Guitariste
et chanteur Bluegrass US né David Anthony Rice,
le 8 juin 1951 à Danville (Virginie).
Tony Rice
is one of bluegrass' most inventive flatpicking guitar players. Although he's
displayed a mastery of the genre's traditions, Rice set the standard for more
contemporary styles. A former member of
the Bluegrass Alliance, the
David Grisman Quintet, J.D. Crowe's New South, and the Bluegrass Album Band,
Rice has continued to reflect his eclectic approach on solo recordings, two
albums with flatpicking guitar ace Norman Blake, and two albums, recorded with
his brothers Larry, Ron, and Wyatt, as the Rice Brothers. In 1996, Rice joined
with Chris Hillman, Herb Pedersen, and his brother
Larry to record a tradition-rooted
album, Out of the Woodwork.
Raised in Southern California, Rice inherited his musical skill from his father,
who played with several West Coast bluegrass bands and was heavily influenced by
California-based bluegrass groups, including
the Dillards and the Kentucky
Colonels, which featured influential guitar picker Clarence White. Moving
temporarily to Kentucky in 1970, Rice became a charter member of
the Bluegrass Alliance, one of
the earliest contemporary bluegrass groups. As a member of J.D. Crowe's New
South in the early '70s, along with Ricky
Skaggs and Jerry Douglas, he continued to promote a new approach to the
music of the hill country. After meeting imaginative mandolin player David
Grisman during a jam session in 1975, Rice returned to California and helped to
form the David Grisman Quintet. During the five years that he played with the
group, Rice helped to lay the foundation for the "new grass" style that Grisman
dubbed "Dawg Music."
Leaving
the Grisman Quintet, Rice formed a bluegrass supergroup, the Bluegrass Album
Band, with J.D. Crowe, Bobby Hicks,
Doyle Lawson, and Todd Phillips. Although only a part-time venture, the
group produced five memorable albums.
Rice's albums as a soloist and with his band, the Tony Rice Unit, have ranged
from the jazz-tinged Mar West, which included bluegrass-style treatments
of tunes by Miles Davis and John Coltrane, to singer/songwriter-oriented albums,
including Cold on the Shoulder, Native American, and Me & My
Guitar, which featured his virtuosic guitar picking and soulful vocalizing
of songs by Ian Tyson, Phil Ochs, and
Gordon Lightfoot. Rice released
an album-length collection of
Lightfoot's songs, Sings Gordon Lightfoot, in 1996. Rice has
continued to interpret the traditional bluegrass repertoire as well, releasing
an album of old chestnuts, Plays and Sings Bluegrass, the same year.
Although he's recently experienced vocal problems that have prevented him from
singing, Rice continues to amaze audiences with his masterful guitar playing.
Talents : Guitar, Vocal
Style musical : Traditional Bluegrass, Progressive Bluegrass, New Acoustic
JERUSALEM
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Années en activité :
| 1910 | 20 | 30 | 40 | 50 | 60 | 70 | 80 | 90 | 2000 |
DISCOGRAPHY
Albums
| 1977 | LP 12" ROUNDER 0085 (US) |
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TONY RICE - Banks Of The Ohio / Rattlesnake / Mr. Engineer / Plastic Banana / Don't Give Your Heart To A Rambler / Farewell Blues / Way Downtown / Stoney Creek / Hills Of Roane County / Eighth Of January / Big Mon / Temperance Reel |
| 1979 | LP 12" KALEIDOSCOPE F-10 (US) |
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ACOUSTICS - (Tony RICE UNIT) - Gasology / Blues For Paradise / Old Gray Coat / Four On Six / So Much / Swing '51 / New Waltz / Fast Floyd |
| 1979 | LP 12" ROUNDER 0092 (US) |
