Bonfire Music Group has a new single today from veteran bluegrass singer, songwriter, and guitarist, Richard Bennet. Currently performing with the band, Flashback, Bennett also has stints with J.D. Crowe & The New South and Bobby Osborne and the Rocky
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Spaceview/Spacegrass t-shirt honors Tony Rice
Colorado banjoist Jake Schepps has designed a memorial t-shirt honoring the late Tony Rice, based on his notorious love of vintage watches. Deep Rice-ophiles have long known of his history collecting, repairing, and wearing classic Accutron timepieces, a habit that has
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Me and His Guitars with Bryan Sutton and Friends remembers Tony Rice
Since the death of Tony Rice on Christmas day, the bluegrass and acoustic music world has reacted with a combination of shock and reverence. Rice had been a superstar in the music for so long, that even after his retirement
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Richard Hoover of Santa Cruz Guitar on his friend, Tony Rice
This reflection on the late Tony Rice is a contribution from Richard Hoover of the Santa Cruz Guitar Company. He and Tony became close over the development of the Tony Rice Model crafted by Santa Cruz. Prodigious at four, incredible at
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Ron Stewart remembers Tony Rice
This remembrance of Tony Rice is a contribution from Ron Stewart, surely one of the finest bluegrass musicians working today, and perhaps one of the best ever. He currently works with Seldom Scene playing banjo and fiddle, and performs, produces,
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Tony Rice Tribute on Into The Blue this weekend
This upcoming weekend's edition of Into The Blue, the most widely syndicated bluegrass radio program in the United States, will feature a special tribute to the late Tony Rice. Hosted by our own Terry Herd, the first hour of the
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On the Gravity of Tony Rice
This reflection on the importance of Tony Rice in contemporary bluegrass is a contribution from Reed Jones, bass player and songwriter with Audie Blaylock and Redline. We thank him for these insights. The evolving story of bluegrass music is punctuated by
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Pete Wernick takes Relix to task over Tony Rice obit
UPDATE 12/30 – Pete received a note yesterday from Dean Budnick, editor at Relix, who was aghast at the oversight, and determined to make its right. They have since done so, completely revamping the article. Raffaela Kenny-Cincotta, who wrote the original
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Me And My Guitar – Tony Rice Unit at Grass Valley in 1988
Many thanks to Danny "Hootenany" Clark with The Bluegrass Bus Museum for sharing this vintage video from California's Grass Valley Festival back in 1988. It features The Tony Rice Unit playing an extended version of Me and My Guitar, the title
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Tony Rice – a giant among us; his peers react
The night Tony Rice first made grown men cry was in September 2013. In a speech marking his induction into the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame, Rice labored through his early remarks in the raspy, broken voice we had become