Ron Vincent. Please mister,
please here to this on wsm AM six fifty, the
home of the grand Ole Opry.
Speaker 13 (21:29):
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Speaker 7 (21:48):
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Speaker 14 (21:55):
You can hear your five selections, recorder somebody else's songs
when you're through. They've got good Kentucky whiskey on the counter,
and my friends around healthy ease the pain.
Speaker 15 (22:21):
Till somebody pushing. Cowboy plays that love song and here
I'm just missing you again.
Speaker 16 (22:33):
Please, mister, please, you'll play be seventeen.
Speaker 7 (22:40):
It was our song. It puts his song, but it's
all over.
Speaker 16 (22:46):
Please, mister please, If you know what I mean, I
don't ever all hear that song again.
Speaker 7 (23:26):
If I had a dime for every time I held.
Speaker 17 (23:30):
You so you're far away, been so close to me, well,
I swear I'd be the richest girl in Nashall, maybe
even in the state often see.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
So I guess i'd better get myself together.
Speaker 7 (23:58):
I'll sween you left. You didn't lead too much.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
Benind just to know that says I'm sorry by your picture.
Speaker 16 (24:11):
Had a song that's laying heavy on my mind. Please, mister, please,
you'll play be seventeen. It was our song. It was
his song, but it's all over. Please mister please, if.
Speaker 7 (24:34):
You know what heavy, I don't ever want him that
song game.
Speaker 16 (25:09):
Plaise, mister, please don't play Bees seventeen. It was our song,
it was his song, but it's all over. Please mister please.
Speaker 7 (25:25):
If you know what I mean, I don't.
Speaker 16 (25:29):
Ever moony here that song again. I don't evermony hear
that song again.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
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Speaker 2 (26:21):
Back here with the Queen of Bluegrass, Ron Devincent on
the show Grand ol Lop. Remember Grammy Award winner, She's
done it all. And I want to ask you about
this one because when you guys opened the show with
this particular song, please mister please, I thought it was
fantastic and you brought up a good point in their
last segment there getting a band together and never know
what's going to kind of come out on the other
side because musicians have great talents. What a great song
(26:42):
and what a great spin you guys put I'm just
a terrific bluegrass song.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
We were I was working on I was singing four
Strong Wins, the Ian Tyson song that's on the album.
I turned around from singing that and just started singing, please,
mister please, from from hearing it years ago. I hadn't
thought of it in years, and I said, oh, my goodness,
I think this will make a great up tempo bluegrass song.
And I took it to the band. I said, please,
mister Fleas and they're like, we never heard this. We
(27:08):
weren't born yet. We weren't born in nineteen seven, nineteen
seventy five when this came out.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
But it's become one of my favorites to perform. I
love this song. People either they start singing it or
they you can see them soaking it in, like what
is this song?
Speaker 3 (27:23):
And sometimes it like they don't recognize it right first
at first, until we get to the to the chorus.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
But you would not.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
You'll be really surprised at the people that instantly know
it and they sing every word.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
You had people up on their feet, no doubt when
that was in the audience for that performance. Oh nice,
nice standing ovation. All right, some of your favorite restaurants
where you do like to eat at? What the food
you like?
Speaker 3 (27:46):
There's so many great, great restaurants, but you know one
of my favorites is going to Robberts and hearing great
honky talk music and having their you know, they've got
the best burgers in town.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
I think I can't wait to get back up there
for CRS twenty five too at the same time, and
I know for you guys, it's going to be a
busy tour season already is continues to be out there
too at the same time, and again destinations and fun
places across all those digital streaming platforms, Vinyl, the USBA,
everything out there till you can find your music for
Rhndovincent out there and check out all the great music
we've talked about today. I appreciate you being always here
(28:16):
for us on the show and always great to talk
to you and catch up and promote the music out
there too. Best of luck with the tour and continued
success going forward. As always, Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Go to runovncent dot com or join me on Facebook
at Rondovncent official and I will hope to see you
at a destination very soon.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
You got any destinations and fun places there we go on.