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MANZANITA - (Tony RICE UNIT) - Old Train / Manzanita / Little Sadie / Blackberry Blossom / Nine Pound Hammer / Hold Whatcha Got / Blue Railroad Train / Ginseng Sullivan / Midnight On The Stormy Deep / I Hope You Have Learned / Stony Point / Home From The Forest |
| 197? | LP 12" REBEL 1582 (US) |
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GUITAR - Freeborn Man / Faded Love / Salt Creek / Doing My Time / Windy And Warm / John Hardy / Nine Pound Hammer / Lonesome Reuben |
| 1980 | LP 12" ROUNDER 125 (US) |
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MAR WEST - (Tony RICE UNIT) - Mar West / Nardis / Waltz For Indira / Neon Tetra / Is That So / Whoa Baby, Every Day I Wake Up With The Blues / Mar East / Untitled As Of Yet |
| 1980 | LP 12" SUGAR HILL SH 3711 (US) |
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SKAGGS AND RICE - (Ricky SKAGGS & Tony RICE) - Bury Me Beneath The Weeping Willow Tree / Mansions For Me / There's More Pretty Girls Than One / Memories Of Mother And Dad / Where The Soul Never Dies / Talk About Sufferin' / Will The Roses Bloom / Tennessee Blues / Old Crossroad Is Waiting / Have You Someone (In Heaven Waiting) |
| 1981 | LP 12" ROUNDER 150 (US) |
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STILL INSIDE - (Tony RICE UNIT) - Within Specs / Devlin / Mr. Diffenbach / Night Coach / Vonetta / Tzigani / E B A / Moses Sole / Birdland Breakdown / Makers Mark |
| 1982 | LP 12" ROUNDER 0167 (US) |
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BACKWATERS - (Tony RICE UNIT) - Common Ground / Just Some Bar In The French Quarters / Backwaters / My Favorite Things / A Child Is Born / On Green Dolphin Street / Mobius Mambo |
| 1983 | LP 12" SUGAR HILL SH-3732 (US) |
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CHURCH STREET BLUES - Church Street Blues / Cattle In The Cane / Streets Of London / One More Night / The Gold Rush / Any Old Time / Orphan Annie / House Carpenter / Jerusalem Ridge / Last Thing On My Mind / Pride Of Man / Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald |
| 1984 | LP 12" ROUNDER 0183 (US) |
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COLD ON THE SHOULDER - Cold On The Shoulder / Wayfaring Stranger / John Hardy / Fare Thee Well / Bitter Green / Mule Skinner Blues / Song For Life / Why Don't You Tell Me So / If You Only Knew / Likes Of Me / I Think It's Going To Rain Today |
| 1986 | LP 12" ROUNDER 0201 (US) |
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ME & MY GUITAR - Me And My Guitar / Four Strong Winds / Walls / Greenlight On The Southern / Port Tobacco / Early Morning Rain / Sixteen Miles / Hard Love / Tipper / Song For A Winter's Night / Sweetheart Like You / Fine As Fine Can Be |
| 1987 | LP 12" ROUNDER 0233 (US) |
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BLAKE & RICE - (Norman BLAKE & Tony RICE) - New Chance Blues / Greenlight On The Southern / I'm Not Sayin' / Texas Gales / Ridge Road Gravel / Monroe's Hornpipe / Last Train From Poor Valley / New River Train / Stoney Point / Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar / Little Beggarman - Gilderoy / The Shipyard Apprentice / Medley: Fiddler's Dream -Whiskey Before Breakfast / I'm Coming Back (But I Don't Know When) |
| 1987 | CD ROUNDER CD-11531 (US) |
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DEVLIN - (Tony RICE UNIT) - Devlin / Is That So / Waltz For Indira / Within Specs / Untitled As Of Yet / Neon Tetra / Night Coach / Nardis / EBA / Mar West / Moses Sole / Birdland Breakdown / Whoa Baby, Every Day I Wake Up With The Blues / Vonetta / Makers Mark |
| 1988 | LP 12" ROUNDER 0248 (US) |
