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Artist Hot Buttered Rum

  • Hot Buttered Rum Matt Sharkey
  • Hot Buttered Rum Photo: Matt Sharkey
  • hot buttered rum Matt Sharkey

While Hot Buttered Rum finds itself followed by ever more bluegrass-inspired jam bands these days, the group’s folky songs keep up a good balance of traditional picking and gentle boundary-crossing. Sure, it’s just as well-suited to a summer festival as any act with this mix of sounds, but the group’s songs—which put a bit of rock rhythm behind stand-up bass, fiddle, banjo, and acoustic guitar—are written with the sort of patience that buys the members more time to jam. For a good sense of the group’s robustly diverse stage show, check out 2007’s Live In The Northeast, which Hot Buttered Rum followed with the 2009 studio release Limbs Akimbo.

Updated 06/08/2011

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