Of some interest indeed.

I got to see him once. Wonderful performance. Too bad he's gone.

I think as a guitarist you need to push it further and explore different styles of music, a perfect example is Billy Strings, who experiments with music and he is highly regarded

Paul Brady for President⭐

Truely a stud rip

My god

It kills me they make it look so effen easy, another National Treasure, RIP bro.

Tony Im so glad to have witnessed at Jorma’s Fur Peace Ranch. Then Tom Rush in 2023…”Im glad Im glad Im glad.” Cream

❤❤❤

He is guitar

KZbin would have broadened his exposure and made him more 💵

Tastes great, beautiful fills

Anybody know the tuning on his guitar?

If this doesn't pull the heart strings, then you don't have any. This guy is right up there amongst the all time greatest guitarists. With a flat pick, for my money, he's the best ever, simply because it's impossible to flat pick more smoothly and with such articulation than Tony did.

I love how he puts his glasses on like he's about to read the newspaper but accept he's about to play a guitar like a Master not like a Master but as a Master a True Master of the guitar I think it's Really Close

He plays the guitar like i pet my cat. So effortlessly and pleasing.

Oh yes thanks

Wow, so beautiful!

Gate of Ivory Gate of Horn ("Glad I was Chicago Born.") A Lovepoem for Deborah by Bob Boldt .For Deborah whom I knew long before we met. To be read over music background. 1954. Dearborn and State. Gate of Horn. Saturday night. My best friend, Tom Clemens to my right and to the left of me, standing at the bar, Roger McGuinn. I have no idea who he is, just another pair of ears listening... "That old Bilbao moon, I won't forget it soon...Just like a big balloon." Eyes on Will Holt's pin spot lit face. Kurt Weil's music. Most only know of The Gate as an interesting side-bar to "Inside Lewellen Davis." I remember beersmelled black floors, red tables, cigarette smoke pierced by aforementioned pin-spot. I didn't know you then. At my revels you were in grade school barely as naive as me. I was 16 when you were 12, growing up through Kinsey and Kesey, Giacometti and Ginsberg. Quaint and lovely in retrospect, never having heard of Homer's Gates of Horn and Ivory. Sneaking out of the house to New York to hear Ginsberg read while me, catching Muddy at the Club DeLisa. Even in 68 we were leaders. Now we are elders. Eyes are on the smoky pinspot. Ears listening to our song even if we don't always remember the text. "That old Bilbao moon would rise above the dune While Tony's Beach Saloon rocked with an old-time tune." Lyrics quoted from the "Bilbao-Song"; HAPPY END; Kurt Weill

Two greats!

Them boys sure can pick

I don't like this particular piece because there's no melody I can remember after having heard it. There's simply nothing catchy about it. Talent without melody equals zero to me.

I miss him. What a delicate but rich tone!

you know a person is good when they play the nastiest lick youve ever heard and they say "i didnt think about it, it just happens"

economy of motion at its finest

Is it just me or is he working "girl with the flaxxen hair" in there? the changes are for CERTAIN

Awesomness aside are these 'runs' they talk of simply exerts from the various musical scales that can be played on guitar? Like the pentatonic, major etc? Or are they fully custom licks he creates? Such an inspiration is Doc! Was introduced to his music through Townes and the old quarter album.

Love Pete! His performances with JD were awesome.

So great

That was musical masturbation.

The way he linked those chords was so fucking cool

he a story teller

It just comes out 😂 trying to explain what it is to be a guitar hero just naturally , with more soul than James brown 😂

Brilliant and Talented Musician!!!

Tony was, and forever will be, my god of flat-picking… There are absolutely no wasted movements…not one. As for whatever list you might have of talented guitarists, Tony is at the tippy-top, and there is not a close second…we are talking miles away. RIP to the best there ever was, and the best there ever will be.

Next day i meant

Tony wife was best friends with my granmy she introduced grampy to tony rice next grampy looked just like him

A remarkable human being. A awesome individual. I went and seen him so much we became good friends. He will always hold a special place in my heart

No one ine talks about his singing. He had a great voice!!❤ Miss you TR. RIP.

A huge hand is necessary for this mode, right? I guess I can never make it.

does anyone know what the tuning is, please?

the GOAT & it's not even close

Another West Village Artist.

I've been playing guitar for 30 years and just discovered this guy. Better late then never, I'd like to think. I can't believe how clear and accurate his fretting is on an accustic guitar. So fast and so clear. That guitar must have great action that's set up custom just for him , of course . Even so, that is very difficult with an acustic. But this guy is flawless. He constantly mixes chords and scales typical in jazz ,,but even the best jazz players hit a dead note once in a while. This guy is perfect. So glade I found this. Thanks for posting it. Very impressive

Great artist.

I was at a Blake concert years ago down in Nashville. One young man, an enthusiastic fan, called out a song title, hoping BLlake would play it. Instead, it hit a very sour chord in the man. and Blake's reponse practually reuined the concert fo rhis audience. He scowled in the direction of the young man and barked,"YOU're RUDE, that's what you are!" Those few words fell over the entire crowd like some toxic web and everyone was silent. He strummed and resumed the song. But it showed such disdain for his fans, that one in particular, that it's taye dwith me whenever I think of Norman Blake. Patience, I hope, in the future. I can understnad that it would annying of have folks call out a title but (I'm a novelist and story writer who gives an occasional reading), if someone alled out one of my titles, I'd be so grateful and happy! Just saying'. We're not all alike.

At the highest level. So sweet.

One of the very best right hand I've ever heard. Very wonderful rendition of one of Dylan's masterpieces

The absolute BEST to ever hold a guitar. There are many great pickers but there will never be another Tony Rice. Miss you much😢

In the early days of recording about three minutes maybe three and half at the most, so many pieces were edited to fit.