Richard Harrington has a nice piece in this morning's Washington Post on the current Alison Krauss & Union Station tour featuring the music - and the person - of Tony Rice. "My love and admiration for Tony goes back to what
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Opry bluegrass this weekend
The Grand Ole Opry broadcasts this weekend will feature some terrific bluegrass music, worth the effort to find their signal on the radio (650 AM from Nashville), or catch the live cybercast at WSM online. Friday's show (4/20) will feature Cherryholmes
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Tony Rice in Acoustic Guitar
The June issue of Acoustic Guitar magazine has a cover feature on Tony Rice. The in-depth piece by Scott Nygaard looks at Tony's career in music of more than 30 years, and also includes a side piece on "the guitars
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Tony Rice: Shenandoah video
Just for fun here a video from YouTube of Tony Rice playing Shenandoah. This performance is taken from the DVD Bluegrass Journey. And, from what I can tell, was posted to YouTube by the producers. Hat tip: Fretboard Journal
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Tony Rice back next week
This week was set to be the start of an east coast tour by Peter Rowan and Tony Rice, in support of their Rounder CD, Quartet. Folks checking on these dates have been seeing cancellation notices, mentioning a recent injury
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Rowan/Rice tour dates coming up
When we posted in November about the upcoming January '07 release of the new CD from Peter Rowan and Tony Rice, we mentioned that they would tour in support of the project this year. They are about to embark on a
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Tony Rice feature in Fretboard Journal
Scheduled to hit the store shelves by the end of next week, the latest issue of Fretboard Journal has a cover story about Tony Rice and the famous Clarence White D-28 he plays. This is a major article, coming in at
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WDVX Knoxville auctions autographed Santa Cruz guitar
Earlier this week we told you about the fundraising auction being held by WDVX Knoxville, and of the autographed Martin DXM guitar being auctioned. That auction ends tomorrow, Sunday February 11th, but this evening sees the beginning of the auction
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AKUS tour with Tony Rice
For the months of April and May Alison Krauss and Union Station will be doing a number of dates with guitar legend, Tony Rice. When this was first announced it looked like it was limited to a very small number
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Donna Hughes – Gaining Wisdom
Bluegrass fans everywhere are indebted to the songwriters who create the songs performed by our favorite artists. One such writer is Donna Hughes. I first met Donna in NC at a birthday party. There were many of us there jamming