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Tim O'Brien Discography
Tim O'Brien is an American country and bluegrass musician. In addition to his 22 solo albums and his recordings with Hot Rize, he has been featured as a performer on many albums by other artists. Albums Singles As a member of Hot Rize * 1979: ''Hot Rize'' (Flying Fish) * 1981: ''Radio Boogie'' (Flying Fish) * 1986: '' Traditional Ties'' (Sugar Hill) * 1987: '' Untold Stories'' (Sugar Hill) * 1990: '' Take It Home'' (Sugar Hill) * 2002: ''So Long Of A Journey (Live At The Boulder Theater)'' (Sugar Hill) * 2014: ''When I'm Free'' (Ten In Hand) As a member of Red Knuckles and the Trailblazers * 1982: ''Hot Rize Presents Red Knuckles & The Trailblazers'' (Flying Fish) * 1984: ''Honky Tonk Swing Music'' (Ada Production) * 1984: ''In Concert'' (Flying Fish) * 1988: ''Shades of the Past'' (Sugar Hill) As a member of NewGrange * 1999: ''NewGrange'' (Compass) * 2005: ''A Christmas Heritage'' (Compass) As a member of The Earls of Leicester * 2014: ''The Earls Of Leicester'' (Rou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim O'Brien (musician)
Tim O'Brien (born March 16, 1954) is an American country and bluegrass musician. In addition to singing, he plays guitar, fiddle, mandolin, banjo, bouzouki and mandocello. 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 was inducted into the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame. Early life Tim O'Brien was born on March 16, 1954 and raised in Wheeling, West Virginia, the youngest in a family of five children. At the age of 12, he first heard a Bob Dylan record, played by his older sister Mollie, afterwards deciding to take up music. Throughout his teens, he taught himself to play guitar, violin, and mandolin. In high school, he and his sister Mollie, a singer, began performing Peter, Paul, and Mary songs as a duo at church and local coffeehouses. Music career Hot Rize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hot Rize (album)
''Hot Rize'' is a debut album by the progressive bluegrass band Hot Rize. Album review at www.allmusic.com/ref> Track listing # Blue Night (David Kirk McGee) 2:23 # Empty Pocket Blues (Clive Parker) 2:20 # Nellie Kane ( Tim O'Brien) 2:58 # High On A Mountain 3:06 # Ain't I Been Good To You 2:21 # Powwow The Indian Boy ( Peter Wernick) 3:06 # Prayer Bells Of Heaven (traditional) 2:57 # This Here Bottle (O'Brien, Wernick) 2:40 # Ninety Nine Years (And One Dark Day) (O'Brien, Wernick) 3:08 # Old Dan Tucker (att. Dan Emmett) 1:20 # Country Boy Rock 'n' Roll 2:06 # Standing In The Need Of Prayer (Rusty Goodman) 2:40 # Durham's Reel 3:07 # Midnight On The Highway (Pete Sully) 2:44 Personnel * Nick Forster - bass, vocals * Tim O'Brien - vocals, mandolin, violin * Pete Wernick Pete Wernick (born February 25, 1946), also known as "Dr. Banjo", is an American musician. He is a five-string banjo player in the bluegrass music scene since the 1960s, founder of the Country Cooking and Hot R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Untold Stories (Kathy Mattea Song)
"Untold Stories" is a song written by Tim O'Brien, and recorded by American country music artist Kathy Mattea. It was released in July 1988 as the third single from the album ''Untasted Honey''. The song reached #4 on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles & Tracks Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine in the United States. This 50-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly by collecting airplay data from Nielsen BDS along with digital sal ... chart. Charts Weekly charts Year-end charts References 1988 singles Kathy Mattea songs Song recordings produced by Allen Reynolds Mercury Records singles 1987 songs {{1987-country-song-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercury Records
Mercury Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group. It had significant success as an independent operation in the 1940s and 1950s. Smash Records and Fontana Records were sub labels of Mercury. In the United States, it is operated through Republic Records; in the United Kingdom and Japan (as Mercury Tokyo in the latter country), it is distributed by EMI Records. Since the separation of Island Records, Motown, Mercury Records, and Def Jam Recordings combining the Island Def Jam Music Group, Mercury Records has been placed under Island Records, although its back catalogue is still owned by the Island Def Jam Music Group (now Island Records). Background Mercury Records was started in Chicago in 1945 and over several decades, saw great success. The success of Mercury has been attributed to the use of alternative marketing techniques to promote records. The conventional method of record promotion used by major labels such as RCA Victor, Decca Records, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Untasted Honey
