Hot Rize - Just Like You

[maxntejas]

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.

[barry4821]

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.

[recordingblue]

love this song!

[TheTimothyjtaylor]

Jerry Douglas is omnipresent, to be sure. But this particular incarnation, with the mullet to end all mullets is a particular favorite.

[FogeyePiefoot]

I guess you' ve never heard The Dillards, then.

[4theluvofpete]

We so miss you Charles Sawtelle...guitar genius, 1947-1999. Rest in sweet peace buddy.

[hugebluegrassfan]

I have played this video over and over... I absolutely LOVE it! What a great message too!!

[dale20k]

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.

[pduncan742]

Wow what a gorgous song. Had allmost forgot how good Hotrize was

[deblovesbluegrass]

Wow...what a great song. I so miss Charlie Sawtelle, guitar picker. 1947-1999 rest in peace Charlie.

[GuitarDanJams]

Yep! These guys are my faverites!

[payfriday]

The Banjo messes up the vocal in a couple places, (to loud) the Banjo pickers voice is incredible, he should be doing solo's.

[grasstothebone]

awesome

[Bilco1949]

TO has one of those voices. He barely moves his mouth.  All of this music flies out.

[cnuman]

such a beautiful song

[nmfarlow]

Jerry Douglas is my no. 1 influence on resonator guitar ... I love Rob Ickes and Mike Auldridge too though...

[MrTruckerify]

Hope none of you folks haft to face this in life, be carefull, it could happen to you!

[MitchClarence]

Wow..really enjoying this. Trying to learn Sawtelle's intro..anyone know what 'chord' he's playing after the first measure (?) bass string intro?

[MrBigdaddyOHIO]

check out ottawa county bluegrass do this

[BIGDAD3571]

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[1stCAV1968]

Now, that's what I'm talkin' about! Nuff said!

[ripstaur]

Wow, I didn't know there were still any Knuckleheads left alive!

[strickdan44]

I saw Hot Rize at Bonnaroo this year. They were great.

[jusomeguy]

Looks like an American Music Shop show. EVERYONE's younger, including Jerry

[sparkybluefox]

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!

[twistedmetal511]

i'm definitely throwin rocks at these dudes at bonnaroo, hahahahahahaah

most retarded band i have ever seen

[harness2222]

@twistedmetal511 you can suck a big dick you dumb cunt

[chandelierbriefcase]

@twistedmetal511 why dont you do everyone a favor and take a seat somewhere, take a deap breath, relax, then put a gun to your head and pull the trigger.

[lkicker1]

Absolutely great song. I have a CD with only this song over and over. I listen while I am commuting. I just love it.

[57Telecaster]

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.

[bluegrassman776]

i have been in bluegrass for 12 years i never heard this song and thats a shame its one of the best i ve heard

[n2pickn]

bluegrassman...I've been in bluegrass a long, long time and just discovered this a few weeks ago. It's great ain't it?

[scavengersgreen]

I am a huge TO fan after getting one cd and feel extremely happy to know that there are many more.

[chuxter3455]

Charles and Tony Rice have more in common than a lot of people realize. They were both disciples of Clarence White's style of playing but each interpreted the style differently.

[dcrown7]

hey can anybody post the song late in the day by hot rize

many thanks

[TheJamdolinPlayer]

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.

[atrailmike]

I'm so surprised by the lack of love for Sawtelle in this thread. I'm crazy for bluegrass guitarists and he's in my top 5 for sure. His off kilt timing to his solos was what I liked best about Hot Rize. I think he's one of the greatest guitarists ever. For the record, I don't think there was a weak link in Hot Rize.

[botulizer]

Jerry Douglas is there because Jerry Douglas is EVERYWHERE! :P

[BATENKILL]

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

[Bilco1949]

@botulizer Flux rules!

[terrykinakin]

Had the privilage of having Tim O'Brien on my CD, great guy.

[wwisecarver]

Been listening to HR for over 25 years. Tim has what every great artist has, from Sinatra to Iggy Pop: Restraint. He's like a mix of Bill Monroe and Rick Nelson. I believe Rick Nelson influenced more singers than we know. I'm sure he influenced Dwight Yoakum. Tim's 'Nellie Kane' is one of the best BG songs of all time.