Of course, our destination is WSMAM six to fifty back
next Sunday here on the Home with a grandual Lotbry
five thirty am to six am every Sunday. You can
check us out on iHeart and of course out there
tune in and wsnradio dot com and the WSN Radio APF.
Another great featured artist coming up next week here on
the show until the end, stay tuned and God bless
Speaker 4 (28:53):
Hey y'all, this is Terry McBride and you're listening to
the Backstage Pass on WSM Radio
Hi, this is Grammy Award winning bluegrass artist Ronda Vincent
and you're listening to the Backstage Pass podcast on the
home of the grand Ole Opry, WSMAM six fifty and.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Welcome inside WSM Radio Here on a Sunday morning. It
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dot com and also tune in our guest this week.
The new album is out there across all the digital
streaming platforms. Make sure you guys go check it out too.
Fantastic came out in August of this year, and she's
already nominated again for Female Vocalist and Music Video of
the Year for the City of New Orleans at this
year's IBMA Awards. And of course, Destinations and Fun Places
(00:58):
came out back in August in a bloodgrass mister Ron
devinz a joining us here on the show.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
How you doing, miss Ronda, I'm doing great, and thank
you for sharing the news about our new projects. Very
exciting destinations and fun places, which is I guess I
saw you at the Grand Ole Opry another a wonderful
destination and a wonderful fun place.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah, no doubt about it too. We said a few
rose there as guest of Derrick Worley back there in June.
It was good to see you kind of open that show.
Talk about that first, you know, on this great station,
I mean, the holy Grail of country music's been around
almost celebrating one hundred years on the air in the
home of the Opry. Every time you got step on stage,
I mean you bring it with your band.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Well, I travel with incredible musicians and I always love
getting to step on the Opery stage and usually we
get to open the show and I like that. It's
one time they apologize they said, I'm sorry you've been
opening the show.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
It's like, are you kidding?
Speaker 3 (01:46):
I love that because then I get to enjoy the
rest of the night. I would I would rather do
that than sit there and kind of, you know, you
would stress. It's always a nervous thing anyway, being on
the opry, and if you if we're not first, you
sit there and start stressing. It's like, oh man, and
did I bring my earrings? Did I have I got
the right dress?
Speaker 4 (02:03):
What am I going to do?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
All I remember the words of this song? I like
to just we just get there. We just hit it,
go out and open the show. And it's always fun.
And so that's usually what we do.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Talk about this new album, Dada. You guys are excited
to kind of put just a new different, you know,
twist on these songs. And I love it because, you know,
blue grass has been around for so many years, so
many successful moments you've had in your career, but destinations
and fun places across all those digital streaming platforms, and
a lot of fans who may not be familiar with bluegrass,
they're going to really enjoy this record, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Well, it's it came about very unlikely. Jennie Seeley wrote
a song, the song I Miss Missouri. She wrote that
she started writing that over twenty years ago and then
she lost everything in the flood of twenty ten and
lost those lyrics, and then she invited me my greatest
dream come true. She invited me to be a member
of the opera in February of twenty twenty. We're dear friends,
(02:54):
and she said those lyrics started coming back to her.
She started writing them down, and she invited Aaron Enderlin
and I to come over to her house and finish
writing it. So and I can't be in her house
because she has cats. So I hold my breath and
walk through out to the balcony that overlooks the Cumberland River.
And anyway, we finished the song, and I said, I
(03:14):
miss Missouri. I wonder if this could be a destinations
project that I could start, And so I made a
list of over one hundred songs of destinations that were familiar.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
You know, I've been everywhere a lot.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Of destinations in that and how I got to Memphis.
The first song I recorded for this was Somewhere Over
the Rainbow and it didn't even make the project.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
But we recorded several songs. But I Miss Missouri.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
That's an original. There's two originals, one by that Bob Minner.
