Dan Crary Remembers The Late Tony Rice 

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Dan Crary's influence taught generations of guitarists how to flatpick. In this excerpt, Dan remembers another flatpick guitar giant, Tony Rice. Dan relates Tony's influence to acoustic guitar and bluegrass much like he does Earl Scruggs' importance to bluegrass music.
David Anthony Rice (June 8, 1951 - December 25, 2020), known professionally as Tony Rice, was an American guitarist and bluegrass musician. 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 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 Tony Rice Unit, collaborated with Norman Blake, recorded with his brothers Wyatt, Ron, and Larry, and co-founded the Bluegrass Album Band. He recorded with drums, piano, soprano sax, as well as with traditional bluegrass instrumentation.