This article presents the discography of influential guitar player and vocalist Tony Rice.
Solo albums Guitar (1973) California Autumn (1975) Tony Rice (1977) Church Street Blues (1983) Cold on the Shoulder (1984) Me & My Guitar (1986) Native American (1988) Tony Rice Plays and Sings Bluegrass (1993) Crossings (1994) Tony Rice Sings Gordon Lightfoot (1996) 58957:The Bluegrass Guitar Collection (2003) Night Flyer: The Singer Songwriter Collection (2008)
As Tony Rice Unit Acoustics (1978) Manzanita (1979) Mar West (1980) Still Inside (1981) Backwaters (1982) Devlin (1987) Unit of Measure (2000) Source:
With David Grisman Quintet The David Grisman Quintet (1977) Hot Dawg (1979) Mondo Mando (1981) DGQ-20 (1996) Source: All Music Guide to Country 2003, pp. 300–301.
With Bluegrass Album Band The Bluegrass Album (1981) Bluegrass Album, Vol. 2 (1982) Bluegrass Album, Vol. 3 - California Connection (1983) Bluegrass Album, Vol. 4 (1984) Bluegrass Album, Vol. 5 - Sweet Sunny South (1989) Bluegrass Album, Vol. 6 - Bluegrass Instrumentals (1996)
With Norman Blake Blake & Rice (1987) Norman Blake and Tony Rice 2 (1990) Source:
As Rice Brothers The Rice Brothers (1989) The Rice Brothers 2 (1994) Source:
With Peter Rowan You Were There For Me (2004) Quartet (2007)
As Rice, Rice, Hillman & Pedersen Out Of The Woodwork (1997) Rice, Rice, Hillman & Pedersen (1999) Runnin' Wild (2001) Source:
With J.D. Crowe & the New South Bluegrass Evolution (1973) J.D. Crowe & The New South (1975)
Collaboration with other artists Skaggs & Rice (1980) with Ricky Skaggs Clawgrass Mark Johnson with the Rice Brothers and Friends (1994) with Mark Johnson Tone Poems (1994) with David Grisman River Suite for Two Guitars (1995) with John Carlini The Pizza Tapes (2000) with David Grisman & Jerry Garcia Hartford Rice and Clements (2011) with John Hartford & Vassar Clements
As session musician The David Grisman Rounder Record (1976) for David Grisman Something Auld, Something Newgrass, Something Borrowed, Something Bluegrass (1976) for Bill Keith Catfish for Supper (1979) for Jon Sholle Eric Thompson's Bluegrass Guitar (1979) for Eric Thompson Roses in the Snow (1980) for Emmylou Harris Fiddlistics (1981) for Darol Anger Released (1984) for Todd Phillips (musician) Double Time (1984) for Béla Fleck Hometown Girl (1987) for Mary Chapin Carpenter Drive (1988) for Béla Fleck Pete Kennedy Highway 10 (1990): Tony Rice played guitar on the song "Highway 10" When It Rains (1991) for Lou Reid Pete Kennedy Shearwater: The Art Of The Unplugged Guitar (1993): Tony Rice is credited as a featured artist Cold Virginia Night (1994) for Ronnie Bowman Tales from the Acoustic Planet (1995) for Béla Fleck Leading Roll (1997) for Sammy Shelor The Bluegrass Sessions: Tales from the Acoustic Planet, Vol. 2 (1999) for Béla Fleck Fair Weather (2000) for Alison Brown In the Blue Room (2000) for Alan Bibey Don't Fret It (2002) for Rickie Simpkins Starting Over (2002) for Ronnie Bowman Carry Me Across the Mountain (2003) for Dan Tyminski The Bluegrass Fiddle Album (2003) for Aubrey Haynie Not Too Far From The Tree (2006) for Bryan Sutton Gaining Wisdom (2007) for Donna Hughes Secrets (2008) for Sierra Hull Almost Live (2009) for Bryan Sutton
Chronological discography
Pre-1970 1968 Session: Bobby Atkins, Frank Poindexter, and Tony Rice (1968 - Album apparently not released until 1981)) OLD HOMESTEAD 126
1970 - 1980 Guitar (1973) Bluegrass Evolution (1973) J.D. Crowe & The New South (1975) California Autumn (1975) Tony Rice (1977) The David Grisman Quintet (1977) Hot Dawg (1979) Acoustics (1979) Manzanita (1979) Mar West (1980) Skaggs & Rice (1980)
1981 - 1990 Still Inside (1981) Mondo Mando (1981) The Bluegrass Album (1981) Backwaters (1982) Bluegrass Album, Vol. 2 (1982) Bluegrass Album, Vol. 3 - California Connection (1983) Church Street Blues (1983) Bluegrass Album, Vol. 4 (1984) Cold on the Shoulder (1984) Me & My Guitar (1986) Blake & Rice (1987) Native American (1988) Bluegrass Album, Vol. 5 - Sweet Sunny South (1989) The Rice Brothers (1989) Norman Blake and Tony Rice 2 (1990) Devlin (1990)
1991 - 2000
Tony Rice Plays and Sings Bluegrass (1993) The Rice Brothers 2 (1994) Crossings (1994) Tone Poems (1994) River Suite for Two Guitars (1995) Bluegrass Album, Vol. 6 - Bluegrass Instrumentals (1996) DGQ-20 (1996) Tony Rice Sings Gordon Lightfoot (1996) Out Of The Woodwork (1997) Rice, Rice, Hillman & Pedersen (1999) Unit of Measure (2000) The Pizza Tapes (2000)
2001 - 2011 Runnin' Wild (2001) 58957:The Bluegrass Guitar Collection (2003) You Were There For Me (2004) Quartet (2007) Night Flyer: The Singer Songwriter Collection (2008) Tony Rice - The Bill Monroe Collection (Rounder Records compilation) (2011)
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