Uploaded February 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
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Alex DePue guests "The Queen of Bluegrass" RHONDA VINCENT on this, DePue's heartfelt remake of Merle Haggard's classic hit, "Workin' Man Blues".
Miss Vincent crosses WAY over the line from what she is famous worldwide... traditional Bluegrass. This new and edgy, raspy and rockier, even Janis-Joplin-esque representation of Rhonda's voice which lives within (must be Vincent's alter-ego?), is entirely convincing!
Rhonda Vincent digs deep into this performance with a fervor, as per DePue's pre-planned and constructed production requests (we saw the email). As a matter of fact, the Country staple has never been belted forth with such angst, passion, and woe until now, the performance DePue deems, "The Greatest Ever".
And though DePue is known for calling almost everything he does, "The Greatest Ever", we have to stop and wonder... is he right?
Everything we've ever heard from this very American fiddler has lived up to every description for which he (and countless others) have prescribed. His contemporary pop arrangements for solo violin, seen freely all over Google, are considered "unplayable" by any other violinists/fiddlers alive, and yet he still barely exists within the shadows of whatever we're calling, "the music industry" in 2019. Almost zero visibility. And though the sheet music for his arrangements might indeed exist, and even with those well-written, accurate blue-prints, violinists continue to stumble and stammer with the material. It will not ever equate for any other violinist anything like "success" at matching DePue's solo violin sound... not even almost. Until we can upload the consciousness of another mortal being into the body of another, it will continue to be only Alex DePue, the only violinist alive to have cornered the market on this original sound. Everyone knows it, but seemingly cares not to acknowledge. The Kansas-City Tribune, however, nailed it right on the head:
"ALEX DEPUE IS ONE OF THE LEADING IMPROV VIOLINISTS OF HIS GENERATION, WITH LEGENDARY PROWESS IN BLUEGRASS, ROCK, CLASSICAL, AND JAZZ/BLUES…" - Kansas-City Tribune
What fans DePue does have, are absolutely fascinated that he lived to tell about these stories. We've heard just a few, but some of them are so heart wrenching that we'll have to reserve for other articles. Just know that if ever there ever were an instrument through which one can express his/herself, it is the violin. There are spirits which lie within the sound of the individual using this tool, that simply cannot become accessed any other way. To hear DePue play the violin, is to better understand his life story. That's it in a nut-shell.
Back to the video! Even this video of "Workin' Man Blues", this hit remake from DePue's latest full-album release, "Modern Paganini", is on par with anything we can find via mainstream media. A six-camera video from downtown Nashville, Tennessee, this smoky bar-room (American Legion Post), live-band performance belongs on a major network like Country Music Television.
"Why is Alex DePue not featured on America's Got Talent?", is a question often asked by those in tune with the musical world just enough to know The Fiddler's name, and that does include the producers for AGT. They reached out to HIM back in 2008, and then never followed up on the when and where of it all. Another aspect gained from experiencing Alex DePue live in performance, is the realization that the violin can become all kinds of cool. DePue seems to ooze cool through the f-holes of his violin, and it subsequently pours out over everyone there to witness it. Sometimes he's playing melodic and beautiful passages, and sometimes he's literally smacking the wooden violin with his bow, albeit in rhythm.
For the remake, "Workin' Man Blues" by Merle Haggard, featuring singer Rhonda Vincent, and playing electric guitar on the track, and also seen in the same video, is yet another musical (this time guitar) legend. Mr. John Carroll plays expertly along with DePue's fiddle (the two worked together for years backing up former Country music sensation, Chris Cagle), and the band's groove from the rhythm section sounds like The Little Engine That COULD. A big, phat groove accompanies the genius prowess set forth by those timbres living above the bass frequencies, and what we've left with as listeners? Answer: A full sonic spread of nothing less than "world-class", from beginning to end. It's almost four full minutes of kickin' Country Music.
#LongLegs
#farmhouse
#momanddad
#towinstuff
#MerleHaggard
#Workin'ManBlues
#violin
#fiddle
#ModernPaganini
#strings
#viola
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SUPPORT: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr... The Fiddler, seen here playing a new GLASSER elec. violin:
#CountryMusic
#Country
#AlexDePue
#Nashville
Alex DePue guests "The Queen of Bluegrass" RHONDA VINCENT on this, DePue's heartfelt remake of Merle Haggard's classic hit, "Workin' Man Blues".
