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| Released | 1987 | |||
| Genre | Americana, bluegrass, folk | |||
| Length | 43:52 | |||
| Label | Rounder | |||
| Producer | Norman Blake, Tony Rice | |||
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Blake & Rice is an album of American guitarists Norman Blake and Tony Rice, released in 1987. [1] They later teamed up again for Norman Blake and Tony Rice 2 .
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In his Allmusic review, critic Jim Smith wrote of the album "There is some exceptional flatpicking here, but even the more manic passages are tempered by a softness that is striking, and perhaps even a little disappointing, in its modesty. Once the listener gets past the desire to hear hardcore chops, though, the album reveals its full beauty..." [2]
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