Hot Rize - Colorado Music Experience

Bringing respect for tradition and progressive elements to the bluegrass genre, the eclectic Colorado band went on to a long and storied career.
Named after the secret leavening ingredient in Martha White Self-Rising Flour-a longtime sponsor of bluegrass music-Hot Rize debuted in 1978. Balancing innovation with reverence for the roots of bluegrass, the four members gained renown for a stage show featuring their ill-concealed Western Swing alter egos, Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers, who lovingly parodied ’50s country music. Hot Rize enhanced its legacy in Americana music by embarking on several world tours, winning the first-ever International Bluegrass Music Association award for Entertainer of the Year and receiving 4-star album reviews in Rolling Stone.

[@johngolden4468]

Love Hot Rize! I also love that band that lived in the back of their bus!

[@aislingbooks]

I remember Hot Rize gigs back in the '80s, when all us locals would sit on hay bales with our kids and listen to them play at the Grange Hall in Niwot, Colorado. Their counterparts, Red Knuckles and the Trailblazers were hilarious.

[@RockReynolds]

I discovered Hot Rize, thanks to the late 80's remake of the movie, "The Blob". No kiddin'.
--- Early in the movie, the Sheriff enters a Diner, there's a song on the Radio, and someone asks if they like "Country Music".
--- I really liked the song on the Radio, which turned out to be Keith Whitley's, "You Don't Have to Move that Mountain", performed by Hot Rize.
--- I stayed to watch the Credits at the end of the Movie, to see who the band was. That was my introduction to Hot Rize, and I bought my first Hot Rize CD soon afterwards.

[@nc9831]

Loved seeing them at the Niwot Grange back in the day.

[@bluelane]

Big ups. Seventh Circle Music Collective next?

[@digitalporch2062]

Have you considered a story on Randy Van Warmer? from Indian Hills Colorado, he had a hit with Just When I Needed You Most in 1979.