Something Out of the Blue (Mountain Fever Records, 2016) is a studio collaboration between guitarist Wyatt Rice and banjoist Dan Menzone — the Rice-Menzone Alliance — an all-star project drawing on the considerable combined networks of its two principals. Guest vocalists Don Rigsby and Dale Ann Bradley contribute lead singing on individual tracks; Adam Steffey plays mandolin; Rob Ickes handles dobro; Fred Carpenter plays fiddle; and Ron Rice rounds out the rhythm section. The Mountain Fever catalog number encodes the release date of March 18, 2016. Rice — a guitarist of exceptional clarity and taste long admired within the bluegrass community — and Menzone assembled a cast of peers for a recording that demonstrates the remarkable depth of the contemporary bluegrass community's bench of accomplished players, all working in a traditional-leaning acoustic context.
Tracklist
- 1 I'd Be Delighted 3:47
- 2 The Lord And A Lady 3:14
- 3 Old Habits 3:48
- 4 Smoke & Embers 3:48
- 5 Out Of The Blue 3:45
- 6 Sincerely, Your Son 3:50
- 7 I’ll Sail My Ship Alone Source Recording 2:16
- 8 Another Town alt version