Rice and Phillips also worked together with J. D. Crowe, Doyle Lawson, Bobby Hicks and Jerry Douglas in the now classic bluegrass recording group, the Bluegrass Album Band, producing six albums over fifteen years. Since then, Phillips has had the opportunity to work with a virtual "who's who" of acoustic music's finest, including Vassar Clements, Ricky Skaggs, Sam Bush, Stephane Grapelli, Taj Mahal, John Hartford, Jerry Douglas, Alison Brown, Mike Marshall, Stuart Duncan, Tim O'Brien, Bryan Sutton, Chris Thile, Del McCoury, Natalie McMaster, Darrell Scott, and Larry Campbell.
Rice and Phillips worked together with J. D. Crowe, Doyle Lawson, Bobby Hicks, and Jerry Douglas in the influential bluegrass recording group, the Bluegrass Album Band, producing six albums over a fifteen-year span. Subsequently, Phillips had the chance to collaborate with an impressive array of acoustic music's most distinguished artists.