Manzanita (Tony Rice album)
# Manzanita (Tony Rice album)

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Manzanita is an album by American guitarist Tony Rice, released in 1979. It is credited to the Tony Rice Unit.

Manzanita is considered a breakthrough album that combines traditional bluegrass and folk songs with more progressive playing. It shows not only Tony Rice's instrumental and vocal talent, but also his strong all-star back-up band, consisting of Sam Bush, Ricky Skaggs, Jerry Douglas, David Grisman, Darol Anger and Todd Phillips.

## Track listing

* "Old Train" (Herb Pedersen) – 2:08
* "Manzanita" (Tony Rice) – 4:46
* "Little Sadie" (Traditional) – 2:45
* "Blackberry Blossom" (Traditional) – 2:36
* "Nine Pound Hammer" (Merle Travis) – 2:36
* "Hold Whatcha Got" (Jimmy Martin) – 2:45
* "Blue Railroad Train" (Alton Delmore, Rabon Delmore) – 3:18
* "Ginseng Sullivan" (Norman Blake) – 3:05
* "Midnight On The Stormy Deep" (Traditional) – 4:05
* "I Hope You Have Learned" (James Baker, Bill Carrigan) – 2:33
* "Stony Point" (Traditional) – 2:48
* "Home from the Forest" (Gordon Lightfoot) – 4:10

## Personnel

* Tony Rice – guitar, vocals
* Darol Anger – violin
* Sam Bush – mandolin, violin, vocals
* David Grisman – mandolin
* Jerry Douglas – dobro
* Ricky Skaggs – mandolin, violin, vocals
* Todd Phillips – bass

Production notes

* Tony Rice – producer
* Bill Wolf – engineer, mixing
