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Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine April 2006.  Volume 40, Number 10 For several years, Tim Stafford (songwriter, guitarist, and vocalist for Blue Highway) has been working on the authorized biography of flatpicking guitar pioneer Tony Rice, collecting interviews with dozens of Tony’s peers and friends in the bluegrass community. In 2003, journalist Caroline Wright asked…

October 2002, Volume 37, Number 4 A lot of people were heartbroken when Tony Rice stopped singing. But he was not one of them. “I don’t worry about it as much as people think,” he says offhandedly. “The guitar was always the main thing for me. I spent four years with David Grisman where I…

Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine August 1989. Volume 24, Number 2 Perhaps no other single artist in this decade has had the impact on the broad genre of contemporary acoustic music than Tony Rice—the consummate folk musician whose stylistic command has gained him diverse groups of admirers as well as imitators all over the landscape….

Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine October 1977. Volume 12, Number 4 It was a hot September evening in Louisville, Kentucky seven years ago when I first met a skinny teenage guitar player named Tony Rice. He had just landed his first job with a full-time bluegrass band and was obviously totally immersed in music. Tony’s…

The Original Bluegrass Girl Pulling Her Own Weight With the Blue Grass Boys Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine June 2000, Volume 34, Number 12 One of the standard beliefs about bluegrass music is that, in its formative years,bluegrass was “almost completely a male domain,” as Bufwack and Oermann describe itin Finding Her Voice: The Saga…

Photos By Edwin G. Huffman Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine April 1968 (Volume 2, Number 10) My first knowledge of the BU poll, as for most other subscribers, came whenI arrived at the last page of my December issue, I’ve always wanted to know more about the kind of people interested enough in bluegrass to…