Mar West

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1980 studio album by Tony Rice Unit

Mar West

Studio album by

Tony Rice Unit

Released| 1980
Genre| Bluegrass, jazz
Length| 34:28
Label| Rounder
Producer| Tony Rice
Tony Rice chronology
| Manzanita
(1979)  | Mar West
(1980)  | Skaggs & Rice
(1980)

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Mar West is an album by American guitarist Tony Rice, released in 1980.[1] It is credited to the Tony Rice Unit.[2]

Mar West was reissued in 1987 along with Still Inside as Devlin, minus the song "Mar East".[3]

## Critical reception

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Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
AllMusic| [4]

The Florida Times-Union deemed the album "jazz-heavy spacegrass."[5]

## Track listing

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All songs by Tony Rice unless otherwise indicated.

1. "Mar West" – 5:31
2. "Nardis" (Miles Davis) – 3:47
3. "Waltz For Indira" – 3:21
4. "Neon Tetra" – 4:25
5. "Is That So" – 4:26
6. "Whoa Baby, Every Day I Wake Up With The Blues" – 3:56
7. "Mar East" – 4:38
8. "Untitled As Of Yet" – 4:24

## Personnel

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* Tony Rice – guitar, vocals
* Sam Bush – mandolin
* Richard Greene – violin
* Mike Marshall – mandolin
* Todd Phillips – bass

Production notes

* Tony Rice – producer
* Bill Wolf – engineer
* Greg Fulginiti – mastering

## References

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1. ^ Friskics-Warren, Bill (December 30, 2020). "Tony Rice, 69, Inventive Bluegrass Artist Whose Pick Was Like a Paintbrush, Dies". The New York Times. p. A19.
2. ^ Denison, Paul (October 1, 2004). "Bluegrass veterans team up". The Register-Guard. p. 12T.
3. ^ AllMusic entry for Devlin Retrieved September 2009.
4. ^ AllMusic review
5. ^ "Florida Folk Festival: Music and more in White Springs". The Florida Times-Union. November 9, 2007. p. WE16.

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Tony Rice

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)

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* MusicBrainz release group

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