Jan 24
Rhonda Vincent interview on CMT.com
“Good Thing Going” (Rounder)CMT.com’s Edward Morris has a great interview with Rhonda Vincent currently online.
In the interview, Vincent shares some of here “secrets” to staying organized with such a chaotic schedule between life on the road, building a new studio and finding time to record her latest album “Good Thing Going” that was released January 8th on Rounder Records. She also discusses how she convinced James Stroud to come play pizza box percussion on the new record.
But the oddest guest appearance is by drummer James Stroud, who was brought in to play a pizza box on one of the cuts. Stroud used to head the now-defunct Giant Records, and Vincent was the first act he signed to the label. That was back in the early 1990s when she was attempting to establish a career in country music. While that particular goal never came to fruition, Vincent credits Stroud with teaching her the essentials of recording and of how the music business works.
This wasn’t the first time Vincent had used pizza-box percussion on a recording session, but it was the first time Stroud had heard of such goings on.
“James thought it was a joke when I called him,” Vincent says with a chuckle. “He said, ‘Are you serious? Do you want me to do this?’ And I said, ‘Absolutely!’ He said, “If you’ll have the pizza box and brushes, I’ll be there.’ So I ran to the Pizza Hut over in Hermitage, and I got small, medium and large pizzas. We had the brushes there. He checked them out. We ended up [choosing] a medium [box], and we were good.”CMT.com
You can read the whole Rhonda Vincent interview on CMT.com.
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