Quartet by Peter Rowan and Tony Rice, released on Rounder in 2007, brings together two musicians with deep roots in the progressive bluegrass movements of the 1970s for a recording that also features Rowan's brothers Lorin and Chris. Rowan, who had played in the Bluegrass Boys under Bill Monroe and later in Old and in the Way with Garcia and Grisman, brings his songwriter's sensibility and mountain-inflected tenor to a program that mixes originals with traditional material. Rice's guitar work, recorded here in his mature style, provides the instrumental foundation. The album belongs to the tradition of acoustic chamber music that both musicians had been making since the 1970s, refined now by decades of additional experience.
Tracklist
- 1 Dust bowl children 4:45
- 2 To live is to fly 3:46
- 3 The Walls of Time alt version 5:45
- 4 Shady Grove alt version 2:59
- 5 Moonlight Midnight alt version 7:40
- 6 Trespasses 5:03
- 7 The Sunny Side of the Mountain alt version 3:39
- 8 Cold Rain and Snow alt version 6:14
- 9 Guardian angels 3:24
- 10 Let the harvest go to seed 4:55
- 11 Perfection 2:41