I am blessed to have met all these great great great musicians several times in person. Sam Bush even signed my daughters mandolin twice and had her come on stage during a workshop when she was 8 years old. These are good folk!
I know wyatt personally, I went to school with his son. and let me tell you, wyatt can melt a guitar fret board. This is a person that has not only seen him play live but many personal experiences.
@@SwampDog1957 he can sing well too, not like tony did in his prime though. Singing definitely separates them more than playing. Not knocking wyatts singing, he’s great it’s just not tony
I have recently discovered Tony Rice. He is so good. This is a great song and love, love to hear him sing one of my favorite songs - Shadows by Gordon Lightfoot. j.l.
Bluegrass Library--THANKS for this! You have to have the COOLEST collection of tapes anywhere! I love being able to hear and see Mr. Rice sing and love being able to see the "Clarence" Martin!
Great bluegrass.......just came back from a bluegrass festival in Rogersville,NB where The Diorion Bros.,Acoustic Horizon and The Boxcars played. Lots of musicians in that part of NB so maybe that's where Clarence White's people come from near the Miramichi River and the towns of Newcastle and Chatham (Miramichi , NB ) are located. Lots of LeBlancs around those parts. Thanks for the trivia. Hollcall.
I think you need to watch the video again... Look around 1:09-1:19 Wyatt took the very first solo that lead into the Mandolin solo. It wasn't the greatest solo I have ever heard but he is cross chording playing in C position while Tony is playing in a D position. The Dobro leads into Tony's solo around 2:17. Wyatt was always content playing along side His Brother and learning from arguably the best acoustic pickers of our generation!
Tony Rice looks so healthy here; his hair style is so great; the way he wears it now with the long ponytail is not attractive. I loved his voice; so sad what happened to his voice that he had to stop singing.
Yes, and Tony loves that guitar so dearly, he dove into his submerged home in Florida and retrieved it. It took about two yrs, but it was finally repaired. He then collaberated with Santa Cruz Guitar Co. and had a replica of this guitar produced. They are gorgeuous and play like a dream. My bandmate in County Switch has two of them and does them justice. We have close to fifty videos on youtube if you want to see his in action.
If taking drugs would help me learning to play like Tony :) I guess that would be the strongest argument I could find for doing it, but fortunately, that doesn't make sense :)
There isn't a musician on planet earth more credible than Tony Rice, he is the epitome of credibility. Standing on stage with him gives any player automatic credibility just being seen with him playing music would increase anybody's cred. He is considered the greatest acoustic guitarist in the world. He never sold out to try and achieve more commercial success always true to himself musically speaking most geniuses are that way. Who ever wrote this must not know the correct definition of credible. I remember seeing Leeann Rimes a couple of years ago on an award show and she had Dan Tyminski only on stage with her and though he's a great harmony singer the primary reason she had him with her is the added musical credibility he shines on her. Dan is musically very credible but Tony Rice is infinitely more credible than even Dan Tyminski and Dan would say that himself. As far as popularity goes Tony never had the exposure and large record label distribution of more mainstream artists and to be honest the masses have been so dumbed down by the garbage passed off as music on the radio that they wouldn't know high quality music if it ran over them with a bus.
There is a Home Spun tape I for get the name but Tony tells the story of how this guitar was obtained by the Whites for 25 or 35 dollars and how he got it Clarence was From my Town in Ky. I never meet him but I went to school with his daughter Machelle I know several people that I play music with that used to play with Clarence!
WYATT'S NO SLOUCH, EITHER. I LIKE THE CLARENCE/ WHITE RY COODER VERSION -- IT'S A LITTLE SLOWER, WITH MORE EMPHASIS ON THE VOCALS. BUT THEY'RE BOTH GREAT!!!!!!!!!!
@Mar10Guitar I agree completely. I'll give Clarence White his due, but think that Tony single-handedly reinvented flatpicking and bluegrass guitar. Great performance!
Cultural references from the USA, "a fifth of a Thunderbird refers to 750ml of a fortified wine made cheaply for the down market consumer. 17% ABV, stronger than regular wine, about as strong as Buckfast Tonic wine, its British equivalent......
IMO this is an ***** star bluegrass band. Tony and Wyatt are two great acoustic guitarists along the lines of Clarence White although none mastered Clarence's style completely. In this one Tony is playin a Martin but not positive its Clarence's guitar although he has it.He also plays a Santa Cruz but this is not one.Awesome bluegrass for sure.
Johnny Darrell hit with it in June 1969....I was at the DJ Convention in October,saw him perform it,bought his LP and was singing it with my band a few weeks later!
Key of E - Tony is capoed at second fret, and using D A and G open chord shapes, Wyatt is capoed at the fourth fret, and using C, F and G open chord shapes. Both make it the key of E, it's just a question of what sound you like, and what scales you prefer to do your breaks in.
you know Tony was/is a good friend of both Jerry Garcia and Dave Grisman, right? and its not really a big secret that both of them smoked a fair amount of dope-and worse. he hasnt made a big secret of the fact that he's done those sorts of things too, so by extension, he's exactly the sort of hippy girly man you're vilifying, pal.
Am I the only one who thinks the mandolin dude absolutely butchered the backup vocals? Who's this cat that thought he was good enough to sing with Tony Rice?
That’d be Sam Bush, considered by many a bluegrass legend, and him and Tony met when they were 19. But like you I have never cared for his voice, or the way he played.
Sam Bush was Tony’s choice for his allstar band. Sam got Tony his first big bluegrass gig in Bluegrass Alliance and they played together for decades. He is an iconic and fantastic mandolin player.
