Tony's Choice
HOMESPUN
Taught By Tony Rice.
Level 5
One CD, includes music and tablature book

On this newly edited and digitally-enhanced CD, Tony Rice personally teaches intros, licks and complete solos to some of his favorite songs. Taken mainly from his hit albums "Cold On The Shoulder" and "Church Street Blues," these examples will give you a real taste of Tony's amazing guitar style as he interprets songs by Gordon Lightfoot, Bob Dylan, Norman Blake, Ian Tyson and other top songwriters. He provides invaluable tips that are sure to help you build your repertoire of licks, improve your flatpicking technique and expand your overall musicianship.

Tony teaches his inventive kickoffs to "The Likes of Me," "Fare Thee Well," "Ten Degrees and Getting Colder" and "The Soul of Man." He then breaks down, in detail, his complete solos to "Annie, Orphan Annie," "Wayfaring Stranger," "Blue Ridge Mountain Home" and the challenging finger-twister "Fishscale." His guitar work on these songs combine his distinctive bluegrass picking with a pop-folk approach that make up on of the many high points in his long and successful musical career.

About Tony Rice
Tony Rice is perhaps the greatest innovator in acoustic flat-picked guitar playing today. His output spans the range from straight-ahead bluegrass to jazz-inflected "new acoustic" music. Over the course of his career he has played and recorded with virtually every luminary in bluegrass, including J.D. Crowe and the New South, The David Grisman Quintet, Norman Blake, Ricky Skaggs, his brothers Larry and Wyatt Rice and the supergroup known as the Bluegrass Album Band. His many solo albums and those with his cutting-edge group, The Tony Rice Unit, have created new standards for the acoustic guitar. Today, Tony Rice remains one of bluegrass' top instrumentalists, bringing originality, vitality and mind-boggling virtuosity to everything he plays.