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Night Flyer: The Singer Songwriter Collection features 17 non-instrumental cuts from the pioneering progressive bluegrass/new acoustic guitarist, and as a companion piece to Rounder's 58957: The Bluegrass Guitar Collection, it's a gem. Unlike fellow six-string genius Leo Kottke, Tony Rice actually possesses a decent voice, and though it never reaches the rich, emotional resonance of Gordon Lightfoot (a huge influence), it transcends its natural mediocrity with honest and clarity. Culled from half a dozen or so of his mid-'80s to late-'90s records, the songs are primarily covers of the folk and country variety from artists like Joni Mitchell ("Urge for Going"), Phil Ochs ("Changes"), Mickey Newbury ("Why You Been Gone So Long"), and James Taylor ("Me and My Guitar"), but Rice kicks off the collection with a brand-new, bitter, self-penned bluegrass cooker called "Never Meant to Be." There's a nice piano and vocal version of Tom Waits' "Pony," the second of three previously unreleased cuts, which also include brother Larry Rice's "About Love," a track proving that saxophone solos and good old country waltzes should sleep in separate beds. Throughout it all, Rice shares the load with a who's who of acoustic legends like Jerry Douglas, Béla Fleck, Sam Bush, Vassar Clements, and more, but it's his effortless musicianship and oddly charismatic delivery that make these "sung" songs difficult to write off, even when comparing them to his phenomenal instrumental work.
© James Christopher Monger /TiVo
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Tony Rice, MainArtist
℗ 2008 Rounder Records Manufactured and distributed by Concord Music Group
Joni Mitchell, Composer - Tony Rice, Producer, Guitar, Vocals, Recording Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Mark Schatz, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Bill Wolf, Producer, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Jon Carroll, Piano, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1988 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
JAMES TAYLOR, ComposerLyricist - Sam Bush, Mandolin, AssociatedPerformer - Jerry Douglas, Dobro, AssociatedPerformer - Tony Rice, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Mark Schatz, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Vassar Clements, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - George Horn, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Wyatt Rice, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Bill Wolf, Producer, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Anthony Rice, Producer, Recording Producer
℗ 1986 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
James Baker, ComposerLyricist - Jerry Douglas, Dobro, AssociatedPerformer - Tony Rice, Producer, Guitar, Vocals, Recording Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Mark Schatz, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Vassar Clements, Fiddle, AssociatedPerformer - Wyatt Rice, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Bill Wolf, Producer, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Jimmy Gaudreau, Mandolin, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1988 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Mary Chapin Carpenter, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Jerry Douglas, Dobro, AssociatedPerformer - Tony Rice, Producer, Guitar, Vocals, Recording Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Mark Schatz, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Wyatt Rice, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Bill Wolf, Producer, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Jimmy Gaudreau, Mandolin, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1988 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Ian Tyson, ComposerLyricist - Tony Rice, Guitar, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Mark Schatz, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Vassar Clements, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - George Horn, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bill Wolf, Producer, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, Piano, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Cole Burgess, Soprano Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Anthony Rice, Producer, Recording Producer - Jimmy Gaudreau, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1986 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Jerry Douglas, Dobro, AssociatedPerformer - Tony Rice, Producer, Guitar, Vocals, Recording Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Mark Schatz, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - John Mayall, ComposerLyricist - Wyatt Rice, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Bill Wolf, Producer, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Jimmy Gaudreau, Mandolin, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1988 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Tony Rice, MainArtist
℗ 2008 Rounder Records Manufactured and distributed by Concord Music Group
Tony Rice, MainArtist
℗ 2008 Rounder Records Manufactured and distributed by Concord Music Group
