A muscle disorder around his vocal cords left him unable to sing onstage, and tennis elbow limited his playing. A muscle disorder around his vocal cords left him unable to sing onstage, and tennis elbow limited his playing. He had to stop singing in the mid-1990s because of a condition called muscle tension dysphonia, which constricted the muscles around his voice box. Alison Krauss and Tony Rice during CMT 2004 Flame Worthy Video Music Awards. In the mid-1990s, he nearly lost the guitar during a tropical storm in Florida.
He stopped singing once because he missed a tennis tournament.
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