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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
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Purchase Tony Rice CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Tony Rice California Autumn CD (1975)
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Rice splits the material on California Autumn between vocal numbers and instrumentals while resurrecting old-time songs including "Billy in the Lowground," "Beaumont Rag" and "Red Haired Boy." ~ Jason Ankeny
Recorded at Track Recorders, Silver Spring, Maryland.
Personnel: Tony Rice (vocals, guitar); John Starling (guitar); Jerry Douglas , Mike Auldridge (dobro); J.D. Crowe, Ben Eldridge (banjo); Ricky Skaggs (mandolin, fiddle, viola); Larry Rice (mandolin).
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| | Tony Rice Guitar CD (1970)
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On Guitar, Rice focuses on instrumental renditions of songs like "Lonesome Reuben" and "Faded Love." Among the guests are J.D. Crowe and Bobby Slone. ...
| | Tony Rice Church Street Blues CD (1983)
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Church Street Blues is essentially a solo album by Tony Rice, demonstrating his musical eclecticism -- the record features everything from contemporary folk to traditional country ...
| | Tony Rice Manzanita CD (1979)
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Comprised of both traditional songs and contemporary numbers, Manzanita was the third record in a row to demonstrate Tony Rice's considerable instrumental ...
| | Tony Rice Cold On The Shoulder CD (1984)
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| | Tony Rice Plays And Sings Bluegrass CD (1993)
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Tony Rice, one of the most innovative guitarists to emerge from the "third generation" of bluegrass musicians, returns to his roots on TONY RICE PLAYS AND SINGS BLUEGRASS, his first real bluegrass album since 1977. This collection of classics, mostly from the '50s and '60s, is given an exuberant reading by Rice and his band of bluegrass veterans.
Rice's lead vocals evoke the "high lonesome" sound of Bill Monroe. His guitar work is stunning in its attack, rhythmic intensity, and choice of notes--his solo on Lester Flatt's "I'll Stay Around" twists and turns, hits a few pungent blue notes, and is gone, all in eight bars, while the guitar break on "Thunderclouds of Love" explodes in a flurry of notes and slurred jazz chords. Dobro star Jerry Douglas adds his unmistakable fluid touch. Bill Emerson, a founding member of the Country Gentlemen, is on hand to play some hellified banjo and to pass the ...
| | Daryl Coley Christmas Is Here CD (1999)
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Daryl Coley's first release with his ten-member vocal backing unit Beloved is a holiday album titled Christmas Is Here, which features a number of well-known, mostly religious carols mixed with a sprinkling of newly composed originals. Coley's talent shines through, as usual, and the project is a good way for his new vocal group to get ...
| | Mark Nelson Southern Light CD (1986)
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Mark Nelson again demonstrates his exceptional dulcimer skills on the fine Southern Light. Playing both originals and standards, Nelson displays ...
| | Utah Phillips Moscow Hold & Other Stories CD (1999)
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Utah Phillips, hot off his collaborations with Ani Difranco, returns to his primary vocation: that of teller of tall and hysterical tales. At times his one-liners verge on the vaudevillian, but he is always irreverent. Culled from performances between 1977-99 (the bulk of the material here was recorded in the late '80s and mid-'90s) Phillips takes on new agers and political correctness: It's his prerogative as a Northern California lefty. A master of the put-down (he even zings the untouchable Leonard Cohen), Phillips makes the perfect traveling companion -- the kind of guy you want in the seat next to you on a never ending road trip, spinning yarns the whole way home. ~ Denise Sullivan
Utah Phillips has crafted a fascinating show out of his life. In the course of seventy years he has labored as a dishwasher, archivist, printer, and warehouseman; soldiered in the Korean War; lived as a tramp (he is still a Grand Duke of Hoboes), and for the past 36 years made his way telling stories and singing songs. He has the wit, humor, bite, and intelligence of a Mark Twain or a Will Rogers, and behind his "Everyman" appearance is a consummate artist. Peppered with one-liners and offhand philosophical commentary, Utah's revealing stories, about such spirited American characters as Charley Goodnight, Mother Jones, and Idaho Blackie, tell our true history and connect us to American traditions that are genuinely ours.Utah Phillips is described as "a national treasure, a writer of haunting songs, a storyteller of hilarious presence and subtle depth, a union organizer, historian and scholar, a Celtic-Yiddish bard, a Pleistocene bon vivant, a post-modern ne'er-do-well, and a heck of an engineer." A 40-year member of the Industrial Workers of the World, he is the most entertaining labor troubadour of our time, leading his audience on an emotional rollercoaster with side-splitting storytelling and fire-breathing working class songs. According to one reviewer, "Phillips exemplifies some of the traits which Americans most value: an open and inquisitive mind, a daring heart, and a sharp but humorous tongue." The Boston Globe said, "Phillips above all is a consummate showman, a master of the theater...Phillips has a genius for making people laugh and care at the same time." He is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award presented by the North American Folk Alliance, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Western Labor Heritage Foundation, and the Joe Hill Award ...
