I saw HR (and Red Knuckles and the Trailblazers 😁) many times back in the 80s and 90s, and then the last one with Charles in March of '96. A great loss, but O what a time it was then. The finest live music I've ever had the pleasure hearing.
Our band is covering this song. We always get so many people asking who wrote it and telling us that they "love it, but it's so sad." This is definitely one of my favorite Hot Rize tunes.
This is one of my favorite songs ever. It's hard to imagine anyone could have so much insight at such a young age. I saw Hot Rize several times and always enjoyed them Red Knuckles was lots of fun, but Hot Rize was who I came to see. I believe without Hot Rize, bluegrass wouldn't have evolved to the point it has today. What an incredible writer & singer Tim Obrien is. Charles Sawtelle wasn't flashy but he was one of the most tasteful guitar players I've ever seen.
i saw this group at emma jos in austin texas in 1983 and was really impressed I especially like the guitar player charles sawtelle. good songs. and very bluegrass.
They are still this good! We saw them a few weeks ago here in Boulder, on their reunion tour. Their new guitarist (who replaced the late Charles Sawtelle) fits right in. And this song still causes me to get misty eyed...
Charles Sawtelle's music meant a great deal to many people, especially acoustic guitarists, who recognized his powerful, spare, unique style of playing. I never met him but saw him play at WVA several times. He was a guitarist's guitarist, and this album, before his untimely death, is in the same league as 1973'a "Will the Circle Be Unbroken".
One of my favorite bands. What an awesome sounding guitar too a 1937 D-28 and notice the guitar on the stand behind Charles Sewtelle, it is a shaded top 1936 D-18.
This is just 100% pure pot-stilled magic....thankyou for posting this gem....was lucky to catch Hot Rize + Red Knuckles ! in '89 @ Edale....great memories....killer outfit....RIP Chaz Sawtelle...check out his cd....music from rancho deville......superb.
Guitarists admired Sawtelle's style. I mean, really good guitarists. Just something so damn good about the way he played. "Music from Rancho DeVille" is a magnum opus. And everyone is on it too.
He is like that guy on the beer comerical, He's everwhere you want to be, he is the MOST interesting man in the world, he once had an awkward moment to see how it felt!! He is Jerry 'Flux" Douglas
I wasn't trying to compare those bands with Hot Rize...it was in response to someone who said Yonder is "the cream of the crop" now days...I just threw a few names out there that I think are much better
Meadow green park jubilee road done this song clay city ky, billy paul kizer Glenville townsend lovell stevens ,greg wilson ,megan wilson, and clayton hawkins ,they did a great job that knight,
I believe that guitar is a D-18..Notice NO BINDING around the edge...The Herringbones had binding around the edge...that looks more like a D-18 to me...
Bryan Sutton is really good but I think guys like Josh Williams and Cody Kilby are right there with him. Check out Black Mountain Rag (jam) (through TH-cam search) to see some other really great guitarists.
Ummm. Why is Jerry Douglas up there? and I think its funny that Pete Wernick is a Better singer than my dad. He actually sounds ike he'd have a good singing voice. am I right?
Think what you want but he wasn't in the same league as guys like Tony Rice, Doc Watson, Norman Blake, Brian Sutton, Cody Kilby, Tim Stafford, Kenny Smith, David Grier, Josh Williams, Clay Jones, and a host of other guitarists. No one can compare? You must not have listened to the guys I listed if that's what you think but to each his own. Even on this clip, he's playing George Shuffler's down, down, up cross-picking style from the 1950's only not as well as Shuffler. Good band though.
TO is an amazing player..........but man can he sing. Some dudes have this soulful timbre in their voice........Keith Whitley being a prime example. Tim O. has it. Young Tony Rice too.
