Biography
David Anthony Rice (June 8, 1951 – December 25, 2020) was an American bluegrass guitarist and singer. He was an influential acoustic guitar player in bluegrass, progressive bluegrass, newgrass and acoustic jazz. He was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 2013. Rice's music spans the range of acoustic music from traditional bluegrass to jazz influenced, New Acoustic music to songwriter-oriented folk. Over the course of his career, he played alongside J. D. Crowe and the New South, David Grisman (during the formation of Dawg Music) and Jerry Garcia, led his own band, the Tony Rice Unit, collaborated with Norman Blake, recorded with his brothers Wyatt, Ron, and Larry, and co-founded the Bluegrass Album Band. Over the course of his career, he recorded with drums, piano and soprano sax as well as with traditional bluegrass instruments.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Roses In The Snow
1980
You Get What You Give
2010
Hot Dawg
1979
Evangeline
1981
The New South
1975
The David Grisman Rounder Album
1976
Drive
1988
Church Street Blues
1983
Skaggs & Rice
1980
Manzanita
1979
J.D. Crowe And The New South
1977
Those Were The Days
2005
Profile II (The Best Of Emmylou Harris)
1984
Mondo Mando
1981
Kate & Anna McGarrigle
1975
Hartford, Rice & Clements
2011
Credited work
779 releases · 141 albums · active 1972–2026
- Performance · 2,334
- Other credits · 115
- Production · 100
- Engineering · 31
Studios: 1750 Arch Studios · Enactron Truck · Bias Studios · Magnolia Sound Studios
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- The Tony Rice Unit
- Bluegrass Album Band
- David Grisman
- Emmylou Harris
- Larry Rice
- Tony Trischka
- Rice, Rice, Hillman & Pedersen