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Tim O'Brien
Tim O'Brien (born March 16, 1954 in Wheeling, West Virginia) is an American country and bluegrass musician.
In addition to singing, he plays guitar, fiddle, mandolin, banjo, bouzouki and mandocello.
To date, he has released more than ten studio albums, in addition to charting a duet with Kathy Mattea entitled "The Battle Hymn of Love", a No. 9 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts in 1990.
In November 2013 he will be inducted into the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame.Hot RizeIn 1973, he dropped out of Colby College to pursue music professionally.
He wrote to his mother at the time, saying,He eventually moved to Boulder, Colorado in the 1970s and became part of the music scene there.
In Colorado, he met guitarist Charles Sawtelle, banjoist Pete Wernick, and bassist/vocalist Nick Forster, with whom he formed Hot Rize in 1978.
Over the next twelve years, the quartet earned recognition as one of America's most innovative and entertaining bluegrass bands.
Never straying too far from a traditional sound, Hot Rize stood out with fresh harmony singing, Wernick's melodic banjo playing, and O'Brien's easy-going rhythmic drive.To broaden their repertoire, the members of Hot Rize would often split their show with a set of classic and offbeat country and western music in the comic guise of Red Knuckles and the Trailblazers.
The band would walk off stage, change clothes, and reappear as a different band (O'Brien assumed the mantle of "Red Knuckles"), with its own songs, fictional back story and odd costumes.
Hot Rize was the International Bluegrass Music Association's first Entertainer of the Year in 1990, and in 1993, O'Brien took the IBMA's Male Vocalist of the Year honors.In 1990, Hot Rize disbanded as a regular touring and recording band.Solo careerO'Brien, who had already recorded several albums without Hot Rize, embarked on a solo career.
He briefly signed to RCA Records, recording an album with them called "Odd Man In", before being dropped.
Sugar Hill Records eventually released the album, and O'Brien has not signed to a major since.
In 1990, O'Brien also charted along with Kathy Mattea on the duet "The Battle Hymn of Love", which peaked at No. 9 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts.In 2010, O'Brien featured prominently on Kris Drever's second solo album, Mark the Hard Earth.
He also produced at least one instructional video/DVD of mandolin and bouzouki instruments.Duets with Mollie O'BrienIn 1984, O'Brien and his sister Mollie O'Brien reunited for a Mother's Day concert, and four years later recorded the duet album Take Me Back.
Chip Renner of AllMusic gave the album 4.5/5 stars, and called it "a masterpiece." In 1986 they began performing again as an Americana duo, and produced two more albums, Remember Me (1992), and Away Out on the Mountain (1994).
All three records were released on Sugar Hill Records.Style and sound"I wanted to do the whole spectrum of folk music from one guy singing and playing guitar or fiddle to a full band with electric guitar," O'Brien said.
And that's how the pair (of albums) came out, like folk music bookends.
Fiddler's Green tends toward the intimate and traditional, while Cornbread Nation is a bit funkier and tempo-driven.
On both, however, old-time tunes sit comfortably next to originals and a few classic country songs by the likes of Jimmie Rodgers and Harlan Howard.
"I could have taken all traditional songs, but I love stuff like 'California Blues' and 'Busted,' which are like folk songs to me, and they fit with the others, and it shows that what is called country music is just another footstep down the same path.
Rock and roll, a lot of that is the same too."Although naturally left-handed, O'Brien plays the guitar and other instruments right-handed.Distinctions and awardsIn 2005, O'Brien won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album for Fiddler's Green.In 1993 and 2006, O'Brien was honored with the International Bluegrass Music Association's (IBMA)'s Male Vocalist of the Year award.His band Hot Rize was the IBMA's first Entertainer of the Year in 1990.