Sawtelle is one of my favorites, ya there are better players but his licks were tasteful and not overdone, every note he played counted and there wasnt a need for extras. Just listen to his tone and spacing in his licks.
damn straight -- it ain't the notes but the silence / spaces between that counts. How many guitarists do that descending turnaround fiddle run (check out what he does at the coda -- the end of the last line before the "tag")
while I thank Yonder for helping me get into bluegrass in my opinion they are not the "cream of the crop"...bands like The Del McCoury Band, Ricky Skaggs, Doyle Lawson, and countless others really I would put ahead of Yonder but to each his own I guess...I'm just more a fan of traditional bluegrass...and also the last time I saw Yonder live it was a complete joke after being at Merlefest and seeing some of the true "cream of the the crop"
What about Norman Blake and Clarence White, both of whom were well known before Sawtelle? There were others as well. My point is that for some here to say "no one can compare" to Sawtelle, even for the time, is just silly. As a band, they were good but Sawtelle was an average guitarist. As for Sawtelle not living to see the change in bluegrass guitar, that's not true at all. He judged at Winfield when a friend of mine won it his first time.
Great vocals. Where did all these good bands go? Now we mostly got a bunch of liberal wimps playing jazzgrass, wimpgrass and pansygrass.Having said that - FYI, check out "The Out Of Town Boys" who are still out there playin' it right.
Charles was so musical and soulful. Tim drives me up the wall. I cannot listen to his singing, there's something false in there, something contrived. Rest of the guys rock.
Hot Rize was good although Sawtelle was pretty weak on the guitar. O'Brien is very talented as is Wernick. I have to say, I really don't like Yonder Mountain. They are yet another of the bluegrass wannabes. When a bluegrass band lists Ozzy Osbourne and Frank Zappa among their influences, that tells me a lot. I hate it when bands think that if they just throw in a banjo, they're now a "bluegrass" band.
I heard him say he likes to keep his whole mouth, jaw and vocal cords as loose as possible while he's singing. If you notice, he always switches to the high harmony for the chorus while Nick takes over the melody in most of their songs.
OMG! This is such a soulful tune; i love it! And so good to see Slade!!! Miss you, buddy!
Charles Sawtelle kick off still kicks ass everytime I listen to this!! KILLER band!
"you won't always be young.."
Saw them in the 80s, 90s, dang, we're all getting older.
I saw HR (and Red Knuckles and the Trailblazers 😁) many times back in the 80s and 90s, and then the last one with Charles in March of '96. A great loss, but O what a time it was then. The finest live music I've ever had the pleasure hearing.
Greatest band of all time and Jerry Douglas looks awesome with a mullet.
Tim O'Brien is the best.Love his voice and his amazing talent!!!This group is so good!
Will take a long time for the chillbumps to go away.
Them words chill ya to the bone
Our band is covering this song. We always get so many people asking who wrote it and telling us that they "love it, but it's so sad." This is definitely one of my favorite Hot Rize tunes.
Pete Wernick wrote this
Rick Dauer Yeah I'm aware.
Great song....Great group Hot Rize. Love Tim O’Brien
What a song ; saw Tim with Darrell Scott at Grey Fox in 2000. Rode 6000 miles to get there. RIP Charles, wonderful guitar you played.
This is one of my favorite songs ever. It's hard to imagine anyone could have so much insight at such a young age. I saw Hot Rize several times and always enjoyed them Red Knuckles was lots of fun, but Hot Rize was who I came to see. I believe without Hot Rize, bluegrass wouldn't have evolved to the point it has today. What an incredible writer & singer Tim Obrien is. Charles Sawtelle wasn't flashy but he was one of the most tasteful guitar players I've ever seen.
Amazing song, amazing vocals
It’s a great song though, Pete Wernick, the banjo player wrote it
Saw them early eighties.....at their very best.
are you kidding? This is priceless! Good on us, who have had the experience
Time moves only one way,you won't always be young.Great song.R.I.P.Charles Sawtelle.
tippimail1 Yes rise ....in your prime
I remember seeing them several times in the 80's they were one of my favorite bands and I hope to get to see them again.
How good were these guys?I had forgotten all about this great song.A young Jerry Douglas sitting in on Dobro.
I have played this video over and over... I absolutely LOVE it! What a great message too!!
I'll say. I'm 69.....😮
i saw this group at emma jos in austin texas in 1983 and was really impressed I especially like the guitar player charles sawtelle. good songs. and very bluegrass.
They are still this good! We saw them a few weeks ago here in Boulder, on their reunion tour. Their new guitarist (who replaced the late Charles Sawtelle) fits right in. And this song still causes me to get misty eyed...
Love this song ,,,this group and Tim O’Brien
I saw Hot Rize at Bonnaroo this year. They were great.
