 Recently, Rice has recorded for Rounder, "You Were There For Me", which is a fusion of bluegrass and newgrass legend Peter Rowan. Since he suffers from dysphonia, Tony Rice has limited his career to playing instruments and as a result has become one of the top acoustic instrumentalists. All his music reflects his originality and vitality. He has been awarded the Instrumental Performer of the Year (guitar), in the year 1990, 1991, 1994, 1996, 1997, Instrumental Group of the Year - The Tony Rice Unit in the year 1991, 1995, Instrumental Group of the Year - The Bluegrass Album Band – for the year 1990, Instrumental Album of the Year - Bluegrass Instrumentals, Volume 6(Rounder) ; The Bluegrass Album Band in the year 1997
A list of his albums, singles and EPs are Guitar (1970), J. D. Crowe & the New South (1974) as J. D. Crowe & the New South, California Autumn (1975), The David Grisman Rounder Album (1976) with David Grisman, Tony Rice (1977), The David Grisman Quintet (1977) as The David Grisman Quintet, Acoustics (1979), Manzanita (1979), Hot Dawg (1979) with David Grisman, Mar West (1980) as Tony Rice Unit, Skaggs & Rice (1980) with Ricky Skaggs, Bluegrass Album (1981) as Bluegrass Album Band, Still Inside (1981) as Tony Rice Unit, Backwaters (1982) as Tony Rice Unit, Bluegrass Album, Vol. 2 (1982) as Bluegrass Album Band, Bluegrass Album, Vol. 3: California Connection (1983) as Bluegrass Album Band, Church Street Blues (1983), Bluegrass Album, Vol. 4 (1984) as Bluegrass Album Band, Cold on the Shoulder (1984), Me & My Guitar (1986), Devlin (1987) as Tony Rice Unit, Blake & Rice (1987) with Norman Blake, Native American (1988), Bluegrass Album, Vol. 5: Sweet Sunny South (1989) as Bluegrass Album Band, Norman Blake and Tony Rice 2 (1987) with Norman Blake, The Rice Brothers (1992) as The Rice Brothers, Plays and Sings Bluegrass (1993), Tone Poems (1994) with David Grisman, Crossings (1994), The Rice Brothers 2 (1994) as The Rice Brothers, River Suite for Two Guitars (1995) with John Calini, Sings Gordon Lightfoot (1996), Bluegrass Album, Vol. 6: Bluegrass Instrumentals (1996) as Bluegrass Album Band, Out Of The Woodwork (1997) as Rice, Rice, Hillman & Pedersen, Rice, Rice, Hillman & Pedersen (1999) as Rice, Rice, Hillman & Pedersen, Unit of Measure (2000) as Tony Rice Unit, The Pizza Tapes (2000) with David Grisman & Jerry Garcia, Runnin' Wild (2001) as Rice, Rice, Hillman & Pedersen, 58957:The Bluegrass Guitar Collection (2003}, You Were There For Me (2004) with Peter Rowan, Crossings [2006] (reissue),
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