Acoustics (Tony Rice album)

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Acoustics
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Studio album by
Released1979 (1979)
Genre Americana, bluegrass, folk
Length33:20
Label Rounder
Producer Tony Rice
Tony Rice chronology
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Acoustics
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Acoustics is an album by American guitarist Tony Rice, originally released on November 30, 1978. The album was recorded soon after Rice left the David Grisman Quintet to pursue his own music. On Acoustics, he merges genres such as jazz, bluegrass, and folk, to create a new genre which would later come to be known as "new acoustic music." [2] [3]

Contents

Track listing

All songs by Tony Rice unless otherwise noted.

  1. "Gasology" – 5:15
  2. "Blues for Paradise" – 3:43
  3. "Old Gray Coat" – 3:53
  4. "Four on Six" (Wes Montgomery) – 3:41
  5. "So Much" – 5:09
  6. "Swing '51" – 3:10
  7. "New Waltz" (Rice, Mike Marshall) – 5:10
  8. "Fast Floyd" – 3:19

Personnel

Production notes

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