Tim O'Brien and Hot Rize are simply the best. This song is awesome, the way bluegrass should be.
beautiful, thoughtful song - Tim's the real thing.
Great to see Charles sawtelle..great guitarplayer.rj
Charles Sawtelle's music meant a great deal to many people, especially acoustic guitarists, who recognized his powerful, spare, unique style of playing. I never met him but saw him play at WVA several times. He was a guitarist's guitarist, and this album, before his untimely death, is in the same league as 1973'a "Will the Circle Be Unbroken".
Unique and inspired.
Great song, best vocal harmony. RIP Charles Sawtelle.
Wow what a gorgous song. Had allmost forgot how good Hotrize was
pure bluegrass gold!
One of my favorite bands. What an awesome sounding guitar too a 1937 D-28 and notice the guitar on the stand behind Charles Sewtelle, it is a shaded top 1936 D-18.
charles sawtelle looking fresh with his bolo & shiny shirt
This is the best bluegrass ever put down on this earth
Love this song, as sad as they come.
this is one of the best bluegrass groups out there!
This is just 100% pure pot-stilled magic....thankyou for posting this gem....was lucky to catch Hot Rize + Red Knuckles ! in
'89 @ Edale....great memories....killer outfit....RIP Chaz Sawtelle...check out his cd....music from rancho deville......superb.
Yep! These guys are my faverites!
I saw these guys for the 1st time in Aurora Colorado in 1981 ( I believe), it was Love at first site. And still is.
Big Mon is smiling every time someone plays a Tim O'Brien song in any format.
Thank you for hosting this song! I love Hot Rize and I love this song!
( tear's are a measure of value) I value this video alot!
For some reason, is feeling nostalgic
love this song!
Perfection.
just Super Talent Thanks Great Music Too
When bluegrass could be slow ..and heartfelt ♡♡♡ He's just like you
Love this song and guitar player. Very heartfelt bluegrass
such a beautiful song
Thanks for correcting me Steve, you are exactly right, that is a D-18. He did play a '37 D-28 too. Sawtelle had some nice guitars.
Crazy good!
bluegrassman...I've been in bluegrass a long, long time and just discovered this a few weeks ago. It's great ain't it?
Jerry Douglas is omnipresent, to be sure. But this particular incarnation, with the mullet to end all mullets is a particular favorite.
Lord Jeezus what a pretty song.. DCDM Dixie cup Drinking music
god ripcharles sawtell . kind man
Great song! Hey, if anyone has a clip of these guys doing Ninety Nine Years, please put it up - I love their version of that song.
Rare and hard to find!
had the pleasure to see thrm liive nned i say more
And the mulleted Jerry "Flux" Douglas guesting on Dobro.
That is a strong mullet!
Maybe it's just me, but I wouldn't mind seeing the mullet make a come-back.
Literally the best mullet ever! LOL
LOL!!!!!!!
awesome
♡♡♡ great
great
How long ago? We were all so much younger….
We're still so much younger¡
Wow, what a nice suprise to find and hear this once again - tysvm. You wouldnt happen to have any old red knuckles laying around you could share?
There are some fancier pickers these days, but to my ear, nobody was as tasteful and soulful as the Great Charles Sawtelle...Just sayin'!
Spot on there.
Guitarists admired Sawtelle's style. I mean, really good guitarists. Just something so damn good about the way he played. "Music from Rancho DeVille" is a magnum opus. And everyone is on it too.
No, I don't. But Hot Rize recently released a DVD of a show recorded in the 1980s on which Red Knuckles & the Trail Blazers are featured.
God damn, forgot how beautiful this sound was
It is Jerry Douglas.
Jerry Douglas is there because Jerry Douglas is EVERYWHERE! :P
Got some thinkin’ to do.
He is like that guy on the beer comerical, He's everwhere you want to be, he is the MOST interesting man in the world, he once had an awkward moment to see how it felt!! He is Jerry 'Flux" Douglas
I wasn't trying to compare those bands with Hot Rize...it was in response to someone who said Yonder is "the cream of the crop" now days...I just threw a few names out there that I think are much better
Meadow green park jubilee road done this song clay city ky, billy paul kizer Glenville townsend lovell stevens ,greg wilson ,megan wilson, and clayton hawkins ,they did a great job that knight,
SLADE!
