Hot Rize Presents Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers (1982) / Hot Rize in Concert (1984)

Hot Rize/Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers

Hot Rize Presents Red Knuckles the Trailblazers 19
  • CAT # 18964-0107-2

    1. Travelin' Blues
    2. Honky Tonk Man
    3. Slade's Theme
    4. Dixie Cannonball 2:33
    5. I Know My Baby Loves Me
    6. Trailblazer Theme
    7. Always Late
    8. Honky Tonk Song
    9. Kansas City Star
    10. Waldo's Discount Donuts
    11. Boot Heel Drag
    12. The Window Up Above
    13. You're Gonna Change Or I'm Gonna Leave
    14. Long Gone John From Bowling Green
    15. Introduction
    16. Let Me Love You One More Time
    17. Goin' Across The Sea
    18. My Little Darlin'
    19. I've Been All Around This World
    20. I'm Gonna Sleep With One Eye Open
    21. Martha White Theme
    22. Sally Goodin
    23. Your Light Leads Me On
    24. The Sugarfoot Rag
    25. Introduction of Red Knuckless & the Trailblazers by Pete Wernick
    26. Texas Hambone Blues
    27. Wendell's Fly Swatters
    28. Oh, Mona
    29. Rank Strangers 3:04
    30. Shady Grove

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This CD contains two complete albums: Hot Rize Presents Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers (Flying Fish 279), recorded live in Niwot, Colorado in 1982, and Hot Rize in Concert (Flying Fish 315), recorded in 1984. This Colorado-based band is comprised of first-rate musicians steeped in the tradition -- letter-perfect pickin' and strong, pile-driving bluegrass harmonies -- but with a few contemporary notions of their own! Hot Rize features the lead vocals, mandolin and fiddle of Tim O'Brien; Pete Wernick, banjo, electric guitar and harmony vocals; Charles Sawtelle, guitar and tenor vocals, and Nick Forster, bass and harmony vocals. Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers consists of Red on lead vocals and flat-top guitar; Wendell Mercantile, electric guitar; Waldo Otto on steel guitar, and Slade on bass.

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