Guitar: Tony Rice
March, 2007

One could call Tony Rice the Jimi Hendrix of bluegrass.

Like the rock iconoclast, Rice is also a guitar maverick who's broken barriers in a genre that keeps a firm grip on tradition.  With stylistic innovation - he single handedly introduced improvisational jazz guitar into bluegrass - Rice's three decade career has been as varied as his playing.

Rice entered the bluegrass world in the late '60s with the Bluegrass Alliance ensemble before teaming with J.D. Crowe and the New South.  But it was his lengthy stint with mandolinist David Grisman that impacted his style-yielding a string of albums that fused bluegrass with stylings akin to John Coltrane or Miles Davis.  Click here for more of the article.

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