At eight years old, Rhonda Vincent was in a studio recording a commercial single of Mule Skinner Blues on mandolin, and to her it was just a normal day. This deep dive traces the fifth-generation musician from her 1962 birth in Kirksville, Missouri, and her childhood in Greentop, singing gospel with the family's Sally Mountain Show at five, receiving a snare drum at six, a mandolin at eight and a fiddle at 12, and spending summers playing multiple daily sets at Silver Dollar City in Branson.

We follow her 1985 win on the Nashville Network's You Can Be a Star, her early gig backing Jim Ed Brown, the two mainstream country albums on Giant Records that failed commercially, and the accounting degree she earned at the same time that taught her how record deals really work. The episode covers her 2000 return to bluegrass with Back Home Again on R ...