Hot Rize
First Annual Minnesota Bluegrass Festival, People's Center
Minneapolis, MN  
May 19-21, 1978

Transfer: by Keith Kreider 04/11/07 - Source Info: spps-anon1C263 - Transfer by Keith Kreider 04/11/07 - Maxell LN 90:Nakamichi ZX7>Nickspicks Silver 
Hydra's>Lunatec V3 @ 24/48>M-Audio Firewire 410

1. Deep Elem Blues
2. Ninety Nine Years (and One Dark Day)
3. Powwow The Indian Boy
4. Martha White Theme
5. Ashes of Love
6. Leather Britches...(Band Intros)
7. Gonna Paint This Town
8. High on a Mountain
9. Shady Grove
10. Baby Blue Eyes
11. Prayer Bells of Heaven
12. Durham's Reel
13. Blue Night

1. Walkin' the Dog
2. Plain and Fancy/Cindy
3. Billy in the Lowground
4. Life's Too Short
5. Live and Let Live
6. Flop-Eared Mule
7. Train 45

Notes: Listed as "Hot Rize, 1978-May-19,20,21, First Minnesota Bluegrass Festival"
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Anonymous Collection Cassette #263 features the earliest circulating tape of a Hot Rize 
performance I've seen...the band is captured at the First Annual Minnesota Bluegrass 
Festival, People's Center, Minneapolis, MN, May 19-21, 1978, during their first year of 
existence.  One can hear the band developing their stage presence and unique personas-Tim 
O'Brien, Pete Wernick, Nick Forster, and Charles Sawtelle refer to themselves as Howdy 
Skies, Wyoming Dave, Delbert McCumbers, and Buddy Storm, rather than their Red Knuckles & 
The Trailblazers nicknames they came up with later-Red Knuckles, Waldo Otto, Wendell 
Mercantile, and Slade.  This tape is a real gem; show one has better fidelity than show 
two, but you won't care if you're a Hot Rize fan.

--Mitchell Wittenberg
