Tony Rice (1977) ( )

Product Summary Label: Uni/rounder UPC: 00011661008526 Release Date: 3/1/1991 Buy.com Sku: 60195194 Item#: MCLVGS Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Banks Of The Ohio ~ Tony Rice 2. Rattlesnake ~ Tony Rice 3. Mr. Engineer ~ Tony Rice 4. Plastic Banana ~ Tony Rice 5. Don't Give Your Heart To A Rambler ~ Tony Rice 6. Farewell Blues ~ Tony Rice 7. Way Downtown ~ Tony Rice 8. Stoney Creek ~ Tony Rice 9. Hills Of Roane County ~ Tony Rice 10. Eighth Of January ~ Tony Rice 11. Big Mon ~ Tony Rice 12. Temperance Reel ~ Tony Rice   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info This eponymous release was the first of Tony Rice's many albums for the Rounder label, and hardcore bluegrass fans will probably consider it his best. Joined by an impressive roster of sidemen representing both the old and new schools of bluegrass playing (including David Grisman, J.D. Crowe, Jerry Douglas, and Darol Anger), Rice runs through a program consisting primarily of bluegrass standards but also including a number of forward-thinking modern compositions, such as David Nichtern's "Plastic Banana" and Grisman's swinging "Rattlesnake." This album is one of the early landmarks in the development of what came to be called new acoustic music, an instrumental genre that drew almost equally on bluegrass, jazz, and classical traditions and came to be championed by Rice, Grisman, Anger, and a few others in their circle. But as Rice's warm singing on "Hills of Roane County" and "Banks of the Ohio" and his fiery flatpicking on "Big Mon" and "Farewell Blues" attest, this is also a very fine straight bluegrass album. It's difficult to pick out highlights, but the joyful "Eighth of January" and the wonderful twin fiddle arrangement on "Big Mon" are both definite showstoppers. ~ Rick Anderson   Compilation Appearances Bluegrass Class Of 1990 DARK IS THE NIGHT MY SWEET LOVE AIN'T AROUND Double Time The Best Of Sugar Hill Gospel, Vol. 1: Every Time I Feel The Spirit Way Down Deep In My Soul Vol. 2 Jammed If I Do Hills Of Home-25 Years Of Folk Twenty Five Years Of Rounder Rounder 25th Anniversary Box S Vol. 2-Mystery Train Legacy 35th Anniversary Sacred Voices-Acappella Gospel Rg To Bluegrass Cool Blue & Lonesome: bluegrass For Th Rough Guide To Music Of Appalachians Will The Circle Be Unbroken: Vol. 3 White Dove-Bluegrass Gospel Collectio Heaven Bound-Best Of Bluegrass Gospel Pure Pickin: classic Bluegrass Instrum Songs Of The South Farther Along Appalachians Strings And Things:best In Blueg Tone Poets Bluegrass Hits Voice Of The Spirit Gospel Of The So Bluegrass Top 20 Gospel Songs Of Ohe Sugar Hill Records:retrospective(w/ Bonus DVD) True Bluegrass Essentials Strings And Things:best In Blueg Bluegrass:american Tradition True Bluegrass Instrumentals Best Loved Bluegrass:20 All Time Favo My Favorite Martin   Associated Artists and Works Blake & Rice ~ Blake, Norman Blake & Rice 2 ~ Blake, Norman Blake, Norman Emerson, Bill The Pizza Tapes ~ Garcia, Jerry Grisman, David Retrospective ~ O'Connor, Mark Retrospective ~ O'Connor, Mark (Violin) You Were There For Me ~ Rowan, Peter Quartet ~ Rowan, Peter Skaggs & Rice ~ Skaggs, Ricky   Technical Info Release Date : n/a Original Release Date : 1977 Catalog ID : 610 085 Label : Rounder Select Number of Discs : 1 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00011661008526    Product Image