He has worked with Tim McGraw for over thirty years
write songs and he came to my house to look
at a guitar of my guitar players by total accident,
and somehow mentions this song. The album was pretty much
already done. It's like, man, I'm not going to put
another song. He started singing me this song and that
(04:00):
he and his wife called in Between Town, and he
let me customize it. It talks about my mother's beauty shop,
which is Carolyn's Cutting Curl.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Green Talp, Missouri, where I was, you know where.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
She still lives on the same block, in the same house,
and so he let me customer in the Good Shepherd
Church where I was saved, so many other things, Suzy's IgA.
So those are the two originals, and then there's so
much there's so many twin fiddles or violins, whatever you
want to call it throughout, especially on in Between Town.
Then as I was recording it, we selected the songs
(04:35):
everybody everything from four Strong Wins, Margueriteville, Country Roads, wagon Wheel,
all of these very unlikely songs. I think they're going
to be introduced to a new generation if they haven't
heard him before. Alison Krause sings, it's over seven minutes
of wagon Wheel, which is either a love or a
hate situation, I guess, But anyway, Alison is singing throughout.
(04:57):
It features my band, by our incredible musicians. There's a
lot of different The arrangement features a mid tempo to
a fast tempo to end it an a cappella version
of an a cappella section with Allison and I just
singing and so so many different elements. Sonya Isaacs is
singing on nine to five, the destination being work. Trisha
(05:17):
Yearwood and Jennie Seely sing on Margaritaville. It became an
anthem for women instead of men, so I thought that
was pretty fitting.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
And then are the centerpiece. It has this beautiful string.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Section all the way through that my fiddler and Adam
Haynes arranged them and he and I are playing all
of the twins throughout. But it features Cody Johnson and
Dolly Parton. So there's a lot of elements to that.
How much did you want to know about this project?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
A lot lot? Over the next few minutes too, we
got to play right out here on the home with
the Grand ol Opry again. The backstage past powered by
the sports Guys podcast Dot Coum. It's Rond de Vincent
and wagon Wheel off the album Destinations and fun Places.
Here it is on WS and Radio the.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Home, getting down south to the land of the Pines,
(06:20):
coming my way into North Carolina, staring up the road
and a breeding god.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
I see headlines I made down.
Speaker 7 (06:31):
The coast in seventeen hours that.
Speaker 8 (06:34):
It can be a bouquet of all wood flowers.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
And I'm woking for rolligh. I can see my babe.
Rock me Mama like a wagon. We'll rock me mama anyway.
Speaker 7 (06:50):
Feel a mom rock me, rock me Mama, like the
window and the rain, rock bee Mama, like a south
bound train, a MoMA rock me running from the cold
(07:12):
up in New England. I was born to be.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
A fiddler in an old time string bit baby plays
a guitar, I'm playing a mandolin. Oh no, country winders
keeper getting me downloast my bunney playing poker.
Speaker 7 (07:29):
So I had to lead down.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
But I ain't a turn it back to live in
that old like bumble rock bean Mama, like a wagon,
wig rock.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
Be Mama anyway.
Speaker 9 (07:43):
If a.
Speaker 7 (07:47):
Mom rock bea.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
Rock bean Mama like the wind and the rain, rock
bean Mama, like a.
Speaker 7 (07:56):
South down train. A mom rock me walking to the
(08:33):
south out of Ruino. I caught a truck a round
a phill. He told a nice long joke.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
He's ahead in the West Cumberland gap to Johnson City, Tennessee,
and I gotta move on to the Sun.
Speaker 7 (08:48):
I hear my baby coming by nay Man.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
I don't be easy, the only one if I did
in Raleigh at peace, thou will die Freeze. Oh me
Mama like a wagon. We rock me Mama anyway.
Speaker 7 (09:05):
Feels a.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Mom. Rock me, rock me Mama, like the wind and
the rain. Rock be Mama like a south bound train.
