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TONY RICE Church Street Blues LP VMP Red Vinyl 180g RM Ltd /500 OOP Brand New Factory Sealed This Masterpiece by Tony Rice has been given the full treatment by Vinyl Me Please and is already Out of Print ( Stock Photos )
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Church Street Blues is an album by   , released in 1983. It is a folk oriented album, featuring only  on guitar and vocals, except for four songs with his brother,  on rhythm guitar.

David Anthony Rice (June 8, 1951 – December 25, 2020) was an American  guitarist. He was an influential acoustic guitar player in bluegrass, progressive bluegrass, new grass and acoustic jazz. He was inducted into the  in 2013.

He joined David Grisman and Jerry Garcia in 1993 to record . In 1994 Rice and Grisman recorded , an original collection of material, where they used historical vintage mandolins and guitars, different for each track

Rice's music spans the range of acoustic from traditional bluegrass to jazz-influenced New Acoustic music to songwriter-oriented . Over the course of his career, he played alongside  and ,  (during the formation of "Dawg Music") and , led his own Tony Rice Unit, collaborated with , recorded with his brothers , Ron, and , and co-founded the . He recorded with drums, piano, soprano sax, as well as with traditional bluegrass instrumentation.

In 1970, Rice had moved to , where he played with the Bluegrass Alliance, and shortly thereafter,  New South.  was known as one of the best and most progressive bluegrass groups—eventually adding drums and electric instruments (to Rice's displeasure). When  joined them in 1974, however, the band recorded , an acoustic album that became Rounder Records' top-seller up to that time. At this point, the group consisted of Rice on guitar and lead vocals, Crowe on banjo and vocals,  on , Skaggs on fiddle, mandolin, and tenor vocals, and Bobby Slone on bass and fiddle.

Around this time, Rice met mandolinist , who played with  during the 1960s and was now working on original material that blended jazz, bluegrass, and classical styles. Rice left the New South and moved to California to join Grisman's all-instrumental group. As part of the , in order to broaden his expertise and make himself more marketable, Rice began studying chord theory, learned to read charts, and began to expand his playing beyond bluegrass. Renowned guitarist  came in to teach Rice music theory, and Carlini helped him learn the intricacies of jazz playing and musical improvisation, in general. The David Grisman Quintet's 1977 debut recording is considered a landmark of acoustic string band music.

In 1980, Rice, Crowe, ,  and  formed the  and recorded from 1980 to 1996.

With the Tony Rice Unit, he pursued experimental "spacegrass" music on Mar West, Still Inside, and Backwaters. Members of the Unit included  (mandolin),  (guitar), Ronnie Simpkins (bass), John Reischman (mandolin), and  (fiddle). In the late 1980s  played regularly with the group in concert for about a year but never appeared on the albums.  also guested with the group during that period.