Tony Rice
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"Tony Rice" is an American guitarist and Bluegrass music/bluegrass musician. He is considered one of the most influential acoustic guitar players in bluegrass, progressive bluegrass, newgrass and acoustic jazz. He was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 2013.

Rice spans the range of acoustic music, from traditional bluegrass to jazz-influenced New Acoustic music, to songwriter-oriented folk music/folk. Over the course of his career, he has played alongside J. D. Crowe and New South (band)/the New South, David Grisman (during the formation of "Dawg Music") and Jerry Garcia, led his own Tony Rice Unit, collaborated with Norman Blake (American musician)/Norman Blake, recorded with his brothers Wyatt, Ron and Larry and co-founded the Bluegrass Album Band. He has recorded with drums, piano, soprano sax, as well as with traditional bluegrass instrumentation.

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I'd give my left nut to play that music.

[An investigation] is little short of laughable given the sort of return on capital we are both getting. Neither of us is covering our costs of capital.

I knew it was special enough to leave everything I had in Kentucky. Not only would I do it again, I would do it precisely the same way. I already had this new music in my blood. The whole process of doing that was innate leap into some other music form. I didn't have a choice.

That audience was absolutely crazy. And I knew they would be. There had never been anything like that. It was absolutely crazy. They couldn't get enough of that.