A mom rocked me, Rock me Mama like a wagon.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
We rock me Mama anyway feels a mom. Rock me,
rock me Mama like the wind and the rain. Rock
me Mama like a south bound train. A mom rocked me.
Speaker 10 (10:18):
Baking, Rock me Mama like the wind.
Speaker 7 (11:21):
And the rain.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Rob me Mom like us don't dry.
Speaker 8 (11:31):
Hey mom, rock me.
Speaker 11 (13:13):
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back here with the Queen of Bluegrass. All right, so, Wagonwheel,
you mentioned about how much did I want to know
(14:32):
about this project? A lot, which is good out there
because you took a classic country song that other artists
have cut. I mean, obviously you've got a great bluegrass
rendition of it. Darius Rucker did a great rendition of
this when it first came out to and he kind
of really converted over to a country to become the
artist that he is. But what an iconic song for
wagon wheeling. For you guys to put your spin on.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
It, very exciting. I'm glad we did it, and some
people are not though, you.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Know, but it made it unique. And I think that's
that's what everything so great about music these days, because
no matter that there's so many crossovers now, and bluegrass
has been around for a long time, and I grew
up with Ricky Skaggs and of course Daily and Vincent,
yourself and so many great singers out there that have
really made bluegrass what it is. And I know that
the organization for the International Bluegrass Music Awards, which you're
(15:18):
up for this year, talk about that too, because such
a great organization that is honoring you.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
That's what we are.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
We're I'm nominated for Female Vocalists and this is the
first year for the Music video category and our song
the City of New Orleans is up for a Video
of the Year, So that would be really great to
snag that award the very first year it comes out.
And you know wagon Will you mentioned it wagon Wheel.
We tracked that three years ago, but twenty twenty four
(15:44):
high ironic that it is released and this is the
twentieth anniversary of the song wagon Wheel. So I love
that it's on here celebrating that catch. I found out
when I talked to Catch about changing lyrics. You know,
I put mandolin and joke. Some people said, I wonder
how you we're going to sing that? So anyway, I
changed the lyrics around just a little bit and he
allowed that.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Thank you for that.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
I know one of my partners that brought up to
here on the show you got to do the Roberts
Western World twenty fifth anniversary show on Broadway talk about
it too, because he had brought that up to me.
He said, you better ask Rondo about that.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Well, that was quite an experience.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
It was very hot, and you know it all sounds
like a great idea, is like you want to play
on Broadway? Yes, that would be awesome until you get
in all the traffic and all of the people and
just the logistics of making that happen. Man, that is
not for the faint of heart. So kudos to them
for setting all that up. I cannot imagine what the
(16:40):
permits even that it took to put all that together.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
So what thank you for letting us be part of that.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Del McCurry was there, Red Volcart, one of my favorite
guitar players in the entire world, Telemaster Red Volgart was there.
They put together quite an amazing, amazing show, and now
we were.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Thrilled to be part of it.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
You know, you've done this thing called music for a
long time. What's been your key or kind of that
driving factor to keep going in a better, very ever
changing business because we all know these things kind of
success did happened overnight in Nashville's a ten year town
or sometimes more. What's been that driving factor for you
and that love of music to kind of keep you
going to overcome the obstacles and get where you want
(17:18):
to be in your career.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
I mean, I love it, and if I didn't love it,
and if it wasn't fun and just so joyful, you know,
I probably couldn't do that or wouldn't want to do that.
But I grew up in a musical family up in
Green Top, Missouri. Five generations. Now the sixth generation, my
daughter Sally, is making history, is the first female lead
of the United States Navy band Country Current, their premiere
(17:41):
bluegrass and country band.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
So I'm so thrilled that, you know, we've done this
for so many years.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
It was a way of life for me, and it
just evolved into a career. I grew to love it,
and I can't imagine until we got to twenty twenty,
there wasn't a single day that I can remember that
we weren't singing or playing. My dad would pick me
up from school and we would play to bed time
or till dinner, and after dinner friends would come over
and we would play at bedtime. So music was very,
very concentrated in our household.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
And I'm just I'm so thankful. Now.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Talk about that team behind you too, because obviously you
know you've got a great guy's got sex, and over
twenty nine to eleven, just that entire team, but also
too from management to get where you want to go
in your career. We talk about just the uplifting of
that too, because it's one thing to get out there
and you'll sing those songs and perform and keep a schedule.
