Hot Buttered Rum (band)

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Hot Buttered Rum
Also known asHot Buttered Rum String Band
Origin San Francisco Bay Area
Genres Folk, Progressive Bluegrass, Rock
Years active2002–present
LabelsSelf-released, Harmonized
MembersBryan Horne
Erik Yates
Nat Keefe
Jeff Coleman
James Stafford
Ben Andrews
Past membersAaron Redner
Lucas Carlton
Ian Waight
Zachary Matthews
Matt Butler
Rob Hooper
Shane Schlick
Zebulon Bowles
Website http://www.hotbutteredrum.net

Hot Buttered Rum (also known as Hot Buttered Rum String Band and HBRSB) is an American five-piece progressive bluegrass act based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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The group performs frequently at music festivals, including the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Newport Folk Festival, South by Southwest, High Sierra Music Festival, Bonnaroo Music Festival, Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival, and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival. [1] [2] [3] They have also headlined The Fillmore in their home city of San Francisco and have performed with a wide array of artists, including Phil Lesh, Ben Harper, Chris Thile, Bela Fleck, Peter Rowan, and Bill Nershi. [4] [5]

Their song "Right Between Your Eyes" gained national prominence when it was selected to serve as the theme music for the TV show, "Cook's Country from America's Test Kitchen" during seasons one through 11.

Discography

(recorded live at Berkeley's premier listening venue The Freight and Salvage)
  1. Backrooms of My Mind
  2. Elephant Hunting Song
  3. Red-Haired Boy
  4. String's Breath
  5. The Trial of John Walker Lindh
  6. Norwegian Wood
  7. Warm Up
  8. Naked Blue
  9. Red Clay Halo
  10. The Crest
(HBR's first studio effort recorded in the hills of Fairfax, California)
  1. Three Point Two
  2. Flask, Alas!
  3. Evolution
  4. Old Dangerfield
  5. I've Let Go
  6. Lighten Up Your Load
  7. Horseshoe
  8. Reckless Tex
  9. Immaculate Rain
  10. In These Parts
  1. Firefly
  2. Guns or Butter
  3. Idaho Pines
  4. Poison Oak
  5. Waterpocket Fold
  6. Always Be the Moon
  7. Well-Oiled Machine
  8. Waiting for a Squall
  9. Butch & Peggy
  10. Sweet Honey Fountain
  11. Wedding Day
  1. Busted in Utah
  2. Limbo in Lovelock
  3. Desert Rat
  4. Return Someday
  5. Cumberland Blues
  6. Metrosexual
  7. Summertime Gal
  8. California Snow & Rain
  9. Spider
  10. Queen Elizabeth
  11. Honey Be
  12. You Make Me Feel Like Dancing
  1. Two Loose Cannons
  2. Something New
  3. Beneath the Blossoms
  4. A Great Many Things
  5. Brokedown
  6. Sexy Bakery Girl
  7. Queen Elizabeth
  8. Turning the Wheel
  9. Honkytonk Tequila
  10. Summertime Gal
  11. Limbs Akimbo
  1. Fruit of the Vine
  2. Squall
  3. Way Back When
  4. Blue Moon Stars
  5. Banished Set
  6. Beyond the Sky
  7. Ramblin' Girl
  8. Be Kind Boys
  9. Like the French
  10. Loretta
  11. Cody
  12. Where the Streets Have No Name
  13. Desert Rat
  14. Lovelight
  1. Working Man
  2. Let the Love Come Through Me
  3. Blackberry Pie
  4. Another City
  5. The Love You Gave Away
  6. What Old Woman
  7. Genie's Loose
  8. The Crest
  9. Mountain Song
  10. Diamonds in the Wind
  11. Every Side of the Coin
  12. Doctor's Daughter
  1. Another Man's Song
  2. Highway Sign
  3. Something Beautiful
  4. Good One Gone
  5. What DO I Know
  6. The Trial of John Walker Lindh
  7. Lay Me Down a Pallet On Your Floor
  8. Well-Oiled Machine
  9. Church Is Where You Make It
  10. Dovetail Joint
  1. You Can Tell
  2. Sittin’ Here Alone
  3. Country Tunes & Love Songs
  4. How Short the Song 3:27
  5. Treasure Island Blues
  6. Never Got Married
  7. Spirits Still Come
  8. Sleeping Giants
  9. Leaving Dallas
  10. When that Lonesome Feeling Comes
  11. Mighty Fine
  12. The One that Everybody Knows
  13. The Deep End

Additional Associations: The Overall Experience, Nat Keefe Concert Carnival and Erik Yates Project

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