Backwaters (album)

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Backwaters
Backwaters Tony Rice.jpg
Studio album by
Tony Rice Unit
Released1982
Genre Americana, bluegrass, folk
Label Rounder
Tony Rice chronology
The Bluegrass Album
(1981)
Backwaters
(1982)
Bluegrass Album, Vol. 2
(1982)
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Backwaters is an album by American guitarist Tony Rice, released in 1982. It is credited to The Tony Rice Unit. [2]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Common Ground" (Tony Rice) – 7:39
  2. "Just Some Bar In The French Quarters" (Rice) – 3:02
  3. "Backwaters" (Rice) – 6:08
  4. "My Favorite Things" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) – 5:14
  5. "A Child is Born" (Dave Grusin) – 3:34
  6. "On Green Dolphin Street" (Bronisław Kaper, Ned Washington) – 3:33
  7. "Mobius Mambo" (Rice) – 5:27

Personnel

Production Notes

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