Of course, do interviews things like this with media and
stuff like that. But the team is so important to
(18:31):
have that definitely that household place and knowing that you've
got that backing from that.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Team, right, well you yeah, it's not they will see me,
but they don't realize all the things that go on
behind the scenes. Julia Monishor has worked for me with
me for over thirty years and yeah, you know, you
probably never see her maybe a rare show that you
might see her at.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
And Colin Bailey, now he was my intern.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
I never had an intern before and he so out
of college when he was stopped being the intern, and
it's like, well, you have to come to work for me.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
I guess that happens a lot.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
If you intern for somebody, you hope that they end
up hiring you or that you get a job throughout that. So,
yes and Scott and the PR team. It just and
the band that I travel with is so amazing. I'm
very very thankful. I love these guys. They are all
at the very top of their game. World class musicians,
and you know, we go in the studio to record.
You know, I always have a vision for maybe songs,
(19:24):
I've set the songs, but I love that when we
come together. You know, that's as you record as a band,
you get a lot of different You'll get a different
feel than if you just went in for just a
couple of people. It's not quite the same. It can
be very disjointed sometimes, but man, you can feel how
cohesive it is. In fact, I'll fly away. That is
on this project was originally recorded with a former grouping
(19:51):
Aaron mcderis and Mickey Harris are still in the band
twenty two years for Mickey, fifteen for Aaron. But at
that time when we recorded that song for a movie,
we did an up tempo version and a slower version
which ends up being on the album. They used the
up tempo version and said you can use the other
one for whatever you want, and so I thought it
was great to honor. Hunter Berry on fiddle was in
(20:12):
my group for twenty one years, and Josh Williams so
many years and Jeff Parton. So that's the collaboration, and
that song is pretty much live.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
It is live. It's the way the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
While we were recording this, there was felt this incredible presence,
and I hope that when you listen to that you
can feel the presence that we felt that day, because.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
It just took on this this whole different feel.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
I start and it's I started talking to the guys
as we're recording and saying, Hunter, keep playing this, or
play the doughbro here, and I just kept I started
guiding him and I just felt, you know, I don't
even feel like I was the one leading him. But anyway,
I'll Fly Away is on there, and that's the other
songs are pretty much my current band, but that is
(21:00):
in commemoration of this movie that when it came, which
was originally recorded for and of this band. So I
love that, you know, you get together with these amazing
people and.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
You just never know what amazing thing you're gonna get.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
That's the truth too. And like I said, we got
to see you perform this one on the Opry back
in June, and it was a single out there and
it's on the Destinations and Fun Places album out there
across all the digital streaming platform. That's Ron Vincent. Please mister,
please here to this on wsm AM six fifty, the
home of the grand Ole Opry.
Speaker 13 (21:29):
Enjoy in the corner all the bar there stands at
June Bucks.
Speaker 7 (21:48):
With the best LK Country music, the old news.
Speaker 14 (21:55):
You can hear your five selections, recorder somebody else's songs
when you're through. They've got good Kentucky whiskey on the counter,
and my friends around healthy ease the pain.
Speaker 15 (22:21):
Till somebody pushing. Cowboy plays that love song and here
I'm just missing you again.
Speaker 16 (22:33):
Please, mister, please, you'll play be seventeen.
Speaker 7 (22:40):
It was our song. It puts his song, but it's
all over.
Speaker 16 (22:46):
Please, mister please, If you know what I mean, I
don't ever all hear that song again.
