He eventually moved to Boulder, Colorado, where he met the late guitarist Charles Sawtelle, banjoist Pete Wernick and bassist/vocalist Nick Forster, with whom he formed Hot Rize in 1978. I know 200 songs now, and I figure if I keep learning more I should be all right."
He wrote to his mother at the time, saying, "I'm heading west. In 1973, he dropped out of college to pursue music professionally. As a boy he had his ears wide open to the Country and Bluegrass on the local WWVA show, as well as the Beatles on the radio. He taught himself to play guitar, fiddle and mandolin. At the age of 12, he heard a Bob Dylan record and decided to take up music as a career. Tim O'Brien was born on Maand raised in Wheeling, West Virginia. He told me, ‘I play a song the first time for the audience, if that doesn’t catch them, I play another for them, then after that, every song is for the band.” You know he was known for Pop music for a little while, then Bluegrass, then it was realized that he could do it all. “He looked like a leprechaun, dancing and playing. We met and became friends.” Tim said John had the uncanny ability to connect with the audience. “John, a Scruggs fan, heard about this band called Hot Rize. Tim performed at the very first John Hartford Memorial Festival, and we are tickled to have him back, with Hot Rize and Red Knuckles and the Trailblazers. Tim met John Hartford when his band, Hot Rize, also a legendary icon in Bluegrass Music, was in Nashville. Why? Well, he’s been changing and improving the way folks perceive folk music for most of his life, just a little longer than I’ve been on this slow moving spaceship we call Earth. Tim O’Brien, to me, is a living legend in acoustic music. “A festival in John’s honor reminds us that he changed everything.” Tim O’Brien told this to me a little while back, concerning the John Hartford Memorial Festival.
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