Jerry Douglas, Dobro, AssociatedPerformer - Tony Rice, Producer, Guitar, Vocals, Recording Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Phil Ochs, ComposerLyricist - Mark Schatz, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Wyatt Rice, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Bill Wolf, Producer, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Jimmy Gaudreau, Mandolin, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1988 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Bob Dylan, ComposerLyricist - Tony Rice, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Larry Atamanuik, Drums, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Mark Schatz, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - George Horn, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bill Wolf, Producer, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, Piano, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Cole Burgess, Soprano Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Anthony Rice, Producer, Recording Producer
℗ 1986 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Jerry Douglas, Vocals, Dobro, AssociatedPerformer - Tony Rice, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Blake, ComposerLyricist - Mark Schatz, Vocals, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - George Horn, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Wyatt Rice, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Bill Wolf, Producer, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Anthony Rice, Producer, Recording Producer - Jimmy Gaudreau, Mandolin, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1986 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Jerry Douglas, Dobro, AssociatedPerformer - Tony Rice, Guitar, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Mark Schatz, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Kathy Chiavola, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Bob Franke, ComposerLyricist - George Horn, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bill Wolf, Producer, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, Piano, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Cole Burgess, Soprano Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Anthony Rice, Producer, Recording Producer
℗ 1986 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Jerry Douglas, Dobro, AssociatedPerformer - Tony Rice, Producer, Guitar, Vocals, Recording Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Mark Schatz, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Vassar Clements, Fiddle, AssociatedPerformer - Mickey Newbury, Composer - Wyatt Rice, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Bill Wolf, Producer, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Jimmy Gaudreau, Mandolin, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1988 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Todd Phillips, FeaturedArtist - Traditional, ComposerLyricist - Sam Bush, FeaturedArtist - Jerry Douglas, FeaturedArtist - Tony Rice, Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Vassar Clements, FeaturedArtist
℗ 2008 Rounder Records Manufactured and distributed by Concord Music Group
Jerry Reed, ComposerLyricist - Todd Phillips, FeaturedArtist - BELA FLECK, FeaturedArtist - Sam Bush, FeaturedArtist - Jerry Douglas, FeaturedArtist - Tony Rice, Producer, MainArtist - Vassar Clements, FeaturedArtist
℗ 2008 Rounder Records Manufactured and distributed by Concord Music Group
Tony Rice, MainArtist
℗ 2008 Rounder Records Manufactured and distributed by Concord Music Group
Album review
Night Flyer: The Singer Songwriter Collection features 17 non-instrumental cuts from the pioneering progressive bluegrass/new acoustic guitarist, and as a companion piece to Rounder's 58957: The Bluegrass Guitar Collection, it's a gem. Unlike fellow six-string genius Leo Kottke, Tony Rice actually possesses a decent voice, and though it never reaches the rich, emotional resonance of Gordon Lightfoot (a huge influence), it transcends its natural mediocrity with honest and clarity. Culled from half a dozen or so of his mid-'80s to late-'90s records, the songs are primarily covers of the folk and country variety from artists like Joni Mitchell ("Urge for Going"), Phil Ochs ("Changes"), Mickey Newbury ("Why You Been Gone So Long"), and James Taylor ("Me and My Guitar"), but Rice kicks off the collection with a brand-new, bitter, self-penned bluegrass cooker called "Never Meant to Be." There's a nice piano and vocal version of Tom Waits' "Pony," the second of three previously unreleased cuts, which also include brother Larry Rice's "About Love," a track proving that saxophone solos and good old country waltzes should sleep in separate beds. Throughout it all, Rice shares the load with a who's who of acoustic legends like Jerry Douglas, Béla Fleck, Sam Bush, Vassar Clements, and more, but it's his effortless musicianship and oddly charismatic delivery that make these "sung" songs difficult to write off, even when comparing them to his phenomenal instrumental work.
© James Christopher Monger /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 17 track(s)
- Total length: 01:08:22
- Main artists: Tony Rice
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Rounder Records
- Genre: Folk/Americana
© 2008 Rounder Records Manufactured and distributed by Concord Music Group This Compilation ℗ 2008 Rounder Records Manufactured and distributed by Concord Music Group
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