When it comes to bluegrass guitar players there is a rare agreed-upon best among music lovers and musicians–and that person is Tony Rice. The late grate Rice was undoubtedly the most influential, ...

In the era of modern music, describing anybody as the "greatest of all time" is usually met with resistance-if for no other reason than the ever-evolving tastes of both musicians and fans-but if the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tony Rice, one of the leading lights of bluegrass music since the 1970s, and a 2013 inductee into the International Bluegrass ...

Tony Rice could seemingly do it all: sing, compose, play spot-on rhythm. But it was his guitar solos that just astounded audiences and fellow musicians alike. He was idolized by bluegrass and acoustic ...

Tony Rice was my first guitar hero. He inspired me and so many others to strive for excellence on the acoustic flat-top, explore new genres and never be afraid to take risks. To discover Rice's ...

When guitarist Tony Rice died on Christmas Day in his North Carolina home, bluegrass music bade farewell to a second-generation star who expressed his music in modern terms and embraced bluegrass’s ...