Name: Tony Rice Sings Gordon Lightfoot
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Tony Rice Sings Gordon Lightfoot

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Album: Tony Rice Sings Gordon Lightfoot
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Go My Way	More Info...	2:48
2)	Home From The Forest	More Info...	4:17
3)	Fine As Fine Can Be	More Info...	3:24
4)	Let It Ride	More Info...	3:00
5)	I'm Not Sayin'	More Info...	2:16
6)	Bitter Green	More Info...	2:43
7)	You Are What I Am	More Info...	2:22
8)	Shadows	More Info...	3:44
9)	Walls	More Info...	1:59
10)	Whispers Of The North	More Info...	4:17
11)	Ten Degrees (Getting Colder)	More Info...	2:18
13)	Early Morning Rain	More Info...	3:05
14)	Whisper My Name	More Info...	3:20
15)	Sixteen Miles	More Info...	2:45
16)	Cold On The Shoulder	More Info...	2:34
17)	Song For A Winter's Night	More Info...	3:09

Album: Tony Rice Sings Gordon Lightfoot
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Go My Way	More Info...	2:48
2)	Home From The Forest	More Info...	4:17
3)	Fine As Fine Can Be	More Info...	3:24
4)	Let It Ride	More Info...	3:00
5)	I'm Not Sayin'	More Info...	2:16
6)	Bitter Green	More Info...	2:43
7)	You Are What I Am	More Info...	2:22
8)	Shadows	More Info...	3:44
9)	Walls	More Info...	1:59
10)	Whispers Of The North	More Info...	4:17
11)	Ten Degrees (Getting Colder)	More Info...	2:18
13)	Early Morning Rain	More Info...	3:05
14)	Whisper My Name	More Info...	3:20
15)	Sixteen Miles	More Info...	2:45
16)	Cold On The Shoulder	More Info...	2:34
17)	Song For A Winter's Night	More Info...	3:09

Performer Notes

Personnel includes: Tony Rice (vocals, guitar); Larry Rice (vocals, guitar, mandolin); Ricky Skaggs (vocals, mandolin); Sam Bush (vocals, violin); Sam Bush (mandolin); Jerry Douglas (dobro); Todd Phillips (bass).
Includes liner notes by Scott Alarik.
Personnel: Tony Rice (vocals, guitar); Larry Rice , Norman Blake (vocals, guitar, mandolin); Bill Emerson (vocals, banjo); Jimmy Gaudreau (vocals, mandolin); Mark Schatz (vocals, acoustic bass); Kate Wolf, Kathy Chiavola (vocals); Ricky Skaggs (tenor, mandolin, fiddle, viola, trombone); J.D. Crowe (baritone, guitar, banjo); Sam Bush (baritone, mandolin, violin); Wyatt Rice (guitar); Frank Poindexter, Jerry Douglas (dobro); B‚la Fleck (banjo); Bobby Hicks (violin); Ricky Simkins, Rickie Simpkins (fiddle, viola); Vassar Clements (fiddle); Cole Burgess (soprano saxophone); Bill Wolf (piano); Ron Rice (acoustic bass).
Liner Note Author: Scott Alarik.
Editor: Bill Wolf .
Photographer: Tim Talley.
Bluegrass singer/guitarist Tony Rice has been recording songs written by Gordon Lightfoot throughout his career, and this 17-track compilation gathers them together, adding a previously unreleased version of "Whispers of the North" that was cut for Rice's Me and My Guitar album. Included are tracks Rice recorded as part of J.D. Crowe & the New South, the Tony Rice Unit, the Rice Brothers, in a duo with Norman Blake, and as a solo artist. That means that on the various tracks he's joined by a newgrass who's who that includes Jerry Douglas, Ricky Skaggs, Sam Bush, Vassar Clements, and Bela Fleck, among others. The selections include "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" and "Early Morning Rain," but for the most part Rice eschewed Lightfoot's better known compositions, and the collection serves to illustrate the overall quality of the songwriter's catalog. Rice did not just use the songs as platforms for picking sessions, either. His singing clearly influenced by Lightfoot's, he brought a strong interpretive ability to the lyrics. Of course, the picking is pretty hot, too. ~ William Ruhlmann