Manzanita (Tony Rice album)

1979 studio album by Tony Rice Unit

Manzanita

Studio album by

Tony Rice Unit

Released| 1979
Genre| Americana, bluegrass, folk
Length| 37:35
Label| Rounder
Producer| Tony Rice
Tony Rice chronology
| Acoustics
(1977)  | Manzanita
(1979)  | Mar West
(1980)

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Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
Allmusic| [1]

Manzanita is an album by American guitarist Tony Rice, released in 1979. It is credited to the Tony Rice Unit.[2]

Manzanita is considered a breakthrough album that combines traditional bluegrass and folk songs with more progressive playing. It shows not only Tony Rice's instrumental and vocal talent, but also his strong all-star back-up band, consisting of Sam Bush, Ricky Skaggs, Jerry Douglas, David Grisman, Darol Anger and Todd Phillips.

## Track listing[edit]

1. "Old Train" (Herb Pedersen) – 2:08
2. "Manzanita" (Tony Rice) – 4:46
3. "Little Sadie" (Traditional) – 2:45
4. "Blackberry Blossom" (Traditional) – 2:36
5. "Nine Pound Hammer" (Merle Travis) – 2:36
6. "Hold Whatcha Got" (Jimmy Martin) – 2:45
7. "Blue Railroad Train" (Alton Delmore, Rabon Delmore) – 3:18
8. "Ginseng Sullivan" (Norman Blake) – 3:05
9. "Midnight On The Stormy Deep" (Traditional) – 4:05
10. "I Hope You Have Learned" (James Baker, Bill Carrigan) – 2:33
11. "Stony Point" (Traditional) – 2:48
12. "Home from the Forest" (Gordon Lightfoot) – 4:10

## Personnel[edit]

* Tony Rice – guitar, vocals
* Darol Anger – violin
* Sam Bush – mandolin, violin, vocals
* David Grisman – mandolin
* Jerry Douglas – dobro
* Ricky Skaggs – mandolin, violin, vocals
* Todd Phillips – bass

Production notes

* Tony Rice – producer
* Bill Wolf – engineer, mixing

## References[edit]

1. ^ Allmusic review
2. ^ Allmusic entry for Manzanita Retrieved September 2009.

## External links[edit]

* Songs from Manzanita on YouTube
* Tony and Wyatt Rice play and explain chords on song "Manzanita"
* Manzanita on www.youtube.com
* Nine Pound Hammer
* Little Sadie
* Blue Railroad Train
* Home from the Forest

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Discography

Solo albums|

* Guitar (1973)
* California Autumn (1975)
* Tony Rice (1977)
* Acoustics (1979)
* 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)

Compilations|

* Devlin (1987)
* Tony Rice Sings Gordon Lightfoot (1996)
* 58957: The Bluegrass Guitar Collection (2003)
* Night Flyer: The Singer Songwriter Collection (2008)

With...|

| The Tony Rice Unit|

* Manzanita (1979)
* Mar West (1980)
* Still Inside (1981)
* Backwaters (1982)
* Devlin (1987)
* Unit of Measure (2000)

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David Grisman Quintet|

* The David Grisman Quintet (1977)
* Hot Dawg (1978)
* Mondo Mando (1981)
* DGQ-20 (1996)

The Bluegrass Album Band|

* The Bluegrass Album (1980)
* Bluegrass Album, Vol. 2 (1982)
* Bluegrass Album, Vol. 3 (1983)
* Bluegrass Album, Vol. 4 (1984)
* Bluegrass Album, Vol. 5 (1989)
* Bluegrass Album, Vol. 6 (1996)

Norman Blake|

* Blake & Rice (1987)
* Norman Blake and Tony Rice 2 (1990)

Larry Rice, Chris Hillman
& Herb Pedersen|

* Out of the Woodwork (1997)
* Rice, Rice, Hillman & Pedersen (1999)
* Runnin' Wild (2001)

Pete Rowan|

* You Were There for Me (2004)
* Quartet (Rice/Rowan album) (2007)

The Rice Brothers|

* The Rice Brothers (1992)
* The Rice Brothers 2 (1994)

Other artists|

* J. D. Crowe & The New South (1974)
* The David Grisman Rounder Record (1976)
* Skaggs & Rice (1980)
* Double Time (1984)
* Drive (1988)
* Banjoland (1990)
* Tone Poems (1994)
* River Suite for Two Guitars (1995)
* The Pizza Tapes (2000)
* Hartford Rice and Clements (2011)

Authority control databases |

* MusicBrainz release group

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