Tony Rice

The Heady Wax Fiends Record Club and Real Gone Music have announced the latest in their audiophile vinyl resissues, the bluegrass classic Manzanita, from The Tony Rice Unit in 1979. This record hit like an earthquake when it was first released

Lorraine Jordan & Country Grass at the Tony Rice Memorial Music Fest - photo © Jeromie Stephens Photographer Jeromie Stephens also spent Memorial Day Weekend at the 2024 Tony Rice Memorial Music Fest, held at the Camp Springs Music Park in

J.D. Crowe & The New South, often best known to bluegrass lovers by its catalog number, Rounder 0044, has been chosen for by the Library of Congress to be among the 25 commercial audio recordings to go into their National

Craft Recordings has announced an April reissue of Tony Rice's Church Street Blues, the flatpick guitar maestro's only true solo project, originally released in 1983 by Sugar Hill Records. The album found Tony in fine voice, accompanying himself on guitar,

The Bicentennial Bluegrass Band, aka, The Keith Unit, Paris, France 1977 (Tony Rice, Bill Amatneek,Bill Keith, David Grisman, Darol Anger) - photo © Patrick Ciocca Noted west coast bass player and bluegrass chronicler Bill Amatneek has made one of the vignettes

If you need a last minute Christmas gift for the flatpicking guitar nerd on your list, David Grisman's Acoustic Disc and Acoustic Oasis Downloads may have just the thing. They have just released a live set by The Rice Brothers, recorded

Bill Amatneek, bassist on the first David Grisman Quintet album and a four decade bass and banjo pro on the west coast, has written a new biography of Tony Rice, called Discovering Tony Rice. It is scheduled to be released

Kody Norris Show at Camp Springs (5/27/23) - photo © Jeromie Stephens Here is a second gallery of Jeromie Stephens' photographs from this past weekend's inaugural Tony Rice Memorial Day Musicfest at the Camp Springs Bluegrass Park in Elon, NC. These

The Church Sisters with Caroline Owens at Camp Springs (5/26/23) - photo © Jeromie Stephens Jeromie Stephens braved the rain this past weekend for the Tony Rice Memorial Day Musicfest at Camp Springs in North Carolina. He shared a good many

The cool dizzily weather failed to dampen the spirits of the artists and attendees at Camp Springs Bluegrass Park near Reidsville, NC, this weekend for the first annual Tony Rice Memorial Day Musicfest. Promoters, Cody and Donna Johnson, labored arduously