Speaker 7 (23:26):
If I had a dime for every time I held.
Speaker 17 (23:30):
You so you're far away, been so close to me, well,
I swear I'd be the richest girl in Nashall, maybe
even in the state often see.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
So I guess i'd better get myself together.
Speaker 7 (23:58):
I'll sween you left. You didn't lead too much.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
Benind just to know that says I'm sorry by your picture.
Speaker 16 (24:11):
Had a song that's laying heavy on my mind. Please, mister, please,
you'll play be seventeen. It was our song. It was
his song, but it's all over. Please mister please, if.
Speaker 7 (24:34):
You know what heavy, I don't ever want him that
song game.
Speaker 16 (25:09):
Plaise, mister, please don't play Bees seventeen. It was our song,
it was his song, but it's all over. Please mister please.
Speaker 7 (25:25):
If you know what I mean, I don't.
Speaker 16 (25:29):
Ever moony here that song again. I don't evermony hear
that song again.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Hey y'all, this is Phil Vasser and you're listening to
this stage path on the Home of the Opera, w
FM AM six fifty.
Speaker 9 (26:07):
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Speaker 7 (26:15):
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Speaker 9 (26:15):
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Speaker 2 (26:21):
Back here with the Queen of Bluegrass, Ron Devincent on
the show Grand ol Lop. Remember Grammy Award winner, She's
done it all. And I want to ask you about
this one because when you guys opened the show with
this particular song, please mister please, I thought it was
fantastic and you brought up a good point in their
last segment there getting a band together and never know
what's going to kind of come out on the other
side because musicians have great talents. What a great song
(26:42):
and what a great spin you guys put I'm just
a terrific bluegrass song.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
We were I was working on I was singing four
Strong Wins, the Ian Tyson song that's on the album.
I turned around from singing that and just started singing, please,
mister please, from from hearing it years ago. I hadn't
thought of it in years, and I said, oh, my goodness,
I think this will make a great up tempo bluegrass song.
And I took it to the band. I said, please,
mister Fleas and they're like, we never heard this. We
(27:08):
weren't born yet. We weren't born in nineteen seven, nineteen
seventy five when this came out.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
But it's become one of my favorites to perform. I
love this song. People either they start singing it or
they you can see them soaking it in, like what
is this song?
Speaker 3 (27:23):
And sometimes it like they don't recognize it right first
at first, until we get to the to the chorus.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
But you would not.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
You'll be really surprised at the people that instantly know
it and they sing every word.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
You had people up on their feet, no doubt when
that was in the audience for that performance. Oh nice,
nice standing ovation. All right, some of your favorite restaurants
where you do like to eat at? What the food
you like?
Speaker 3 (27:46):
There's so many great, great restaurants, but you know one
of my favorites is going to Robberts and hearing great
honky talk music and having their you know, they've got
the best burgers in town.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
I think I can't wait to get back up there
for CRS twenty five too at the same time, and
I know for you guys, it's going to be a
busy tour season already is continues to be out there
too at the same time, and again destinations and fun
places across all those digital streaming platforms, Vinyl, the USBA,
everything out there till you can find your music for
Rhndovincent out there and check out all the great music
we've talked about today. I appreciate you being always here
(28:16):
for us on the show and always great to talk
to you and catch up and promote the music out
there too. Best of luck with the tour and continued
success going forward. As always, Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Go to runovncent dot com or join me on Facebook
at Rondovncent official and I will hope to see you
at a destination very soon.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
You got any destinations and fun places there we go on.
Of course, our destination is WSMAM six to fifty back
next Sunday here on the Home with a grandual Lotbry
five thirty am to six am every Sunday. You can
check us out on iHeart and of course out there
tune in and wsnradio dot com and the WSN Radio APF.
Another great featured artist coming up next week here on
the show until the end, stay tuned and God bless
Speaker 4 (28:53):
Hey y'all, this is Terry McBride and you're listening to
the Backstage Pass on WSM Radio
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