Miss Vincent crosses WAY over the line from what she is famous worldwide... traditional Bluegrass. This new and edgy, raspy and rockier, even Janis-Joplin-esque representation of Rhonda's voice which lives within (must be Vincent's alter-ego?), is entirely convincing!
Rhonda Vincent digs deep into this performance with a fervor, as per DePue's pre-planned and constructed production requests (we saw the email). As a matter of fact, the Country staple has never been belted forth with such angst, passion, and woe until now, the performance DePue deems, "The Greatest Ever".
And though DePue is known for calling almost everything he does, "The Greatest Ever", we have to stop and wonder... is he right?
Everything we've ever heard from this very American fiddler has lived up to every description for which he (and countless others) have prescribed. His contemporary pop arrangements for solo violin, seen freely all over Google, are considered "unplayable" by any other violinists/fiddlers alive, and yet he still barely exists within the shadows of whatever we're calling, "the music industry" in 2019. Almost zero visibility. And though the sheet music for his arrangements might indeed exist, and even with those well-written, accurate blue-prints, violinists continue to stumble and stammer with the material. It will not ever equate for any other violinist anything like "success" at matching DePue's solo violin sound... not even almost. Until we can upload the consciousness of another mortal being into the body of another, it will continue to be only Alex DePue, the only violinist alive to have cornered the market on this original sound. Everyone knows it, but seemingly cares not to acknowledge. The Kansas-City Tribune, however, nailed it right on the head:
"ALEX DEPUE IS ONE OF THE LEADING IMPROV VIOLINISTS OF HIS GENERATION, WITH LEGENDARY PROWESS IN BLUEGRASS, ROCK, CLASSICAL, AND JAZZ/BLUES…" - Kansas-City Tribune
What fans DePue does have, are absolutely fascinated that he lived to tell about these stories. We've heard just a few, but some of them are so heart wrenching that we'll have to reserve for other articles. Just know that if ever there ever were an instrument through which one can express his/herself, it is the violin. There are spirits which lie within the sound of the individual using this tool, that simply cannot become accessed any other way. To hear DePue play the violin, is to better understand his life story. That's it in a nut-shell.
Back to the video! Even this video of "Workin' Man Blues", this hit remake from DePue's latest full-album release, "Modern Paganini", is on par with anything we can find via mainstream media. A six-camera video from downtown Nashville, Tennessee, this smoky bar-room (American Legion Post), live-band performance belongs on a major network like Country Music Television.
"Why is Alex DePue not featured on America's Got Talent?", is a question often asked by those in tune with the musical world just enough to know The Fiddler's name, and that does include the producers for AGT. They reached out to HIM back in 2008, and then never followed up on the when and where of it all. Another aspect gained from experiencing Alex DePue live in performance, is the realization that the violin can become all kinds of cool. DePue seems to ooze cool through the f-holes of his violin, and it subsequently pours out over everyone there to witness it. Sometimes he's playing melodic and beautiful passages, and sometimes he's literally smacking the wooden violin with his bow, albeit in rhythm.
For the remake, "Workin' Man Blues" by Merle Haggard, featuring singer Rhonda Vincent, and playing electric guitar on the track, and also seen in the same video, is yet another musical (this time guitar) legend. Mr. John Carroll plays expertly along with DePue's fiddle (the two worked together for years backing up former Country music sensation, Chris Cagle), and the band's groove from the rhythm section sounds like The Little Engine That COULD. A big, phat groove accompanies the genius prowess set forth by those timbres living above the bass frequencies, and what we've left with as listeners? Answer: A full sonic spread of nothing less than "world-class", from beginning to end. It's almost four full minutes of kickin' Country Music.
#LongLegs
#farmhouse
#momanddad
#towinstuff
#MerleHaggard
#Workin'ManBlues
#violin
#fiddle
#ModernPaganini
#strings
#viola
north carolina mandolin fender cmt cmt crossroads the-fiddler-llc.com
spontaneousrecords.com