Great video. Great song. Who is the dobro player? Kinda looks like a younger Jerry Douglas.
i meet them all at la baron san jose, sad charles had bone marrow diseasea, kindsoul.
Yes very true and also I think,Tim looks like Jerry Lee Lewis when he was young.
That's it.
I believe that guitar is a D-18..Notice NO BINDING around the edge...The Herringbones had binding around the edge...that looks more like a D-18 to me...
Isn't Tim responsible for YMSB's crossover into bigs by producing their first release?
Hey man can I have a rip in the chat for his wife
Dead right there !!
quelqu uns à t ils des images de Toulouse/France..blugras/festival ???198...,merci...Nice.
Hope none of you folks haft to face this in life, be carefull, it could happen to you!
Bryan Sutton is really good but I think guys like Josh Williams and Cody Kilby are right there with him. Check out Black Mountain Rag (jam) (through TH-cam search) to see some other really great guitarists.
Looks like an American Music Shop show. EVERYONE's younger, including Jerry
Ummm. Why is Jerry Douglas up there?
and I think its funny that Pete Wernick is a Better singer than my dad. He actually sounds ike he'd have a good singing voice. am I right?
Think what you want but he wasn't in the same league as guys like Tony Rice, Doc Watson, Norman Blake, Brian Sutton, Cody Kilby, Tim Stafford, Kenny Smith, David Grier, Josh Williams, Clay Jones, and a host of other guitarists. No one can compare? You must not have listened to the guys I listed if that's what you think but to each his own. Even on this clip, he's playing George Shuffler's down, down, up cross-picking style from the 1950's only not as well as Shuffler. Good band though.
TO is an amazing player..........but man can he sing. Some dudes have this soulful timbre in their voice........Keith Whitley being a prime example.
Tim O. has it. Young Tony Rice too.
Great grouping!. Tim O, Keith Whitley and Tony Rice...Gene Watson, too!
Sawtelle is one of my favorites, ya there are better players but his licks were tasteful and not overdone, every note he played counted and there wasnt a need for extras. Just listen to his tone and spacing in his licks.
damn straight -- it ain't the notes but the silence / spaces between that counts. How many guitarists do that descending turnaround fiddle run (check out what he does at the coda -- the end of the last line before the "tag")
22 dis-likes!? Idiocracy !!!!!
Pas un mot sur la présence de Brian Sutton??
while I thank Yonder for helping me get into bluegrass in my opinion they are not the "cream of the crop"...bands like The Del McCoury Band, Ricky Skaggs, Doyle Lawson, and countless others really I would put ahead of Yonder but to each his own I guess...I'm just more a fan of traditional bluegrass...and also the last time I saw Yonder live it was a complete joke after being at Merlefest and seeing some of the true "cream of the the crop"
What about Norman Blake and Clarence White, both of whom were well known before Sawtelle? There were others as well. My point is that for some here to say "no one can compare" to Sawtelle, even for the time, is just silly. As a band, they were good but Sawtelle was an average guitarist. As for Sawtelle not living to see the change in bluegrass guitar, that's not true at all. He judged at Winfield when a friend of mine won it his first time.
What about enjoying the music and forgetting about the silly "who's best" argument?
Great vocals. Where did all these good bands go? Now we mostly got a bunch of liberal wimps playing jazzgrass, wimpgrass and pansygrass.Having said that - FYI, check out "The Out Of Town Boys" who are still out there playin' it right.
Hot rize is the shit
Charles was so musical and soulful. Tim drives me up the wall. I cannot listen to his singing, there's something false in there, something contrived. Rest of the guys rock.
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Hot Rize was good although Sawtelle was pretty weak on the guitar. O'Brien is very talented as is Wernick. I have to say, I really don't like Yonder Mountain. They are yet another of the bluegrass wannabes. When a bluegrass band lists Ozzy Osbourne and Frank Zappa among their influences, that tells me a lot. I hate it when bands think that if they just throw in a banjo, they're now a "bluegrass" band.
Tim looks so disinterested. Pretty funny.
Tim always looks bored. LOL
I heard him say he likes to keep his whole mouth, jaw and vocal cords as loose as possible while he's singing. If you notice, he always switches to the high harmony for the chorus while Nick takes over the melody in most of their songs.