Tony Rice: The Video Collection

Featuring: Ricky Skaggs, Sam Bush, Mark O’Connor, Jerry Douglas, Bela Fleck, Wyatt Rice, Jimmy Gaudreau, Rickie & Ronnie Simpkins

“In bluegrass, one of those innovators who has constantly redefined the music is Tony Rice. His singing and inimitable guitar technique has changed the way people think about and play bluegrass.” -Dirty Linen

“Tony Rice’s voice sounds terrific, either alone or when in harmony… His guitar playing is relaxed yet invigorating in its rhythmic ingenuity and mixture of dazzling runs and rich melodicism.” -Bluegrass Unlimited

Tony Rice has practiced his flatpicking art to great acclaim in both traditional bluegrass and innovative acoustic circles. He is perhaps the greatest innovator of acoustic flatpicked guitar since Clarence White. The bluegrass sound is practically mother’s milk to Tony. His father was a “serious amateur on mandolin and guitar” and Tony cannot even recall a time when he didn’t know how to play. The first records he remembers hearing were by Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs and the Louvin Brothers. More influential however, were his contacts with two players he calls his “musical mentors” — Doc Watson and the late Clarence White.

This video presents Tony in three different settings recorded at the 1992 Merle Watson Festival playing a wide variety of music all stamped with his personal approach and sound. Tony recently remarked in a Country Guitar interview, “Others have said about me from time to time that I have a unique tone and balance on the instrument. I just kind of play it the way I hear it.” And play it he does on this exciting one hour video collection.

Titles include: Tony Rice All Star Jam: Red Haired Boy, Blue Railroad Train, I Wonder Where You Are Tonight, White House Blues; Tony Rice & Friends: The Old Home Place, Bluegrass Breakdown; Tony Rice Unit: Dusty Miller, He Rode All The Way To Texas, Salt Creek, Another Lonesome Day, Nine Pound Hammer, Darcy Farrow, Crazy Creek, Little Sadie and Shadows.