Song:Cold On The Shoulder
Album:Tony Rice Sings Gordon Lighfoot
Guitarist Tony Rice is best known as a bluegrass musician. He's very versatile. He's been in all kinds of bands, does sessions and records his own music. He was born June 8, 1951 in Danville, VA and grew up in Los Angeles. His dad played in West Coast bluegrass groups. In 1970, Rice became a big part of the Newgrass movement when he moved to Louisville and joined Bluegrass Alliance and he joined the pioneering contemporary bluegrass group J.D. Crowe's New South with Ricky Skaggs and Jerry Douglas. Then in 1975 he got together with mandolinist David Grisman to form The David Grisman Quintet. Since 1979 he has recorded his own solo projects mostly on Rounder Records and has been in various bluegrass supergroups and still plays sessions. Cold On The Shoulder is a Gordon Lightfoot song from his 1984 album Cold On The Shoulder. Musicians include Sam Bush on mandolin, Vassar Clements on fiddle, J.D. Crowe on banjo and Jerry Douglas on dobro. Rice has been a huge Lightfoot fan and Rounder released this Tony Rice Sings Gordon Lightfoot comp in 1996. Bluegrass fans should check it out. Tony Rice suffered damage to his vocal chords due to dysphonia. But his guitar picking is still great and in recent years he has recorded and toured with Peter Rowan. Their latest CD Quartet was released in 2007. He also toured with Alison Krauss in 2007. Tim Stafford's biography of Tony Rice is scheduled to be published in 2010. Here's Tony Rice with Mark O'Connor, John Hartford, Vassar Clements and Jerry Douglas performing Cold On The Shoulder on the 80s TNN TV series American Music Shoppe.
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