[bgrjabrindo]

Yes very true and also I think,Tim looks like Jerry Lee Lewis when he was young.

[mmmbaconbits]

O'Brien is king of the hill - no doubt but how about a young Nick Forester for one sexy beast! So natural - the boy can't help it!

[scavengersgreen]

great! Couldn't be better.period.

[TBSMandolin]

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?

[tricolorpicks]

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.

[SteveGaines]

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...

[tricolorpicks]

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.

[TruegrassBoy]

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.

[brazilgrass]

What about enjoying the music and forgetting about the silly "who's best" argument?

[dennisndodie]

One of my favorite groups.Charles Sewtelle and Pat Flynn give me a break. Listen to New Grass Revival and Listen to hot rise. Not they sound nothing alike. Sawtelle is more like Larry Sparks and Pat Flynn is in his own nitch.

[danlay]

I always thought Sawtelle was the weak link in HR. While he's not my cup of tea, Pat Flynn was a much better (IMHO) lead guitarist playing somewhat similar music at the same time. O'Brian was always the reason I went to see HR.

[pennyreddog]

Charles Sawtelle was one of a kind! We are all lucky to have ever head or seen him play! Thanks for posting this video!

[StringChessy]

Greatest older bluegrass band. Yonder is the cream of the crop now. I read on jambase that Hot Rize is not fond of Yonder, both are great bands, and i think its time to roll with the change in bluegrass. Check out Cadillac Sky they are awesome, saw them in Telly two weeks ago, so sick. Yonder rules, and i love Hot Rize as much.

[jonstone55]

Isn't Tim responsible for YMSB's crossover into bigs by producing their first release?

[jocwalk]

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.

[nevadabluegrasss]

You're an idiot if you think Charles Sawtelle was "weak". He was an expert. No one can compare.

[jocwalk]

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.

[cosmojh]

Bryan Sutton is a MONSTER! He's so good, he makes me want to give up. Only a couple of guys have ever done that to me, and Sutton is the only one in bluegrass.

[jocwalk]

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 Youtube search) to see some other really great guitarists.

[sfdavidson464]

Tim O'brien colaborates with Yonder. He helped them on Town by Town. So I don't thing there is bad blood. Sawtell was not a weak player. Sawtelle was a great player he just didn't live to see the expansion into modern bluegrass guitar like the guys Joc listed. Only Tony and Doc were in their own league. Oh by the way, Yonder isn't a bluegrass band they are spacegrass.

[jocwalk]

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.

[phriendlyphool]

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"

[dennisndodie]

Hot Rize is a unique band not like Skaggs,Del,Doyle they do the classic Bluegrass sound.While Hot Rize does a City Slicker type of Bluegrass.

[phriendlyphool]

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

[riehldiehl15]

Greatest band of all time and Jerry Douglas looks awesome with a mullet.

[jaredreinert]

hahaha

[lastnickeldrifter]

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.

[bluegrasswoman]

Beautiful song :) I love Hot Rize

[hbensor]

Tim O'Brien and Hot Rize are simply the best. This song is awesome, the way bluegrass should be.

[bamertide]

That's it.

[Mandopete]

Great!

[iBnumber414]

what a great song!!thanks

[walkngdude]

Fantastic group, notice they use three men on a mic like the old timey groups did. I really loved these guys and red knuckles band was even better!!

[constatty]

Great video. Great song. Who is the dobro player? Kinda looks like a younger Jerry Douglas.

[BluegrassLibrary]

It is Jerry Douglas.

[timswailes]

Fantastic song, Love both Hot Rize and Red Knuckles. This song has a very good message!!!

[bluegrassguy33]

Pete Wernick wrote this song.... he's one of the most underrated songwriters out there... BEAUTIFUL song!

[dudehorner]

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?

[BluegrassLibrary]

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.

[conatpoint]

Love this song, as sad as they come.

[derby45]

sawtelle is missed.