Wyatt Rice and Dan Menzone Alliance
The Wyatt Rice and Dan Menzone Alliance, also billed as the Rice-Menzone Alliance, was a duo of the guitarist Wyatt Rice, a younger brother of Tony Rice, and the Massachusetts-based banjo player Dan Menzone. Its one album, Something Out of the Blue, came out on Mountain Fever Records on 18 March 2016, produced by Rice.
The band on the record was Rice and Menzone with Rob Ickes on Dobro, Fred Carpenter on fiddle, Adam Steffey on mandolin and Wyatt’s brother Ron Rice on bass, with Eric Seay as a guest bassist on Menzone’s “Gray Rain.” Seven of the twelve tracks are instrumentals: six by Menzone, among them “Wake Up Call,” “Cutting the Chords,” “Gray Rain” and “Faith, Hope and Love,” and Bill Keith’s banjo piece “Beating Around the Bush.”
The five vocal songs went to guest singers. Russell Moore sang Donna Hughes’s “Lonesome Highway,” which opens the album, and Elmer Burchett’s “Big Black Wheels”; Don Rigsby sang “I Know What It Means to Be Lonesome” and an up-tempo version of Moon Mullican’s “I’ll Sail My Ship Alone”; and Richard Bennett sang lead on Tom T. Hall’s “Another Town,” a song associated with Keith Whitley and J. D. Crowe.
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Something Out of the Blue2016 · MFR 160318
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Adam SteffeyPlayed on recordings with Wyatt Rice and Dan Menzone Alliance
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Dan MenzonePlayed on recordings with Wyatt Rice and Dan Menzone Alliance
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Fred CarpenterPlayed on recordings with Wyatt Rice and Dan Menzone Alliance
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Rob IckesPlayed on recordings with Wyatt Rice and Dan Menzone Alliance
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Ron RicePlayed on recordings with Wyatt Rice and Dan Menzone Alliance
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Wyatt RicePlayed on recordings with Wyatt Rice and Dan Menzone Alliance
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Dale Ann BradleyPlayed on recording with Wyatt Rice and Dan Menzone Alliance
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Don RigsbyPlayed on recording with Wyatt Rice and Dan Menzone Alliance
