Tim O'Brien

Varieties of tradition

by James M. Manheim

posted 10/1/2005

A singer, songwriter, and player of almost anything with strings, Tim O'Brien started out in the late 1970s as cofounder of a bluegrass band called Hot Rize that contained its own western alter ego, Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers. He landed a few compositions on country albums by the likes of Garth Brooks, plowing the profits back into musical terrain with

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