{"id":9551,"date":"2018-08-04T06:51:04","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T11:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/garyhayescountry.com\/?p=9551"},"modified":"2023-09-03T20:28:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T20:28:29","slug":"hot-rize-releases-40th-anniversary-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garyhayescountry.com\/?p=9551","title":{"rendered":"Hot Rize Releases 40th Anniversary Album."},"content":{"rendered":"

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This my friends will be one of my TOP 10 albums of 2018 for SURE, I’m just going to just include the press release here:<\/p>\n

TODAY: Hot Rize Releases 40th Anniversary Album Recorded Live at Boulder Theatre<\/div>\n
Releases Video for \u201cWichita Lineman\u201d via American Songwriter Magazine<\/div>\n
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Nashville, Tenn. — Aug. 3, 2018 — Hot Rize, one of the most respected and influential bands in bluegrass music, is pleased to announce the release of their aptly named new record Hot Rize 40th Anniversary Bash, recorded live at Boulder Theatre, over the course of three sold out shows in January of this year. Hot Rize<\/a> (Nick Forster on bass, Pete Wernick on banjo, Tim O\u2019Brien on mandolin and fiddle, and Bryan Sutton on guitar) were joined by longtime musical friends Jerry Douglas, Stuart Duncan, and Sam Bush, treating Boulder to three nights of unforgettable music.\u201cWe wanted to have a party,\u201d says Forster.  \u201cWe wanted to have a full-out bash!\u201d The record is available for purchase today<\/a>, which is also the anniversary of the band\u2019s 40th year together. Fans worldwide are musically invited to the party, as the band selected 19 of the best of those unforgettable performances for the new record which is available on both CD and vinyl. Also releasing today, the band dropped a live video for \u201cWichita Lineman,\u201d via American Songwriter Magazine<\/a>, a song made famous by Glen Campbell in 1968. In this video, Hot Rize is joined onstage at Boulder Theatre by Sam Bush and Stuart Duncan.Watch here<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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Previously, Relix<\/a> released the video for \u201cColleen Malone,\u201d Wernick commenting that he<\/div>\n
\u201c …learned this touching and lyrical song from the writer himself, Pete Goble, on his bus one day at a festival in the 1980s. The band liked it right away and our version became Song of the Year in 1991. It already seems to have become a standard at bluegrass jam sessions.\u201d And last month, Rolling Stone Country<\/a> debuted the video for \u201cRadio Boogie,\u201d praising the track for \u201c…spotlighting their superb musicianship and camaraderie.\u201d<\/div>\n
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About the new record:<\/div>\n
Over the course of  more than an hour of music on 40th Bash, Hot Rize\u2019s broad appreciation for soulfulness and their conscientious balance between traditional and experimental bluegrass– a Hot Rize hallmark since their inception– are on shining display.  That warm and glistening, award-winning sound unlocked in every song by the lead vocals of Tim O\u2019Brien, complemented step for step in sibling-tight harmony from Forster with Wernick and Sutton joining in; their stringed instrumental prowess featuring flat-pick guitar kingpin, Sutton, is no less impressive.<\/div>\n
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Tracing a line from the band\u2019s 1978 self-titled debut to their most recent release, When I\u2019m Free, this collection of classics, fan favorites, and latest hits touches down on every significant entry on the Hot Rize timeline:  From their signature nod to Bill Monroe with \u201cBlue Night\u201d and their \u201880s chart-topper, \u201cJust Like You,\u201d through the iconic song-of-the-year \u201cColleen Malone\u201d from their IBMA Entertainer of the Year run in 1990, up to several tracks from their latest record, including \u201cWestern Skies.\u201d<\/div>\n
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This release celebrates the many miles traveled together as a band and the many milestones that Hot Rize, together, has achieved– for four decades and counting, on stages across the globe– from the grange hall to the Grand Ole Opry– performances turning into statements of legacy and purpose. For the band, the original goal was to play their music all over, have people like it, and make a living.  And then, at some point, the journey circles back home.<\/div>\n
