A Dark Day for Bluegrass
December 28, 2020 9:56 AM Subscribe
Master bluegrass picker Tony Rice dies aged 69 [Grauniad]
Tony Rice, A Giant Of The Acoustic Guitar, Dead At 69 [NPR]
Tony Rice, Innovative Bluegrass Guitarist, Dead at 69 [Rolling Stone]
Tony Rice Stories: - Paying Respect To An All Time Great [Otis Gibbs]
Church Street Blues on Spotify
The Pizza Tapes Extra Large Edition on Spotify
Tony Rice on Spotify
Tony Rice, A Giant Of The Acoustic Guitar, Dead At 69 [NPR]
Tony Rice, Innovative Bluegrass Guitarist, Dead at 69 [Rolling Stone]
Tony Rice Stories: - Paying Respect To An All Time Great [Otis Gibbs]
Church Street Blues on Spotify
The Pizza Tapes Extra Large Edition on Spotify
Tony Rice on Spotify
Damn 2020 LET THE GUY HAVE HIS CHRISTMAS
posted by wheelieman at 10:23 AM on December 28, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by wheelieman at 10:23 AM on December 28, 2020 [2 favorites]
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Here's fiddle god Mark O'Connor reminiscing about meeting Tony Rice as a young player, w/ some photos from Mark's collection.
posted by Pickman's Next Top Model at 10:26 AM on December 28, 2020 [7 favorites]
Here's fiddle god Mark O'Connor reminiscing about meeting Tony Rice as a young player, w/ some photos from Mark's collection.
posted by Pickman's Next Top Model at 10:26 AM on December 28, 2020 [7 favorites]
I was a freshman in high school, bored to death with pop music when a library record, checked out completely at random, with Rice playing, really caught my ear. What an introduction to a whole different world. RIP, Mr Rice.
posted by 2N2222 at 11:02 AM on December 28, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by 2N2222 at 11:02 AM on December 28, 2020 [2 favorites]
Manzanita is a beautiful album and the work he did with Peter Rowan is good. I hope he had a happy life.
posted by rdr at 11:23 AM on December 28, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by rdr at 11:23 AM on December 28, 2020 [1 favorite]
Big influence on pretty much everybody in bluegrass. He's already missed. RIP
posted by blob at 12:20 PM on December 28, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by blob at 12:20 PM on December 28, 2020 [1 favorite]
There's a mid-1970s episode of a Kentucky public television show with The New South on YouTube. The Old Home Place features him but there's other great numbers, like Ten Degrees & Getting Colder and Sin City. The whole thing is great.
posted by bonobothegreat at 12:20 PM on December 28, 2020 [3 favorites]
posted by bonobothegreat at 12:20 PM on December 28, 2020 [3 favorites]
Tony Rice and his Holy Grail Martin D-28
posted by blob at 12:26 PM on December 28, 2020 [6 favorites]
posted by blob at 12:26 PM on December 28, 2020 [6 favorites]
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posted by little onion at 12:36 PM on December 28, 2020
posted by little onion at 12:36 PM on December 28, 2020
My favourite moment on the Pizza Tapes (Garcia, Grisman, Rice) is Jerry remarking that Tony was getting better tone than Clarence did on the famous D-28. Tony demurred humbly, saying perhaps he was louder but not better. "Louder is better. On this planet, louder is better." Such an incredible player.
posted by Lorin at 1:04 PM on December 28, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by Lorin at 1:04 PM on December 28, 2020 [2 favorites]
Here's fiddle god Mark O'Connor reminiscing about meeting Tony Rice as a young player, w/ some photos from Mark's collection.
I had forgotten that O'Connor plays guitar, too, despite seeing him do so live on one song, uh, 38 years ago, with The Dregs. Wonderful photos.
posted by thelonius at 3:43 PM on December 28, 2020 [2 favorites]
I had forgotten that O'Connor plays guitar, too, despite seeing him do so live on one song, uh, 38 years ago, with The Dregs. Wonderful photos.
posted by thelonius at 3:43 PM on December 28, 2020 [2 favorites]
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posted by Liquidwolf at 5:16 PM on December 28, 2020
posted by Liquidwolf at 5:16 PM on December 28, 2020
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Just gonna leave a couple of things here:
If people are looking for a nice entree into what the fuss about Tony Rice was about, you could do worse than The Bluegrass Guitar Collection -- it's a fantastic album of instrumentals and it's what really introduced me to his playing.
On Jan Johansson's Acoustic Music YouTube channel, he's got a whole bunch of Tony Rice/Tony Rice Unit live recordings posted.
Apparently, he just used to call up Tony Rice and chat and, in some cases, recorded it, so he's got this lengthy phone conversation from 2019: As Tony Sees It - A Conversation with Tony Rice (it runs just over 47 minutes).
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 7:36 AM on December 29, 2020 [1 favorite]
Just gonna leave a couple of things here:
If people are looking for a nice entree into what the fuss about Tony Rice was about, you could do worse than The Bluegrass Guitar Collection -- it's a fantastic album of instrumentals and it's what really introduced me to his playing.
On Jan Johansson's Acoustic Music YouTube channel, he's got a whole bunch of Tony Rice/Tony Rice Unit live recordings posted.
Apparently, he just used to call up Tony Rice and chat and, in some cases, recorded it, so he's got this lengthy phone conversation from 2019: As Tony Sees It - A Conversation with Tony Rice (it runs just over 47 minutes).
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 7:36 AM on December 29, 2020 [1 favorite]
Richard Hoover, of Santa Cruz Guitar Company. (that link might expire the next time they update their main page. Backup of text found here.)
posted by blob at 4:12 PM on December 29, 2020
posted by blob at 4:12 PM on December 29, 2020
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posted by aspersioncast at 6:13 PM on December 29, 2020
posted by aspersioncast at 6:13 PM on December 29, 2020
aw shoot
posted by abuckamoon at 5:45 PM on January 1, 2021
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That is just so wrong. Let the man have his coffee first, at least.
posted by thelonius at 10:09 AM on December 28, 2020 [4 favorites]