| | Pickin On Pickin' On Peter Frampton: The Bluegrass Tribute CD (2001)
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Nashville's best give the front porch treatment to guitar legend and yard sale staple Peter Frampton on Pickin' on Peter Frampton: The Bluegrass Tribute. The result is interesting yet tedious, as this series started out as a novelty and has blossomed into a full-blown genre. While it's fun to hear these hillbilly versions of classic rock anthems like "Show Me the Way," "Do You Feel Like We Do," and "Baby I Love You're Way," they remain a one-time-listening experience that has outgrown its 15 minutes of fame. ~ James Christopher Monger
Instrumental Bluegrass Tribute
Audio Mixer: Thomas Johnson.
Recording information: Sidekick Sound Studios, Nashville, TN.
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| | Beaver Nelson Legends Of The Super Heroes CD (2002)
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The first thing that becomes glaringly apparent while listening to Beaver Nelson's Legends of the Super Heroes is that he's suddenly become as much a pure pop tunesmith in the vein of Freedy Johnston as he is a hard-scrabble roots man. It's most apparent throughout "Anything Easy Left," but you can also sense it, for example, in the way that "Digging a Well" moves from standard, classic country intonations to an elegantly pop melody line in the chorus. Then there's the swooning, piano-twinkly "Chameleon Brain," or the way Nelson lashes his unearthly melodic smarts atop the country shuffle of "Government Sanctioned Hayride." With each album (this is his fourth) Beaver Nelson seems to cast his uncanny talent for great tunes and literate lyrics in a different light. With Legends of the Super Heroes, Nelson confirms the fact that he just may be one of the smartest, least predictable songwriters working the formidable expanses of Austin, TX, a town that has seen its share of that rare species. ~ Erik Hage
This is the fourth and newest release by Texas singer/songwriter and Americana favorite Beaver Nelson, who is back on the ...
| | Women Of Country CD (2006)
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Track Listing of songs: Queen of Hearts; Rose Garden; It Wasn't God Who Made ...
| | Soft Mountain CD (2007) (Import) United Kingdom
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As the both the name and title of this release indicate, Soft Mountain were intimately connected with Soft Machine, albeit long after the latter group had dissolved in the '70s. In August 2003, ex-Soft Machiners Elton Dean and Hugh Hopper teamed up with two Japanese musicians, keyboardist Hoppy Kamiyama and drummer Tatsuya Yoshida, to record the hour of improvised fusion that comprises this album. And it certainly is improvisation; there's just one "song" here, "Soft Mountain Suite," divided into two parts of roughly half-an-hour length each. Though improvised in the studio, the music itself won't be too surprising to longtime Soft Machine followers, being energetic, instrumental jazz-rock fusion that's more jazz than rock, blending a frenetic rhythm section with free jazz sax and electric keyboard textures. Things do get especially wild halfway through the second part of the suite, with some careening electronic effects (presumably created by the keyboardist) and wild blowing by Dean, who died just a couple years or so after this session. It's more an extension of what Soft Machine were known for than a radical departure, though as Hopper notes in his brief liner note, he and Dean welcomed the chance to be spontaneous as the group they were touring Japan with at the time (Soft Works) played a set that didn't vary much from gig to gig. ~ Richie Unterberger
Legendary Soft Machine veterans Elton Dean and Hugh Hopper joined forces in 2003 with wildly creative keyboardist/composer Hoppy Kamiyama and master drummer, Yoshida Tatsuya to create Soft Mountain. Their debut recording is now released here for the first time. Tatsuya Yoshida was without doubt one of the most important drummers on the Japanese scene in the final decades of the 20th century, having spearheaded at least half a dozen of that country's most important groups, including Acid Mothers Temple & ...
| | Eddie Vedder Into The Wild Ost CD (2007)
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| | Welchman With Respect Across The World CD (2009) (Import)
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