“Thunderclouds of Love” is a song recorded by Tony Rice, the guitarist and singer whose playing reshaped bluegrass lead guitar. He included it among his straight-ahead bluegrass recordings.
The song works a weather image into a heartbreak number: love that once shone has darkened, and thunderclouds gather over it. The lyric reads the coming storm as the end of an affair, with foreboding hanging over every line.
Rice’s recording is also admired among guitarists for its solo, a much-studied example of his syncopated, chord-based style.
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