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About the video
Tony Rice, Rickie Simpkins, Ronnie Simpkins, Jimmy Gaudreau, & Wyatt Rice
About the artists
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.
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