''Untasted Honey'' is the fourth studio album by American country music artist Kathy Mattea. It was released in 1987 on Mercury Records. The album produced Mattea's first Number One hit on the ''Billboard'' country charts in its lead-off single "Goin' Gone". Following this song was another Number One hit, "Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses", then "Untold Stories" and "Life as We Knew It", both of which reached #4. "The Battle Hymn of Love" was later released as a single from Mattea's 1990 album ''A Collection of Hits''. Like ''Walk the Way the Wind Blows'' before it, this album includes a cut originally found on Nanci Griffith's 1986 album ''The Last of the True Believers'', this time in the track "Goin' Gone". ''Untasted Honey'' was certified gold by the RIAA. Track listing Personnel *Pat Alger – acoustic guitar *Billy Barnes – design, art direction *Matthew Barnes – design *Craig Bickhardt – acoustic guitar, background vocals *Bruce Bouton – pedal steel guitar * Tim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark O'Connor
Mark O'Connor (born August 5, 1961) is an American fiddle player and composer whose music combines bluegrass, country, jazz and classical. A three-time Grammy Award winner, he has won six Country Music Association Musician Of The Year awards and, was a member of three influential musical ensembles; the David Grisman Quintet, The Dregs and Strength in Numbers. O'Connor has released 45 albums, of mostly original music, over a 45-year career. He has recorded and performed mostly his original American Classical music for decades. An expert at traditionally-based fiddle and bluegrass music, he also plays other instruments proficiently, including the violin, guitar and mandolin. He has appeared on 450 albums, composed nine concertos and has put together groundbreaking ensembles. His mentors have included Benny Thomasson who taught O'Connor to fiddle as a teenager, French jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli with whom O'Connor toured as a teenager, and guitarists Chet Atkins, Doc Wat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Wernick
Pete Wernick (born February 25, 1946), also known as "Dr. Banjo", is an American musician. He is a five-string banjo player in the bluegrass music scene since the 1960s, founder of the Country Cooking and Hot Rize bands, Grammy nominee and educator, with several instruction books and videos on banjo and bluegrass, and a network of bluegrass jamming teachers called The Wernick Method. He served from 1986 to 2001 as the first president of the International Bluegrass Music Association. Wernick is also an outspoken atheist and humanist, and at one time led a secular humanist congregation in Boulder, Colorado. Biography Pete Wernick was born in New York City and began playing the banjo at the age of fourteen. He pursued studies at Columbia University, hosting New York City's only bluegrass radio program in the 1960s on WKCR-FM and earning a Ph.D. in sociology, thus the moniker "Dr. Banjo". In 1970 while working at Cornell University, he formed Country Cooking in Ithaca, New York toge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rounder Records
Rounder Records is an independent record label founded in 1970 in Somerville, Massachusetts by Marian Leighton Levy, Ken Irwin, and Bill Nowlin. Focused on American roots music, Rounder's catalogue of more than 3000 titles includes records by Alison Krauss and Union Station, George Thorogood, Tony Rice, and Béla Fleck, in addition to re-releases of seminal albums by artists such as the Carter Family, Jelly Roll Morton, Lead Belly, and Woody Guthrie. "Championing and preserving the music of artists whose music falls outside of the mainstream," Rounder releases have won 54 Grammy Awards representing diverse genres, from bluegrass, folk, reggae, and gospel to pop, rock, Americana, polka and world music. Acquired by Concord in 2010, Rounder is based in Nashville, Tennessee. Beginnings Rounder was founded by Ken Irwin, Bill Nowlin, and Marian Leighton Levy. Nowlin and Irwin first met in 1962 as incoming freshman at Tufts University in the Boston suburb of Medford, Massachusetts. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Earls Of Leicester
