#Tony Rice

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My Grapes On The Vine is up! Cover I used to do a while back but forgot 🤎🎶

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Today we remember Hall of Fame member Tony Rice, born on this day, June 8, 1951. Rice is considered one of the most influential guitarists in bluegrass music. Born into a musical family, he went on to play with Bluegrass Alliance, JD Crowe & The New South, David Grisman Quintet, Bluegrass Album Band, and several solo projects including The Tony Rice Unit.

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Jerry Garcia, Tony Rice and David Grisam - the Pizza Tapes - Man of constant sorrow

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Jerry Garcia: A Bluegrass Journey Will Open at the Bluegrass Hall of Fame in 2024

- “It all started with bluegrass,” Billy Strings says of Garcia’s long, strange trip

Though he’s most associated with a long, strange rock ’n’ roll trip, Jerry Garcia’s bluegrass wanderings will be the focus of an upcoming exhibit at the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum.

“It all started with bluegrass,” Billy Strings says in a trailer for the exhibit.

Jerry Garcia: A Bluegrass Journey kicks off March 29-30, 2024, with concerts highlighting Garcia’s music with Old & in the Way, David Grisman and the Grateful Dead’s acoustic side. Leftover Salmon will serve as house band alongside “special guests” to be announced later.

“Jerry Garcia really provided that repertoire to a whole new generation … many of the Grateful Dead songs have become parts of the bluegrass canon,” Vince Herman said.

Garcia’s Journey will remain open for two years at the Kentucky museum and will include the Dead man’s banjos, an acoustic and pedal steel guitar alongside other artifacts, interactive displays and exclusive interviews occupying 2,000 square feet.

“When I found out Jerry was originally a banjo player, his guitar playing somehow starting making even more sense,” Jacob Groopman says.

But some people, like hall of fame Executive Director Chris Joslin, came for the bluegrass and stayed for the bluegrass.

“As a bluegrass musician, I have long been a fan of Jerry Garcia’s banjo work with … Grisman, Tony Rice, Vassar Clements and others,” he said in a statement. “This exhibit tells the story an American music legend who simply set out to be a solid musician and to make the music that spoke to his heart.”

10/10/23

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Tony Rice Allstars (Tony Rice, Mark O'Connor, Bela Fleck, Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, and Mark Schatz) perform "Whitewater" live at Merlefest 1992.

"...aka the acoustic allstars/super pickers, aka the hottest festy allstar set known to humankind"

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Mark O'Connor violin, Tony Rice guitar, Jerry Douglas dobro, Sam Bush mandolin, Mark Schatz bass and Bela Fleck banjo performing “Freeborn Man“. Merlefest early 1990's. ________________________ Freeborn Man Songwriters: Keith Allison and Mark Lindsay

I was born in the Southland

Some twenty odd years ago

I ran away for the first time When I was only four years old

I'm a freeborn man My home is on my back I know every inch of highway Every foot of back road Every mile of railroad track

I got a lady in Cincinnati

A woman in San Antone

And I always love the girl next door But any place is home

I'm a freeborn man Home is on my back I know every inch of highway Every foot of back road Every mile of railroad track

And I got me a worn out guitar

I carry an old tone sack

And I hocked it about two hundred times But I always get it back

I'm a freeborn man Home is on my back I know every inch of highway Every foot of back road Every mile of railroad track

Well, you may not like my appearance

You may not like my song

You may not like the way I talk But you sure like the way I'm gone

I'm a freeborn man Home is on my back I know every inch of highway Every foot of back road Every mile of railroad track

I was born in the Southland

Some twenty odd years ago

I ran away for the first time When I was only four years old

I'm a freeborn man Home is on my back I know every inch of highway Every foot of back road Every mile of railroad track

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For anyone who thought Tony Rice was all pointless but technically precise noodling, this cut will be a revelation.

There's the quiet, mannered, tea-time intro. Then, the sound comes in, muscular, vital, 10 dB hotter -- and, with it, light.

It's as though someone has torn a pair of dusty curtains from a sunny window, and the effect never fails to surprise. "Is this who Tony Rice was?" -- then, the suffering when you realize what you missed.

Nothing for it now. Just come refresh yourself with some of the best progressive bluegrass ever recorded -- Tony Rice and "Why You Been Gone So Long".

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One leads down to distruction,

The other to the pearly gates.

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Tarzan and the Lost Outpost of Atlantis - art by Tony DeZuniga (c. 2010)

[vrieseasees]

Sometimes I wonder if Chopper was an irl doctor.. would he take the D.O. route or the M.D. route?

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Peter: *stumbles into the compound, hurt*

Tony: Oh mY goD!

Peter: *slurred* Hey guys *passes out*

Tony: What do we do!? Where's Bruce!?

Harley: I don't know... maybe we should try sticking him in rice?

[gratefulfrog]

"It's our duty to allow Bluegrass music to grow and flourish, and at the same time, retain the most important part of it. And that is the essence of the sound of real Bluegrass music." - Tony Rice

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who's winning? Real talk

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Song Review: Mighty Poplar - “Tipper” (Live 2022)

Before announcing its self-titled debut, Mighty Poplar was gigging and no doubt blowing minds with its lineup and prowess.

The bluegrass supergroup - Watchhouse’s Andrew Marlin on mandolin; Billy Strings’ fiddler Alex Hargreaves; Punch Brothers Chris Eldridge and Noam Pikelny on guitar and banjo, respectively; and Leftover Salmon bassist Greg Garrison - played Tony Rice’s “Tipper” at the 2022 Green Mountain Bluegrass & Roots festival in Vermont.

The resulting video shows a piecemeal band as tight as a full-timer as solos pass around the stage like a moonshine jug. But everyone retains his wits, even as the Punches on stage look jarring in jeans and caps as opposed to the formalwear of their main band.

The instrumental “Tipper” does not appear on the quintet’s forthcoming (March 31) LP, though the case can be made. Perhaps a live followup is planned.

Here’s hoping.

Grade card: Mighty Poplar - “Tipper” (Live 2022) - A-

3/9/23

[thecoolguy24601]

Question of the day:

Who would the Delicious in Dungeon squad’s favorite cereal mascot be?