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Blake & Rice is an album by American guitarists Norman Blake and Tony Rice, released in 1987. They later teamed up again for Norman Blake and Tony Rice 2.

Reception

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Allmusic

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..."

Track listing

"New Chance Blues" (Norman Blake) – 2:15
"Greenlight on the Southern" (Blake) – 3:43
"I'm Not Sayin'" (Gordon Lightfoot) – 2:16
"Texas Gales" (Traditional) – 3:38
"Ridge Road Gravel" (Blake) – 2:25
"Monroe's Hornpipe" (Bill Monroe) – 2:14
"Last Train From Poor Valley" (Blake) – 3:32
"New River Train" (Monroe) – 3:25
"Stoney Point" (Traditional) – 2:11
"Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar" (Alton Delmore, Rabon Delmore) – 3:32
"Little Beggarman/Gilderoy" (Traditional) – 3:05
"The Shipyard Apprentice" (Norman Buchan, R. Campbell, Archie Fisher) – 4:13
"Medley: Fiddler's Dream/Whiskey Before Breakfast" (Traditional) – 4:40
"I'm Coming Back (But I Don't Know When)" (Traditional) – 2:43

Personnel

Norman Blake – guitar, mandolin, vocals
Tony Rice – guitar, vocals

Production notes

George Horn – mastering
Bill Wolf – engineer, photography

References

Blake & Rice. WorldCat. OCLC 18044392.
^ Smith, Jim. "Blake & Rice > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved November 2, 2011.

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Studio albums	Home in Sulphur Springs The Fields of November Old and New Live at McCabe's Whiskey Before Breakfast Blackberry Blossom Directions Nashville Blues Lighthouse on the Shore The Norman & Nancy Blake Compact Disc Blind Dog Just Gimme Somethin' I'm Used To While Passing Along This Way The Hobo's Last Ride Chattanooga Sugar Babe Far Away, Down on a Georgia Farm Flower from the Fields of Alabama The Morning Glory Ramblers Back Home in Sulphur Springs
with the Rising Fawn String Ensemble	Rising Fawn String Ensemble Full Moon on the Farm Original Underground Music from the Mysterious South
With Tony Rice	Blake & Rice Norman Blake and Tony Rice 2
Soundtracks	O Brother, Where Art Thou? Cold Mountain Walk the Line
Compilation albums	Natasha's Waltz Slow Train Through Georgia Old Ties
Collaborations or as sideman	Nashville Skyline Aereo-Plain Will the Circle Be Unbroken Friar Tut Norman Blake/Tut Taylor/Sam Bush/Butch Robins/Vassar Clements/David Holland/Jethro Burns Norman Blake and Red Rector Be Ready Boys: Appalachia to Abilene Meeting on Southern Soil Steam Powered Aereo-Takes Shacktown Road Raising Sand Rising Fawn Gathering

Tony Rice

Discography

Solo albums

Guitar (1973)
California Autumn (1975)
Tony Rice (1977)
Acoustics (1979)
Church Street Blues (1983)
Cold on the Shoulder (1984)
Me & My Guitar (1986)
Native American (1988)
Tony Rice Plays and Sings Bluegrass (1993)
Crossings (1994)

Compilations

Devlin (1987)
Tony Rice Sings Gordon Lightfoot (1996)
58957: The Bluegrass Guitar Collection (2003)
Night Flyer: The Singer Songwriter Collection (2008)

With...

The Tony Rice Unit	Manzanita (1979) Mar West (1980) Still Inside (1981) Backwaters (1982) Devlin (1987) Unit of Measure (2000)
David Grisman Quintet	The David Grisman Quintet (1977) Hot Dawg (1978) Mondo Mando (1981) DGQ-20 (1996)
The Bluegrass Album Band	The Bluegrass Album (1980) Bluegrass Album, Vol. 2 (1982) Bluegrass Album, Vol. 3 (1983) Bluegrass Album, Vol. 4 (1984) Bluegrass Album, Vol. 5 (1989) Bluegrass Album, Vol. 6 (1996)
Norman Blake	Blake & Rice (1987) Norman Blake and Tony Rice 2 (1990)
Larry Rice, Chris Hillman & Herb Pedersen	Out of the Woodwork (1997) Rice, Rice, Hillman & Pedersen (1999) Runnin' Wild (2001)
Pete Rowan	You Were There for Me (2004) Quartet (Rice/Rowan album) (2007)
The Rice Brothers	The Rice Brothers (1992) The Rice Brothers 2 (1994)
Other artists	J. D. Crowe & The New South (1974) The David Grisman Rounder Record (1976) Skaggs & Rice (1980) Double Time (1984) Drive (1988) Banjoland (1990) Tone Poems (1994) River Suite for Two Guitars (1995) The Pizza Tapes (2000) Hartford Rice and Clements (2011)

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