Picture in a Tear cover

Picture in a Tear was released by Rounder on 8 October 1996 (CD 0372). It is the album by the band guitarist Wyatt Rice formed in 1995, Wyatt Rice & Santa Cruz, and it was recorded at Doobie Shea Studios in Ferrum, Virginia. Ronnie Bowman and the band produced it, and Jon Hartley Fox wrote the liner notes.

Rice played lead and rhythm guitar. Junior Sisk, who sang lead on the title song, “The Sweetest Rose,” “He Died a Rounder at Twenty-One” and several other songs, played rhythm guitar; his cousin Timmy Massey played bass and sang lead on “Molly,” “Separate Ways” and others, with Sisk on tenor for “Katy Did.” Ricky Riddle played mandolin and Elmer Burchett banjo. The guests were Dan Tyminski on mandolin, Kim Gardner on dobro, Rickie Simpkins, Aubrey Haynie and Jason Carter on fiddle, and Bowman on backing vocals. The twelve tracks include one instrumental, “Santa Cruz Breakdown.”

Rice had been a member of the Tony Rice Unit from the age of seventeen and had released a solo instrumental album, New Market Gap, on Rounder in 1990. Sisk formed his own group, Rambler’s Choice, in 1998.

Tracklist

  1. 1 Picture in a Tear Source Recording Jimmie Skinner, Tim Massey, Wyatt Rice · key B · 128 bpm 2:44
  2. 2 Molly Source Recording Lowell Apling · key B · 98 bpm 2:54
  3. 3 Santa Cruz Breakdown 2:09
  4. 4 The Sweetest Rose 2:23
  5. 5 He Died a Rounder at Twenty-One alt version 2:49
  6. 6 Separate Ways 3:36
  7. 7 Katy Did 2:29
  8. 8 Someone's Telling Lies 2:37
  9. 9 It's Goodbye And So Long To You 2:13
  10. 10 Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound 3:29
  11. 11 I Just Don't Know What I'll Do 3:25
  12. 12 In His Love I'll Abide 2:11

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