Hot Buttered Rum

Thousands gather in the WV mountains for one of the best events each summer.

The Yarmony Grass Music Festival takes place August 15-17 at Copper Mountain Resort — high in the Colorado Rockies.

Hot Buttered Rum’s Well-Oiled Machine is the band's second studio effort and was produced by Mike Marshall and recorded by famed Garcia / Grisman engineer Decibel Dave Dennison.

The goal of any good music film is to show what it was like to be at the venue when sparks flew from the stage, not necessarily the truth of the moments captured but the essence of the event that transpired. Most celluloid sequences just don’t get the job done—cutaway shots to insignificant visual images, show-offy camera angles that disrupt the flow of the music, short-changed artists with solos edited and brutal slices that choose not to expose the skinned-knee portions of any really good musical set.

2005 has already been a busy year for the Hot Buttered Rum String Band. Taking only three days off after a New Year's gig in San Francisco, the band embarked on a five state, eleven gig tour.