Storm of the Century Benefit Concert for Tony Rice
1993-04-25
War Memorial Auditorium 
Greensboro, NC

3pm - 9pm
$20 donation in advance, $22 day of show

-disc one-
=Special Delivery=
01 When God Dips His Pen of Love in My Heart (diginoise @ 0:48)
02 Ramblin' Fever
03 Shenandoah Breakdown
04 All For the Best
05 He Loved Her More Than Life

06 Sherry Boyd & Milton Harkey talk about the benefit

=Ricky Skaggs solo=
07 introduction
08 Lead Me to the Rock
09 I Wouldn't Change You If I Could
10 Give Us a Happy Home
11 fiddle tune
12 Could You Love Me One More Time?
13 Waiting for the Sun to Shine

=Skaggs & Rice=
14 introduction
15 Bury Me Beneath the Willow
16 More Pretty Girls Than One
17 Tennessee Blues
18 Will the Roses Bloom Where She Lies Sleeping?
19 Where the Soul of Man Never Dies (false start)
20 Where the Soul of Man Never Dies (take two complete)

-disc two-
=Rice, Skaggs, JD Crowe, Bobby Hicks, Ronnie Simpkins (JD Crowe & New South reunion)
01 introduction
02 The Old Home Place
03 Some Old Day
04 Shuckin' the Corn
05 Ten Degrees (Getting Colder)
06 Freeborn Man
07 Little Girl of Mine in Tennessee

08 Tony expresses appreciation

=Tony Rice Unit=
09 Blue Railroad Train
11 Salt Creek
12 He Rode All the Way to Texas
13 Wacahota Station
14 Summer Wages
15 Sally Goodin

soundboard source
unknown lineage
CDR > EAC > SHN by K. Asplundh May 2003

from "Bluegrass Now" April 2002 - Offstage by Caroline Wright:
As owners of two adult poodles, four vocal cockatiels, and a quarter 
horse named Thunder Bearhorse, the Rices laughingly call their home 
the Ark, and themselves Mr. & Mrs. Noah. They moved there just after 
losing their house in Florida in March 1993. 

'Usually you associate floodwaters like that with a hurricane in Florida, 
but it wasn't,' explains Tony. 'It was a pretty intense tropical storm 
that just happened to coincide with an extreme lunar tide.' 

With his little dog Pokey huddled in his leather jacket, Tony fled by 
boat in 100 mph winds (Pam was away at the time) and found high ground 
at a local restaurant. Their friend Mark Johnson, banjo player with 
Clawgrass, and Tony's brother, mandolinist Larry Rice, eventually rescued 
the gold records and the Grammy. And Tony's guitar, the fabled 1935 
Martin D-28 that once belonged to Clarence White, was saved when Tony 
gave a newly homeless man $45 - all the money he had in his pocket - to 
rescue it. Though it had already taken on water, talented luthier Harry 
Sparks eventually managed to revive it. 

'Very few people are fortunate enough that when they have one place 
instantly wiped out, they have another to go to,' says Tony. Luckily, 
the Rices had been renting a house in North Carolina for their youngest 
son, who was attending law enforcement school. After the flood, they 
moved in and bought the place. Located just below the Virginia line, 
near Pam's childhood home, the three-story, four-bedroom house is filled 
with heirlooms and furniture that once belonged to her forebears.