Radio Boogie was the debut studio album from Hot Rize, the Boulder, Colorado band that became one of the most influential bluegrass groups of the 1980s. The record introduced a lineup that would define the group for years: Tim O'Brien on mandolin and vocals, Charles Sawtelle on guitar, Nick Forster on bass, and Pete Wernick on banjo. Released in 1981, the album showed a band already confident in a sound that balanced traditional bluegrass structures with original songwriting and tight ensemble playing. Hot Rize took their name from a leavening ingredient in Martha White flour, nodding to the Flatt and Scruggs sponsorships of an earlier era, and that combination of historical awareness and contemporary energy runs through the entire record.
Tracklist
- 1 Radio Boogie 2:44
- 2 Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow 2:25
- 3 Wild Bill Jones 2:13
- 4 Land Of Enchantment 3:19
- 5 The Man in the Middle 2:58
- 6 I Long For The Hills 2:27
- 7 Just Ain't 2:13
- 8 No Brakes 2:17
- 9 Walkin' The Dog 2:40
- 10 The Sweetest Song I Sing 3:32
- 11 Tom And Jerry 2:23
- 12 Gone But Not Forgotten 2:51