Hot Buttered Rum String Band
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Hot Buttered Rum is an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 five-piece progressive bluegrass
Progressive bluegrass
Progressive bluegrass is one of two major subgenres of bluegrass music. It is also known as newgrass, a term attributed to New Grass Revival member Ebo Walker. Musicians and bands John Hartford, New Grass Revival, J.D. Crowe and the New South, The Dillards, Boone Creek, Country Gazette, and the...

 act based in the San Francisco Bay Area
San Francisco Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a populated region that surrounds the San Francisco and San Pablo estuaries in Northern California. The region encompasses metropolitan areas of San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose, along with smaller urban and rural areas...

.

The group performs frequently at music festivals, including the Telluride Bluegrass Festival
Telluride Bluegrass Festival
Telluride Bluegrass Festival is held annually in Telluride, Colorado by . Although traditionally the festival focuses on bluegrass music, it often features music from a variety of genres. In 1974, its first year, it attracted 1000 participants. Currently the festival's attendance is capped at 10,000...

, Newport Folk Festival
Newport Folk Festival
The Newport Folk Festival is an American annual folk-oriented music festival in Newport, Rhode Island, which began in 1959 as a counterpart to the previously established Newport Jazz Festival...

, South by Southwest
South by Southwest
South by Southwest is an Austin, Texas based company dedicated to planning conferences, trade shows, festivals and other events. Their current roster of annual events include: SXSW Music, SXSW Film, SXSW Interactive, SXSWedu, and SXSWeco and take place every spring in Austin, Texas, United States...

, High Sierra Music Festival
High Sierra Music Festival
High Sierra Music Festival is a multi-day music festival held in Quincy, California, a mountainous area about 80 miles northwest of Reno, Nevada.The festival is held each year the weekend of July 4...

, Bonnaroo Music Festival
Bonnaroo Music Festival
The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival is an annual four day music festival created and produced by Superfly Productions and AC Entertainment, held at Great Stage Park on a 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee. It hosted its tenth annual event June 9–12, 2011...

, Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival, and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival. They have also headlined The Fillmore
The Fillmore
The Fillmore Auditorium is a historic music venue in San Francisco, California, made famous by Bill Graham. Named for its original location at the intersection of Fillmore Street and Geary Boulevard, it lies on the boundary of the Western Addition and the Pacific Heights neighborhoods.In 1968,...

 in their home city of San Francisco
San Francisco, California
San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...

 and have performed with a wide array of artists, including Phil Lesh
Phil Lesh
Phillip Chapman Lesh is a musician and a founding member of the Grateful Dead, with whom he played bass guitar throughout their 30-year career....

, Ben Harper
Ben Harper
Benjamin Chase "Ben" Harper is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Harper plays an eclectic mix of blues, folk, soul, reggae and rock music and is known for his guitar-playing skills, vocals, live performances and activism. Harper's fan base spans several continents...

, Chris Thile
Chris Thile
Christopher Scott Thile is an American musician, best known as the mandolinist and a singer for the progressive acoustic trio Nickel Creek. His current band is Punch Brothers whose most recent album is Antifogmatic...

, Bela Fleck
Béla Fleck
Béla Anton Leoš Fleck is an American banjo player. Widely acknowledged as one of the world's most innovative and technically proficient banjo players, he is best known for his work with the bands New Grass Revival and Béla Fleck and the Flecktones.-Early life and career details:Fleck was born in...

, Peter Rowan, and Bill Nershi
Bill Nershi
Bill Nershi was a founding member and acoustic guitarist in The String Cheese Incident, a US jamband from Boulder, Colorado....

.

Discography

  • Live at the Freight and Salvage (2002)
(recorded live at Berkeley's premier listening venue The Freight and Salvage
The Freight and Salvage
The Freight and Salvage is a nonprofit musical performance venue in Berkeley, California, that primarily hosts folk music and world music acts. It was founded in 1968 and derived its name from the used furniture store that previously occupied the same space on San Pablo Avenue...

)
  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
    • In These Parts (2004)
(HBR's first studio effort recorded in the hills of Fairfax, California
Fairfax, California
Fairfax is an incorporated town in Marin County, California, United States. Fairfax is located west-northwest of San Rafael, at an elevation of 115 feet...

)
  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
    • Well Oiled Machine (2006)
  11. Firefly
  12. Guns or Butter
  13. Idaho Pines
  14. Poison Oak
  15. Waterpocket Fold
  16. Always Be the Moon
  17. Well-Oiled Machine
  18. Waiting for a Squall
  19. Butch & Peggy
  20. Sweet Honey Fountain
  21. Wedding Day
    • Live in the Northeast (2007)
  22. Busted in Utah
  23. Limbo in Lovelock
  24. Desert Rat
  25. Return Someday
  26. Cumberland Blues
  27. Metrosexual
  28. Summertime Gal
  29. California Snow & Rain
  30. Spider
  31. Queen Elizabeth
  32. Honey Be
  33. You Make Me Feel Like Dancing
    • Limbs Akimbo (2009)
  34. Two Loose Cannons
  35. Something New
  36. Beneath the Blossoms
  37. A Great Many Things
  38. Brokedown
  39. Sexy Bakery Girl
  40. Queen Elizabeth
  41. Turning the Wheel
  42. Honkytonk Tequila
  43. Summertime Gal
  44. Limbs Akimbo


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

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