# Tony Rice discography

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)

## With David Grisman Quintet

* The David Grisman Quintet (1977)
* Hot Dawg (1979)
* Mondo Mando (1981)
* DGQ-20 (1996)

## 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)

## As Rice Brothers

* The Rice Brothers (1989)
* The Rice Brothers 2 (1994)

## 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)

## 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
* When It Rains (1991) for Lou Reid
* 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)