Taken

This is a nicely produced bluegrass record that has a bit of a pop sound, and I miss some banjo pickin', It is good that she has some sessions players back again, really makes for a better disc.
Only problem I see is that the songs sound familiar, nothing really sticks out. It sounds like something I have heard before.
My favorite Vincent CD is Rhondas "One Step Ahead

I just find that it really does a great bluegrass sound and is a great recording.

Prime Cuts: Taken, Back on My Mind, A Little at a Time

As purveyor for of making bluegrass palpable to a younger generation, Rhonda Vincent is a prime ambassador. Rightly so, Vincent has gone all out to prove that bluegrass is not retro music for the generation passed. And this time she has visually placarded her belief by dressing herself in a tiny cleavage showing luminous blue top on the CD cover looking more like a Cosmopolitan model than a hillbilly clodhopper. Nevertheless, when it comes to the sonic content of this disc, Vincent does not sell out at all. She has remain loyal to her mother's milk even though "Taken" is the first album in over a decade not to be released on Rounder Records. Rather, it is released independently on her own Upper Management imprint. This time Vincent and her road band "Raging Live" have taken the producer's chair. But they have not chary in their production: they have again enlisted the help of some of the movers and shakers of...Read more

I recently saw Rhonda Vincent and the Rage. They are a great group to listen to in person. This CD is about as close as one gets to actually being there.