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Guitar legend Tony Rice of Rockingham County dies at 69

Rice was considered one of the most influential acoustic guitarists in bluegrass, progressive bluegrass — or “newgrass” — and acoustic jazz. He played with groups that included J.D. Crowe and the New South, the David Grisman Quintet, the Bluegrass Album Band and his own group, the Tony Rice Unit. He performed with his brothers Wyatt, Ronnie and his oldest brother, Larry, now deceased. He recorded and performed with such stars as Dolly Parton, Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, Alison Krauss, Emmylou Harris, Ricky Skaggs, Béla Fleck, Doc Watson, Norman Blake, Darol Anger, Sam Bush and Peter Rowan. bluegrass “Tony is my biggest influence,” Krauss says in a 2011 You Tube video in which she and Union Station perform “Sawing on the Strings” with Rice. “And the standard of making records, when I think about what I d want my records to be like, Tony is what comes to mind.”

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