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\u201cI love the fact that this is not a nostalgia trip,\u201d Forster says.  \u201cIt\u2019s a collaborative enterprise still engaged in ways that resonate for us as artists and for our audience.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Think of this Boulder-based party as a living history; on \u201cHuckling the Berries,\u201d diving back to those four-sets-a-night gigs in biker bars like the Colorado Coal Company, or even deeper for a tender tribute to the late Glen Campbell on \u201cWichita Lineman,\u201d a tune that inspired the band\u2019s beginning.  There is \u201cYou Were On My Mind This Morning\u201d from their latest album, and a few nuggets long associated with Hot Rize, like \u201cRadio Boogie\u201d and \u201c\u201cHigh on a Mountain\u201d. Whether it\u2019s their modern-day standard \u201cNellie Kane,\u201d adopted into the jamband circle by Phish, or covering the East L.A. roots ensemble, Los Lobos, on \u201cBurn It Down,\u201d Hot Rize remains both the vanguard and torch-bearer of the evolving bluegrass story.<\/div>\n
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With measured amounts of old-time consciousness and forward-thinking daring, as in the Celtic-tinged instrumental \u201cThe High Road\u201d or the new-age gospel \u201cYour Light Leads Me On\u201d and \u201cI Am the Road,\u201d the delicate, almost telepathic onstage interplay between the quartet, uniting beautifully as one or equally supporting each solo, shimmers in the spotlight.  Joining the celebration are special guests Sam Bush (mandolin), Jerry Douglas (dobro), and Stuart Duncan (fiddle) on songs hand-picked by the group to showcase their individual and collective virtuosity.<\/div>\n
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\u201cThose are absolutely our top-three favorite instrumentalists as well as our good friends,\u201d says Wernick. \u201cFor them to come to Colorado and join us for the music and celebration was as much as you could hope for.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Bush dazzles on \u201cOut on the Ocean,\u201d while Douglas, owning the distinction of being the sole sideman ever on a Hot Rize studio recording, sets \u201cThings in Life\u201d alight.  And on \u201cAngelina Baker\u201d there is Duncan whose masterful fiddle-flames smolder and singe.<\/div>\n
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For the recording and production of the 40th Bash, the group utilized the experienced crew of Forster’s long-running syndicated eTown radio show<\/a>; one of those critical outside pursuits– like O\u2019Brien\u2019s Grammy winning solo work and songwriting, Sutton\u2019s online instruction and session wizardry, or Wernick\u2019s decades of music camps and development of the Wernick Method– that have sustained the band members\u2019 ongoing individual creative careers.  Yet within Hot Rize there has been a perpetual passion and investment spread equally among the four. It\u2019s an elastic and a glue, allowing the sojourns outside the core to pay dividends in return; always with a home to make incredible music together. \u201cEveryone in this band has worked seriously hard to make Hot Rize shine,\u201d declares Wernick.<\/div>\n
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Naturally, then, it\u2019s on the Boulder stage for three nights in January of 2018, to a sold-out crowd, that these four musicians and these 40 years unite as one; to not only honor each\u2019s contributions, and of course those two decades with their guitarist, the late Charles Sawtelle, but also to further this amazing journey.  With respect for the past, gratitude for the present, and ambition for the future, Wernick, the band\u2019s founder, fittingly sums it up. \u201cIt\u2019s a really deep feeling of fulfillment when the thing you love smiles back at you.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Releasing via Ten in Hand Records and distributed through The Orchard, Hot Rize 40th Anniversary Bash is now available<\/a> on CD and vinyl (double LP). On July 12th, the band rocked the Ryman Auditorium for their Nashville CD release show, as part of the Bluegrass Nights at the Ryman<\/a> series. Sierra Hull and Justin Moses opened. Special guests included Stuart Duncan and Gillian Welch. Last month, the band recorded a session with SiriusXM\u2019s Bluegrass Junction which includes live performances of many of the tracks on the new release, plus insightful interviews intermixed. Visithttps:\/\/www.siriusxm.com\/bluegrassjunction<\/a> for rebroadcast information.<\/div>\n
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For more information on the band or to purchase the new release, please visit https:\/\/www.hotrize.com\/<\/a>. For tour dates and festival appearances, please click here<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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Tour dates:<\/div>\n
Aug. 31 – Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival – New Castle, DE<\/div>\n
Sept. 1 – Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival – Brunswick, ME<\/div>\n
Sept. 2 – Rhythm and Roots Festival – Charlestown, RI<\/div>\n
Nov. 2 – The Sheldon Concert Hall and Art Galleries – St. Louis, MO<\/div>\n
Nov. 4 – The Caverns – Pelham, TN<\/div>\n
Nov. 9 – Peoples Bank Theatre – Marietta, OH<\/div>\n
Nov. 11 – Kent Stage – Kent, OH<\/div>\n
Nov. 16 – City Winery – New York, NY<\/div>\n
+ more to be soon added<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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