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Tim O'Brien (b. March 16, 1954 in Wheeling, West Virginia) is an American bluegrass musician. O'Brien plays guitar, fiddle, mandolin, bouzouki and mandocello and is an accomplished vocalist. He moved to Boulder, Colorado in the 1970s and became part of the music scene there. In 1978 he founded the bluegrass group Hot Rize. Hot Rize had its own ofshoot band called Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers. The band would walk off stage, change clothes, and reappear as a different band with its own songs. Most of his recordings are available on Sugar Hill Records. O'Brien currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee. In 2005, O'Brien won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album for Fiddler's Green. In 1993 and 2006, O'Brien was honored with the IBMA's Male Vocalist of the Year award.
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- Hard Year Blues (1984)
- Take Me Back (1988)
- Odd Man In (1991)
- Remember Me (1992)
- Oh Boy! O'Boy! (1993)
- Away Out on the Mountain (1994)
- Rock in My Shoe (1995)
- Red on Blonde (1996)
- When No One's Around (1997)
- The Crossing (1999)
- Real Time (2000) with Darrell Scott
- Two Journeys (2001)
- Traveler (2003)
- Cornbread Nation (2005)
- Fiddler's Green (2005)
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