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Bruised feelings would seem to be the norm within the Hot Rize family since the announcement that Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers would be performing at the 2015 RockyGrass festival without the Rizers, as you can see in this newly-released video of Waldo Otto dropping in at Nick Forster's eTown office in Boulder, CO. [jwplayer player="1" mediaid="62196"] [...]
One of the best parts of having Hot Rize back on tour again is tracking the mischief that Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers get into following the Hot Rize boys around on the road. Now, it appears that something is brewing between these bands of brothers. We just received some undercover footage from an unnamed Midwestern [...]
Hot Rize made the Ark in Ann Arbor, Michigan one of the current tour stops where they played to a packed house. About a third of the audience were seeing them for the first time. The rest of us were taking a ride back to our younger days. I saw Hot Rize first in the '80s [...]
Hot Rize has created a music video for the debut single from their upcoming album, When I'm Free, their first in 24 years. This video for Blue Is Falling was shot in Boulder, CO at a benefit concert for victims of the terrible flooding in Colorado last year. Produced by Zack Littlefield, it is interspersed as well [...]
Hot Rize has released a single track from their upcoming reunion album, due sometime this Fall. It's Blue Is Falling, the opening track on the CD whose title has not yet been announced. The single (and the album) features three original members of the band, Tim O'Brien on mandolin, Pete Wernick on banjo, and Nick [...]
Some of the biggest bluegrass fun I remember from the 1980s was watching Hot Rize on stage, often with their alter egos, Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers. You could always depend on some solid bluegrass, a good dose of old old time country, and more than a few belly laughs. The band officially disbanded in 1990, [...]
Here is another DelFest 2014 gallery from Todd Powers, covering Sunday's action on the ground.
Fans of Hot Rize will be delighted to learn that there is a new studio album in the offing. The CD will be the first by the legendary band in 10 years – and the first studio album since the release of Take It Home, released in 1990. Banjo player Pete Wernick gives us the [...]
We'd like to introduce David Smith, who will be providing on-site coverage during the Telluride Bluegrass festival next weekend in Colorado. He will join Jason Lombard who will be photographing the event for us. I’m thrilled to be joining the Bluegrass Today team for the extended weekend of the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, June 20 through 24. [...]
Here are Frank Baker's images from Saturday at the 2013 Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival.
