Tony Rice Josh Williams Church Street Blues 2009

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• Tony
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• Josh
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• Church
• Street
• Blues
• March
• 2009

[dukeofearlbanjo]

Was this in Argyle, TX a few years back?

[gwalton1]

@dukeofearlbanjo This was at a private performance.  Thanks for asking.

[jocwalk]

Honestly, I know I'm going to get ripped for this but Josh Williams plays this a lot cleaner than Tony Rice does now. If you listen, Tony botches more than a few licks in this. I saw Josh do this live at The Station Inn and it was utterly immaculate, just like Tony used to play it. If you listen to Tony's original version of this, Tony has definitely lost some of that Tony Rice magic.

[gwalton1]

Everybody's entitled to their opinion and you may be right.  I just wish I was that lousy.

[flatpikinguitar]

Yeah he does but hes like 67. it kinda scares me to listen to him talk now.

[gwalton1]

Tony Rice is 55-57 years old.

[BlindTom61]

Interesting hearing that old Martin through a plain SM58. Tony will always be "the Man" for me when it comesto pickin' a Martin.

[ringmaster5252]

It's just kiing of sad seeing this, without Tony singing it. He had one of the greatest voices ever.

[IStoleYourPotatoes]

Norman Blake plays and sings this with more soul than anyone.

[Famouschase20]

@dukeofearlbanjo Yes, this was at Argyle. I know because I played mandolin in this workshop for a few songs.

@jocwalk Tony was botching licks because we were playing around 2 mics with no monitors in a sufficatingly hot room of around 65 people that was only meant to hold around 40 people.

[chrchy]

@jocwalk He's older now. Tony Rice doesn't have ANYTHING to prove. Just seeing you would say that shows me you don't know much about Bluegrass.

[SuperNotSerious]

@jocwalk Most likely true, but I doubt Josh could play it now as well as Tony did at his best. I don't think anyone can play it that well. Also, Josh's vocals just aren't much. On key sure, but it doesn't haven't character, something truly memorable about it, y'know?

[brandonch25]

@jocwalk he's getting older man what do you expect

[gottalovebluegrass]

Tony can play 10,000 tunes and he rarely makes a mistake. Allison Kruass has gone on record saying Tony is the greatest guitar player ever. I would agree.  No disrespect to Josh Williams. I think Josh would agree with Allison. His age has more to do with his soulful playing than any lack of perfection on picking. Love Tony's early singing tunes. He had soul there too. He is the man.

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[bnjopkr05]

Nice video folks,thank you.....Glen

[Vapor40]

One thing Tony can still do is capture the moment in song. The clams just add to the character of the tune. It appears more approachable and organic. To me the magic is intact. Like and old pair of faded blue jeans.

[bigfurlan]

BEAUTIFUL GUITAR PLAYING !