10 Great Live Bluegrass music performances -- No. 10, The Tony Rice All Stars
Tony Rice was a flat-picking phenome, starting out with truly great J. D. Crowe and The New South.
J. D. Crowe is considered by many to be the best traditional banjo player in the style of Earl Scruggs, but the band he put together really went places--besides Rice, Ricky Skaggs sang and played mandolin, along with Jerry Douglas on the Dobro, who went on to play with Bela Fleck and Alison Krause & Union Station.
Here's Tony Rice with a group of other bluegrass luminaries: besides the aforemention Jerry Douglas, we find on stage Mark O'Conner on fiddle, Sam Bush (of Newgrass Revival) on mandolin, and Mark Schatz (Nickle Creek) on bass.
Two quick trivia points--these guys are so pure, they don't even plug in their instruments but play straight into the mic. Also, Tony Rice found, bought, and re-habbed Clarence White's old Martin D-28, which he plays here.
"Nine Pound Hammer," a simple song, but listen to how they take it up, up, and away . . .
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