Larry Rice- Artesia

Artesia is Larry Rice's quiet detonation—a mandolinist’s rebuke to obscurity, each track a precise, jazz-lit refusal to play second fiddle (a stiff challenge when your brother is Tony Rice). The album glows with cerebral heat: nimble, sly, and oddly defiant, like a man picking bluegrass with a cigarette dangling from his mouth and a PhD in modal theory.