{"title":"Tim O'Brien","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"pompadour","title":"Pompadour","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt's been four years since the last Tim O'Brien solo record, and he has not sat idle. He's been fronting, piloting and performing with folks like Steve Martin and Mark Knopfler to Hot Rize and Earls of Leicester, a group that includes dobro-master, Jerry Douglas. He's achieved award-winning success, played with a vast grouping of musicians and yet the solo work keeps tugging at his feet. Pompadour swirls together bits of bluegrass, deep-roots Appalachian music, field hollers, old-school rock 'n' roll to traditional jazz and even James Brownian funk. The same applies to the perspectives from which O'Brien addresses the central theme. The spare lyrics of \"I Gotta Move\" and use of everyday images on \"I'm A Mess For You\" imply rather than spell out a story of loss and redemption. A steady-rockin' groove drives the classic trope of asking a doctor for a cure to heartache on \"Give Me A Little Somethin' Take Her Off My Mind.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Howdy Skies","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50471032127819,"sku":"398136","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"he-walked-on","title":"He Walked On","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTim O'Brien\u003c\/strong\u003e presents \u003cem\u003eHe Walked On\u003c\/em\u003e, his 18th solo album. The album features eight new originals and five covers from Yip Harburg, R.B. Morris, Bill Caswell, and others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eO'Brien weaves uniquely American stories of the workplace, immigration, the Internet, and race relations. Standout tracks include a tribute to the late John Lewis - \"\u003cem\u003eWhen You Pray (Move Your Feet)\u003c\/em\u003e\", and a poignant song about the children of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings - \"\u003cem\u003eCan You See Me, Sister?\u003c\/em\u003e\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe album features a talented lineup of musicians, including drummer Pete Abbott, guitarists Bo Ramsey and Chris Scruggs, bassist Edgar Meyer, keyboardist Mike Rojas, and vocalist Odessa Settles. Additionally, regular band members Mike Bub on bass, Shad Cobb on fiddle, and Jan Fabricius on vocals and mandolin round out the stellar ensemble on this latest release from \u003cstrong\u003eTim O'Brien\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Howdy Skies","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50474683007307,"sku":"1122482","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/add2cda7-f51e-4206-b797-3fd4ab31a1c4_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727437313"},{"product_id":"cup-of-sugar","title":"Cup of Sugar","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo-time Grammy award winning Americana artist Tim O'Brien is back with a strong follow up to 2021's \u003ci\u003eHe Walked On\u003c\/i\u003e. Including 13 new originals about a bear, a fish, lambs, horses, and some people too - a grave digger, a neighbour, and even Walter Cronkite - \u003ci\u003eCup of Sugar\u003c\/i\u003e is a feel-good summer release with humour on top and deeper meanings just below the surface. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Mullti-instrumental list O'Brien is backed by his loyal band mates Mike Bub, Shad Cobb and wife Jan Fabricius, supplemented by Jamie Dick on drums, Mike Rojas on keyboards, Russ Pahl on steel guitar, and Cory Walker on banjo. Bluegrass icon Del McCoury lends his signature guitar and tenor vocal on \"Let the Horses Run\". Co-writers include Ronnie Bowman, Jonathon Byrd, Shawn Camp, Jan Fabricius, and Thomm Jutz. Sounding more and more like himself, O'Brien debuted the new material from \"Cup of Sugar\" at the 50th annual Telluride Bluegrass festival. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Tim O’Brien is recognized as one of  the spearheads of contemporary bluegrass. Over his 40 year career the West Virginia Music Hall of  Famer has recorded more than a dozen studio albums under his own name, in collaboration with family members, and as a founding member of Hot Rize.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Howdy Skies","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50483027575115,"sku":"2029537","price":48.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50483027181899,"sku":"2029536","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Cup_of_Sugar_1f601ab0_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727560011"},{"product_id":"paper-flowers-dm","title":"Paper Flowers","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo-time Grammy award winning Americana artist Tim O'Brien might operate a bit under music business radar, but he's been an essential part of the fabric of the folk, bluegrass, Americana, and songwriter scenes for the past fifty years. Since his emergence as singer, instrumentalist, and songwriter with the iconic 1980s bluegrass group Hot Rize, the West Virginia native has continued down a diverse and constantly evolving musical pathway. In the process he's written songs for people like Garth Brooks and the Dixie Chicks, released rootsy classics like Red on Blonde and The Crossing, and earned a few Grammy awards. For the past ten years, OBrien has performed primarily with his wife Jan Fabricius, and their new release Paper Flowers is tangible proof of that deep collaboration. As O'Brien explains, their partnership started informally. \"Jan started adding harmony vocals to shows and recordings soon after we became a couple in 2013. We would play music around the house, and she would learn new songs as I wrote them. Then soon enough we started writing  together.\" When Cathy Fink and Jon Weisberger approached O'Brien in 2023 to contribute to what became 2024s Bluegrass Sings Paxton, Tim and Jan wrote You Took Me In with the man himself. Encouraged by the results, the three scheduled weekly Zoom co-writing sessions and the songs kept coming. Paper Flowers includes twelve of those songs as well as three more originals, two of which Jan and Tim wrote together and one that Tim wrote. Recorded at Cowboy Arms and the Tractor Shed in Nashville with help from longtime collaborators like bassists Mike Bub and Edgar Meyer, fiddler Shad Cobb, keyboard ace Mike Rojas and drummer Larry Atamanuik, the result is a story-in-song of the couples life together. 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