website associated_acts years_active notable_instruments birth_place label image_size landscape background birth_date instrument genre image article_title name occupation
date = july 2015 david skaggs grisman quintet , bluegrass album band , ricky 1970 -- 2013 1935 -rrb- santa cruz tony rice professional martin d-28 -lrb- previously owned by clarence white danville , virginia , united states rounder 250 yes solo_singer 08 june 1951 guitar americana , bluegrass , folk , jazz tonyrice-fls . jpg tony rice
 tony rice musician , songwriter
tony rice

`` this article is for the guitarist .
for the former football player see tony rice . ''
tony rice -lrb- born david anthony rice , june 8 , 1951 , danville , virginia , united states -rrb- is an american guitarist and bluegrass musician .
he is considered one of the most influential acoustic guitar players in bluegrass , progressive bluegrass , newgrass and acoustic jazz .
he was inducted into the international bluegrass music hall of fame in 2013 .
rice 's music spans the range of acoustic from traditional bluegrass to jazz-influenced new acoustic music to songwriter-oriented folk .
over the course of his career , he has played alongside j. d. crowe and the new south , david grisman -lrb- during the formation of `` dawg music '' -rrb- and jerry garcia , led his own tony rice unit , collaborated with norman blake , recorded with his brothers wyatt , ron , and larry , and co-founded the bluegrass album band .
he has recorded with drums , piano , soprano sax , as well as with traditional bluegrass instrumentation .
