Hot Buttered Rum (also known as Hot Buttered Rum String Band and HBRSB) is an American six-piece progressive bluegrass act based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The group performs frequently at music festivals, including the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Newport Folk Festival, South by Southwest, High Sierra Music Festival, Bonnaroo Music Festival, Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival, and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival. They have also headlined The Fillmore in their home city of San Francisco and have performed with a wide array of artists, including Phil Lesh, Ben Harper, Chris Thile, Bela Fleck, Peter Rowan, and Bill Nershi.
Their song "Right Between Your Eyes" gained national prominence when it was selected to serve as the theme music for the TV show, "Cook's Country from America's Test Kitchen" during seasons one through 11.
Discography Live at the Freight and Salvage (2002) (recorded live at Berkeley's premier listening venue The Freight and Salvage) Backrooms of My Mind Elephant Hunting Song Red-Haired Boy String's Breath The Trial of John Walker Lindh Norwegian Wood Warm Up Naked Blue Red Clay Halo The Crest In These Parts (2004) (HBR's first studio effort recorded in the hills of Fairfax, California) Three Point Two Flask, Alas! Evolution Old Dangerfield I've Let Go Lighten Up Your Load Horseshoe Reckless Tex Immaculate Rain In These Parts Well Oiled Machine (2006) Firefly Guns or Butter Idaho Pines Poison Oak Waterpocket Fold Always Be the Moon Well-Oiled Machine Waiting for a Squall Butch & Peggy Sweet Honey Fountain Wedding Day Live in the Northeast (2007) Busted in Utah Limbo in Lovelock Desert Rat Return Someday Cumberland Blues Metrosexual Summertime Gal California Snow & Rain Spider Queen Elizabeth Honey Be You Make Me Feel Like Dancing Limbs Akimbo (2010) Two Loose Cannons Something New Beneath the Blossoms A Great Many Things Brokedown Sexy Bakery Girl Queen Elizabeth Turning the Wheel Honkytonk Tequila Summertime Gal Limbs Akimbo Live In The Sierra (2012) Fruit of the Vine Squall Way Back When Blue Moon Stars Banished Set Beyond the Sky Ramblin' Girl Be Kind Boys Like the French Loretta Cody Where the Streets Have No Name Desert Rat Lovelight Hot Buttered Rum (2014) Working Man Let the Love Come Through Me Blackberry Pie Another City The Love You Gave Away What Old Woman Genie's Loose The Crest Mountain Song Diamonds in the Wind Every Side of the Coin Doctor's Daughter Kite & the Key (2016) Weary Ways I Wanna Know Maybe I Just Feel That Way First Rodeo So Much You Be the Fiddle Pig In A Pen Ramshackle Shack A Lonesome Night How Mountain Girls Can Love Red Wicked Wine Unclouded Day Cherry Lake Music's Been Good To Me Desert Rat A Great Many Things Middle Country Stars House On the Hill Something Beautiful (2020) Another Man's Song Highway Sign Something Beautiful Good One Gone What DO I Know The Trial of John Walker Lindh Lay Me Down a Pallet On Your Floor Well-Oiled Machine Church Is Where You Make It Dovetail Joint Lonesome Panoramic (2021) You Can Tell Sittin’ Here Alone Country Tunes & Love Songs How Short the Song 3:27 Treasure Island Blues Never Got Married Spirits Still Come Sleeping Giants Leaving Dallas When that Lonesome Feeling Comes Mighty Fine The One that Everybody Knows The Deep End Uphill Highway (2025) Uphill Highway Outside Looking In Sturgeon Moon Outrage Machine Not Falling For It Time To Rise Lucky Doing This At All Any Other Way Let’s Fall Apart Together Rearview Mirror
Additional Associations: The Overall Experience, Nat Keefe Concert Carnival and Erik Yates Project
References
External links Live music recordings (Archive.org) Fan site and online database (www.morebutter.net) Interactive fan site (www.hotbutteredrum.com) photography from live shows available at www.gromfotos.com and www.deadesq.com CLIF GreenNotes