The Earls of Leicester is an American bluegrass group, assembled by Jerry Douglas in 2013 to present the music of Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and their band the Foggy Mountain Boys to a contemporary audience. Their eponymous debut album earned a Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album in 2015. The band's name is a play on words: The English city Leicester is pronounced "Lester", the same as Flatt's first name, and Scruggs' first name is "Earl". Members Current * Jerry Douglas - Dobro * Shawn Camp - lead vocals and guitar * Charlie Cushman - banjo and guitars * Johnny Warren - vocals and fiddle * Daniel Kimbro - vocals and bass * Jeff White - mandolin and vocals Former * Tim O'Brien * Barry Bales Barry Turner Bales (born August 23, 1969 in Kingsport, Tennessee, United States) is an American musician best known as the long time bass player and harmony vocalist for Alison Krauss and Union Station. He has been in the band for around 25 years. ... Discography Awards The Earl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Compass Records
Compass Records is an independent record label founded in 1995 by musicians Garry West and Alison Brown that specializes in folk music, folk, bluegrass music, bluegrass, Celtic music, Celtic, jazz, and acoustic music. In 2006, Compass purchased the Green Linnet Records, Green Linnet and Xenophile Records, Xenophile catalogs, and in 2008 the label purchased Mulligan Records. Red House Records, an independent folk and Americana record label founded in 1983 in St. Paul, Minnesota, was purchased by the Compass Records Group in 2017. Roster * Altan (band), Altan * Darol Anger * Russ Barenberg * Bearfoot (American band), Bearfoot * Beoga * Michael Black (musician), Michael Black * Paul Brady * Dale Ann Bradley * Paul Brock * Paul Carrack * Liz Carroll * Beth Nielsen Chapman * The Chapmans * Jeff Coffin * Éamonn Coyne * A. J. Croce * Catie Curtis * Fairport Convention * Kris Drever * Elizabeth and the Catapult * Farmer Not So John * Mike Farris (musician), Mike Farris * Matt Flinner * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Knuckles And The Trailblazers
Hot Rize is a bluegrass band that rose to prominence in the early 1980s. Established in 1978, Hot Rize has appeared on national radio and TV shows, and has toured most of the United States, as well as Japan, Europe and Australia. History Hot Rize started performing January 18, 1978, with Tim O'Brien on mandolin and fiddle, Pete Wernick on banjo, Charles Sawtelle on bass and Mike Scap on guitar. Scap left the band with Nick Forster (electric bass) joining in April, thereby allowing Sawtelle to switch to acoustic guitar. That established the four-man line-up that lasted over 20 years: O'Brien on mandolin, fiddle and lead vocals, Forster on electric bass, harmony vocals, and emcee work, Sawtelle, on guitar and occasional lead vocals, and Wernick as "Dr. Banjo". Their first, self-titled album was recorded in 1979 with follow-up ''Radio Boogie'', released in 1981. The band issued six studio albums before disbanding in 1990. That year they received the first Entertainer of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Take It Home (Hot Rize Album)
''Take It Home'' is the fifth album by the progressive bluegrass band Hot Rize. Album review at www.allmusic.com/ref> Track listing # Colleen Malone (Drumm, Goble) 3:07 # Rocky Road Blues (Monroe) 2:13 # A Voice on the Wind (H. Waller) 3:16 # Bending Blades (O'Brien) 3:19 # Gone Fishing (Wernick) 2:57 # Think of What You've Done (Stanley) 2:24 # Climb the Ladder (Forster) 2:23 # Money to Burn (Hutchison) 3:33 # The Bravest Cowboy (trad.) 2:34 # Lamplighting Time in the Valley (Goodman, Hart, Lyons, Poulton) 3:08 # Where the Wild River Rolls (Amos) 3:56) # The Old Rounder (Wernick) 3:01 # Tenderly Calling (Garrett) 4:42 Personnel * Nick Forster – bass, vocals * Tim O'Brien – vocals, mandolin, violin * Pete Wernick Pete Wernick (born February 25, 1946), also known as "Dr. Banjo", is an American musician. He is a five-string banjo player in the bluegrass music scene since the 1960s, founder of the Country Cooking and Hot Rize bands, Grammy nominee and educato ... – banjo, v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
