Tim O’Brien
Tim O'Brien (March 16, 1954—) is an American country and bluegrass singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist born and raised in Wheeling, West Virginia. He co-founded the bluegrass band Hot Rize in 1978 as well as their honky-tonk alter-ego configuration Red Knuckles and the Trailblazers. He won the 2005 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album for Fiddler's Green, a bluegrass Grammy Award as a member of The Earls of Leicester, and twice received the International Bluegrass Music Association Male Vocalist of the Year award. He was inducted into the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame in 2013, the Colorado Music Hall of Fame in 2022, and the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 2025.
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- No. 5 Oct.—Dec. 1995