Name: So Long of a Journey: Live at the Bouder Theater
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So Long of a Journey

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Album: So Long of a Journey: Live at the Bouder Theater
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Blue Night
2)	Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning
3)	Empty Pocket Blues
4)	Introductions
5)	Radio Boogie
6)	Just Like You
7)	Climbing up a Mountain
8)	Walkin' the Dog
9)	Frank's Blues
10)	Voice on the Wind, A
11)	Shadows in My Room
12)	Nellie Kane
13)	Butcher's Dog, The
14)	Working on a Building
15)	Walk the Way the Wind Blows
16)	Foggy Mt. Breakdown
17)	High on a Mountain
18)	Colleen Malone
19)	Life's Too Short
20)	Won't You Come and Sing for Me
21)	[Untitled] - (hidden track)

Album: So Long of a Journey: Live at the Bouder Theater
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Blue Night
2)	Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning
3)	Empty Pocket Blues
4)	Introductions
5)	Radio Boogie
6)	Just Like You
7)	Climbing up a Mountain
8)	Walkin' the Dog
9)	Frank's Blues
10)	Voice on the Wind, A
11)	Shadows in My Room
12)	Nellie Kane
13)	Butcher's Dog, The
14)	Working on a Building
15)	Walk the Way the Wind Blows
16)	Foggy Mt. Breakdown
17)	High on a Mountain
18)	Colleen Malone
19)	Life's Too Short
20)	Won't You Come and Sing for Me
21)	[Untitled] - (hidden track)

Performer Notes

Hot Rize: Tim O'Brien (vocals, mandolin, fiddle); Nick Forster (vocals, bass); Charles Sawtelle (guitar, background vocals); Pete Wernick (banjo, background vocals).
Recorded live at The Boulder Theatre in Boulder, Colorado on March 6 & 7, 1996.
Personnel: Charles Sawtelle (vocals, guitar); Pete Wernick (vocals, banjo); Tim O'Brien (vocals, mandolin, fiddle); Nick Forster (vocals).
Audio Mixer: Kevin Clock.
Liner Note Authors: Nick Forster; Pete Wernick; Tim O'Brien.
Recording information: Live At the Boulder Theater, Boulder, CO (03/06/1996/03/07/1996).
Editors: Bob Burnham; David Glasser.
Photographer: Steve "Clean" Stone.
Arrangers: Hot Rize; Tim O'Brien.
A live show by Hot Rize was always something to get excited about, especially the part of the show where the traditional bluegrass quartet morphed into their humorous alter egos, Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers. This disc, recorded live in 1996, is also something to get excited about, even though Red and his boys never show up. Instead, Hot Rize stayed in their suits and baked a tasty set of bluegrass biscuits. Tim O'Brien, Nick Forster, Charles Sawtelle, and Pete Wernick were all perfectly competent players, but their songs set them apart from their peers. In addition to great covers such as longtime favorites "High on a Mountain" and "Radio Boogie," the foursome displayed their strength as writers. Wernick's "Just Like You" is one of the set's highlights, with strong vocal harmonies, though Wernick's banjo often sounds as if it's going through some type of effect pedal. Forster's "Shadows in My Room" is another strong performance, particularly from O'Brien's lead vocal. The band performs one tune by guitarist Sawtelle, an instrumental called "The Butcher's Dog," where his picking is more straight-ahead and less idiosyncratic than his soloing on other songs. The band also performs three songs by frontman O'Brien, whose banter between songs shows how casual Hot Rize was, especially in front of their hometown crowd in Boulder, CO. So casual, in fact, that they asked for and honored a request from the audience, a quick run-though of "Foggy Mountain Breakdown." Also so casual that at the end of the show O'Brien remarks, "Oh, you're still here? We just came back to get our stuff." ~ Scott Cooper