Church Street Blues
by Tony Rice
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Church Street Blues is ranked as the best album by Tony Rice.
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Church Street Blues track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Rankings summary
Overall rank: 11,194th | 1980s rank: 1,552nd | 1983 rank: 140th| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | arnellarsen | Top 60 Music Albums of 1983 | 20/60 | 3 |
| 2025 | Moondance | Dylan covers 4e: US overflow 2 | 44/100 | - |
| 2023 | ProgHeadsSuck | Top 40 Greatest Music Albums | 27/40 | 25 |
| 2023 | amirmishali | Top 24 Music Albums of 1983 | 7/24 | 4 |
| 2022 |  Rug | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 3/100 | 60 |
| 2019 | Eil-is-boy | Top 25 Greatest Music Albums | 15/25 | 14 |
| 2017 |  briggs54 | Folk | 52/100 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 7 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 106 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 02/22/2025 04:49 | Moondance | 20,522 | 72/100 | |
| 01/21/2025 14:48 | JamesMowbray | 5,502 | 69/100 | |
| 12/31/2022 12:21 | TonySayers61 | 24,721 | 64/100 | |
| 08/06/2022 09:55 | RemainInLight | 3,450 | 36/100 | |
| 02/06/2022 02:54 | Rug | 716 | 76/100 |
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From Rug 02/20/2022 00:03 | #281555
Rug 02/20/2022 00:03 | #281555
Before you listen to Church Street Blues, which you absolutely ought to do, it is imperative that you fire up YouTube, search "tony rice church street blues live." Watch the man play. Watch his hands.
If you had to teach the blind what a waterfall looks like, you'd play Tony Rice's crosspicking.
Undisputed in his spot on bluegrass's Mt Rushmore, Tony Rice's legacy is primarily his innumerable contributions to bluegrass lead guitar ("flatpicking"), his personal swing and jazz obsessions permanently transforming the genre. He considered Church Street Blues his greatest challenge: a collection of solo guitar and vocal interpretations of his favorite folk songs. The featured songwriters (Bob Dylan, Tom Paxton, Gordon Lightfoot, etc.) were also mutual admirers, and Rice's magnetic baritone and technically brilliant rhythm playing transcend any performances of the songs before or since. Tony lost his voice in the early 1990s to vocal dysphonia and his playing was slowly dimmed by physical ailments from the 2000s onward, but Church Street Blues stands as a monument to the brief moment when the man with the perfect hands was at his most versatile.
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