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NATIVE AMERICAN - Shadows / St. James Hospital / Night Flyer / Why Have You Been Gone So Long / Urge For Going / Go My Way / Nothin' Like A Hundred Miles / Changes / Brother To The Wind / John Wilkes Booth / Summer Wages |
| 1990 | CD ROUNDER CD-0266 (US) |
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NORMAN BLAKE & TONY RICE 2 - It's Raining Here This Morning / Lost Indian / Georgie / Father's Hall / The Two Soldiers / Blackberry Blossom / Eight More Miles To Louisville / Lincoln's Funeral Train / Molly Bloom / D-18 Song (Thank You, Mr. Martin) / Back In Yonder's World / Bright Days / Salt Creek |
| 1993 | CD ROUNDER CD-0253 (US) |
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PLAYS AND SINGS BLUEGRASS - I've Waited As Long As I Can / Brown Mountain Light / How Mountain Girls Can Love / Carolina Star / Thunderclouds Of Love / On And On / This Morning At Nine / I Wonder Where You Are Tonight / Galveston Flood / Will You Be Loving Another Man? / Girl From The North Country / Ain't Nobody Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone / I'll Stay Around |
| 10/1993 | CD SUGAR HILL SH-CD-3711 (US) |
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SKAGGS AND RICE - (Ricky SKAGGS & Tony RICE) - Bury Me Beneath The Weeping Willow Tree / Mansions For Me / There's More Pretty Girls Than One / Memories Of Mother And Dad / Where The Soul Never Dies / Talk About Sufferin' / Will The Roses Bloom / Tennessee Blues / Old Crossroad Is Waiting / Have You Someone (In Heaven Waiting) |
| 1994 | CD REBEL 1549 (US) |
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CALIFORNIA AUTUMN - California Autumn / Bullet Man / Mr. Poverty / Billy In The Low Ground / Red Haired Boy / Good Woman's Love / You Don't Know My Mind / Alone And Forsaken / Bugle Call Rag / Georgia On My Mind / Scarborough Fair / Beaumont Rag |
| 12/1994 | CD MOUNTAIN HOME 105 (US) |
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CROSSINGS - In The Sweet By And By / I Have Decided To Follow Jesus / Swing Low, Sweet Chariot / Holy, Holy, Holy / Living By Faith / Amazing Grace / Victory In Jesus / Sweet Hour Of Prayer / I Feel Like Traveling On / Just As I Am / Are You Washed In The Blood? / Doxology |
| 1995 | CD SUGAR HILL 3837 (US) |
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RIVER SUITE FOR TWO GUITARS - (Tony RICE & John CARLINI) - Banister River / Send In The Clowns / Innocenti / So It Goes / Nardis / Unknown Emotion - Hidden Place / Fish Scale / Night Coach / Big Mang / Summertime / It Takes A Thief / Devlin |
| 06/1996 | CD ROUNDER 610370 (US) |
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SINGS GORDON LIGHTFOOT - Go My Way / Home From The Forest / Fine As Fine Can Be / Let It Ride / I'm Not Sayin' / Bitter Green / You Are What I Am / Shadows / Walls / Whispers Of The North / Ten Degrees (Getting Colder) / Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald / Early Morning Rain / Whisper My Name / Sixteen Miles / Cold On The Shoulder / Song For A Winter's Night |
| 01/1997 | CD ROUNDER 390 (US) |
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OUT OF THE WOODWORK - (Tony RICE, Larry RICE, Chris HILLMAN, & Herb PEDERSEN) - Hard Times / Lord, Won't You Help Me / Somewhere On The Road Tonight / No One Else / Streetcorner Stranger / So Begins The Task / Dimming Of The Day / Just Me And You / Do Right Woman / Change Coming Down / Story Of Love / Only Passing Through |
| 10/1999 | CD ROUNDER 610450 (US) |
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RICE, RICE, HILLMAN & PEDERSEN - (Tony RICE, Larry RICE, Chris HILLMAN, & Herb PEDERSEN) - Doesn't Mean That Much Anymore / Side Effects Of Love / One Of These Days / Never Ending Song Of Love / Friend Of The Devil / Out Among The Stars / Moonshine / Moment Of Glory / The Year Of El Niño / Hearts Overflowing / I Will / The Walkin' Blues / I'll Be On That Good Road Someday |
