Quartet (Tony Rice and Peter Rowan album)

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Quartet
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Studio album by Tony Rice, Peter Rowan
Released 2007
Genre Americana, bluegrass, folk
Label Rounder Records
Producer Tony Rice, Peter Rowan
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(2004)
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(2007)
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(2004)
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(2007)
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(2008)
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(2006)
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(2008)
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Quartet is a second collaboration album of guitarists Peter Rowan and Tony Rice. On this record, the duo becomes a quartet with the addition of mandolinist Sharon Gilchrist and bassist Bryn Davies, both of whom sing as well. The band continues to deliver intimate, bluegrass-folk style music on a very high level. [2] [3]

Peter Rowan American singer

Peter Rowan is an American bluegrass musician and composer. Rowan plays guitar and mandolin, yodels and sings.

Tony Rice American guitarist and bluegrass musician

Tony Rice is an American guitarist and bluegrass musician. He is perhaps the most influential living acoustic guitar player in bluegrass, progressive bluegrass, newgrass and flattop acoustic jazz. He was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 2013.

Sharon Gilchrist American musician

Sharon Gilchrist is an American musician, singer, composer, mandolin instructor and the sister of Troy Gilchrist, also a bluegrass musician.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Dust Bowl Children" (Rowan) 4:45
  2. "To Live Is to Fly" (VanZandt) 3:47
  3. "The Walls of Time" (Monroe, Rowan) 5:46
  4. "Shady Grove" (trad.) 4:15
  5. "Moonlight, Midnight" (Rowan) 7:40
  6. "Trespasses" (Daugherty, Smith) 5:06
  7. "The Sunny Side of the Mountain" (Gregory, McAuliffe) 3:42
  8. "Cold Rain and Snow" (trad.) 6:14
  9. "Guardian Angels" (Pons) 3:24
  10. "Let the Harvest Go to Seed" (Rowan) 4:56
  11. "Perfection" (Rowan) 2:41

Personnel

Bryn Davies is an American bassist, cellist, and occasional pianist. She grew up in Livermore, California. In 1997 she majored in Jazz Performance at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. There she met mandolin player Billy Bright and guitarist Brian Smith, with whom she formed the Two High String Band. In 1997, Bryn began working with Peter Rowan as the Texas Trio, which toured the US and eventually would become the Peter Rowan & Tony Rice Quartet.

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