''Traditional Ties'' is a third album by the
progressive bluegrass
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band
Hot Rize
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. It was the first Hot Rize album released by
Sugar Hill Records, following the band's earlier releases with
Flying fish records
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Bruce Kaplan, the label's founder, was a native of Chicago and the son of ...
. Critic Thom Owens called the album "arguably their best effort ever".
The song "Walk the Way the Wind Blows", written by Tim O'Brien and included on ''Traditional Ties'', was covered by country music artist
Kathy Mattea
Kathleen Alice Mattea (born June 21, 1959) is an American country music and bluegrass singer. Active since 1984 as a recording artist, she has charted more than 30 singles on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Songs charts, including four that reac ...
. Her recording reached #10 on the ''
Billboard
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'' Top 40 Country listing.
Track listing
# Hard Pressed (O'Brien) 2.36
# If I Should Wander Back Tonight (
Flatt,
Scruggs) 2:38
#
Walk the Way the Wind Blows (O'Brien) 3:38
# Hear Jerusalem Moan (trad.) 2:54
# Frank's Blues (Edmonson, Wernick) 2:37
# John, Lost (trad.) 2:32
# Montana Cowboy (Park) 2:42
# Footsteps So Near (Forster, O'Brien) 4:09
# Leather Britches (trad.) 2:34
#
Working on a Building (trad.) 3:29
#
John Henry
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*John Henry (folklore)
John Henry may also refer to:
People
Artists and entertainers
* John Henry (actor) (1738–1794), Irish and early American actor
*Seán Ó hEinirí (1915–1998), known in English as John ...
(trad.) 1:47
#
Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning
"Keep Your Lamp(s) Trimmed and Burning" is a traditional gospel blues song. It alludes to the Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins, found in the Gospel of Matthew at 25:1-13, and also to a verse in the Gospel of Luke, at 12:35.
The song has ...
(trad.) 2:46
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 educat ...
- banjo, vocals
* Charles Sawtelle - guitar, vocals
References
External links
Official site
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1985 albums
Hot Rize albums