| 10/2000 | CD ROUNDER 610405 (US) |
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UNIT OF MEASURE - (Tony RICE UNIT) - Manzanita [1st Variation] / House Of The Rising Sun / Shenandoh / Gold Rush / Jerusalem Ridge / High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me) / Beaumont Rag / Swing '42 / An Olde Irish Aire (Danny Boy) / Sally Goodin' |
| 10/2001 | CD ROUNDER 0483 (US) |
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RUNNIN' WILD - (Tony RICE, Larry RICE, Chris HILLMAN, & Herb PEDERSEN) - San Antone / You're Running wild / Things We Said Today / 4 + 20 / Two Of A Kind / Just Passin' Through / The Mystery That Won't Go Away / Take Me Back Again / Maybe She'll Get Lucky / Hard-Hearted / It's A Long Way To The Top Of The World / About Love |
| 11/2002 | CD VIVID SOUND 153 (JAP) |
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ACOUSTIC SWING - Gasology / Blues For Paradise / Old Gray Coat / Four On Six / So Much / Swing '51 / New Walts / Fast Floyd |
| 11/2003 | CD ROUNDER 611622 (US) |
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THE BLUEGRASS GUITAR COLLECTION - Tipper / Monroe's Hornpipe / Jerusalem Ridge / New Chance Blues / Blackberry Blossom / Medley: Fiddler's Dram - Whiskey Before Breakfast / Whitewater / Lost Indian / Stoney Point / Misty Morning / Gold Rush / Foggy Mountain Rock / Stoney Creek / Home Sweet Home / Bill Cheatham / Stoney Lonesome / Soldier's Joy / Cheyenne / Big Mon / Birdland Breakdown / Port Tobacco |
| 09/2004 | CD ROUNDER 610441 (US) |
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YOU WERE THERE FOR ME - (Peter ROWAN & Tony RICE) - You Were There For Me / Tin Roof Shack / Shirt Off My Back / Miss Liberty (Lay My Lonesome Down) / Cowboys And Indians / Ahmed The Beggar Boy / Angel Island / Ain't That Just Like You / Come Back To Old Santa Fe / Wild Mustang |
| 2006 | CD ROUNDER 11661 (US) |
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QUARTET - (Peter ROWAN & Tony RICE) - Dust Bowl Children / To Live Is To Fly / The Walls Of Time / Shady Grove / Moonlight Midnight / Trespasses / The Sunny Side Of The Mountain / Cold Rain And Snow / Guardian Angles / Let The Harvest Go To Seed / Perfection |
| 12/2006 | CD FLATT MOUNTAIN FMR001 (US) |
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VASSAR CLEMENTS, TONY RICE & THE LOW COUNTRY ALL-STAR BAND - Ground Speed / Mountain Girl / Kissimee Kid / Billy In The Lowground / Dark Hollow / Salt Creek / Toy Heart / I Wonder Where You Are Tonight / Unwound / Lonesome Fiddle Blues / Wayfaring Stranger / Wheel Hoss |
| 07/2008 | CD ROUNDER 611619 (US) |
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NIGHT FLYER - THE SINGER SONGWRITER COLLECTION - Never Meant To Be / Urge For Going / Me And My Guitar / St. James Hospital / John Wilkes Booth / Four Strong Winds / Night Flyer / He Rode All The Way To Texas / About Love / Changes / Sweetheart Like You / Green Light On The Southern / Hard Love / Why You Been Gone So Long / Wayfaring Stranger / Likes Of Me / Pony |
| 04/2011 | CD ROUNDER 11661-9 |
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THE BILL MONROE COLLECTION - I'm On My Way Back To The Old Home / When You Are Lonely / Jerusalem Ridge / Muleskinner Blues / Sittin' Alone In The Moonlight / Stoney Lonesome / Molly And Tenbrooks / River Of Death / Gold Rush / On And On / I Believe In You Darling / Cheyenne / Little Cabin Home On The Hill / You're Drifting Away |
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