Tim O’Brien

Quick Facts

Full Name	Tim O'Brien
Occupation	Guitarist
Date Of Birth	Mar 16, 1954(1954-03-16)
Age	70
Birthplace	Wheeling
Country	United States
Birth City	Wheeling
Horoscope	Pisces

Tim O'Brien Biography

Tim O'Brien is one of the most popular and richest Guitarist who was born on March 16, 1954 in Wheeling, Wheeling, United States. Tim O’Brien was born on March 16, 1954 and raised in Wheeling, West Virginia, the youngest in a family of five children. At the age of 12, he first heard a Bob Dylan record, played by his older sister Mollie, afterwards deciding to take up music. Throughout his teens, he taught himself to play guitar, violin, and mandolin.

In 1984, O’Brien and his sister Mollie O’Brien reunited for a Mother’s Day concert, and four years later recorded the duet album Take Me Back. Chip Renner of AllMusic gave the album 4.5/5 stars, and called it “a masterpiece.” In 1986 they began performing again as an Americana duo, and produced two more albums, Remember Me (1992), and Away Out on the Mountain (1994). All three records were released on Sugar Hill Records.

In 1990, Hot Rize disbanded as a regular touring and recording band. However, after the death of guitarist Charles Sawtelle, in 2002 Hot Rize was joined by award winning guitarist Bryan Sutton and the band began to once again play limited engagements.

To broaden their repertoire, the members of Hot Rize would often split their show with a set of classic and offbeat country and western music in the comic guise of Red Knuckles and the Trailblazers. The band would walk off stage, change clothes, and reappear as a different band (O’Brien assumed the mantle of “Red Knuckles”), with its own songs, fictional back story and odd costumes. Hot Rize was the International Bluegrass Music Association’s first Entertainer of the Year in 1990, and in 1993, O’Brien took the IBMA’s Male Vocalist of the Year honors.

In 1973, he dropped out of Colby College to pursue music professionally. He wrote to his mother at the time, saying, “I’m heading west. I know 200 songs now, and I figure if I keep learning more I should be all right.”

Tim O'Brien Net Worth

Tim O'Brien is one of the richest Guitarist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tim O'Brien 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Tim O’Brien (born March 16, 1954) is an American country and bluegrass musician. In addition to singing, he plays guitar, fiddle, mandolin, banjo, bouzouki and mandocello. He has released more than ten studio albums, in addition to charting a duet with Kathy Mattea entitled “The Battle Hymn of Love”, a No. 9 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts in 1990. In November 2013 he was inducted into the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame.

He eventually moved to Boulder, Colorado in the 1970s and became part of the music scene there. In Colorado, he met guitarist/bassist Charles Sawtelle, banjoist Pete Wernick, and guitarist Mike Scap, with whom he formed Hot Rize in 1978. Mike Scap was soon replaced by Nick Forster on bass with Sawtelle moving to guitar. Over the next twelve years, the quartet earned recognition as one of America’s most innovative and entertaining bluegrass bands. Never straying too far from a traditional sound, Hot Rize stood out with fresh harmony singing, Wernick’s melodic banjo playing, and O’Brien’s easy-going rhythmic drive.

O’Brien, who had already recorded several albums without Hot Rize, embarked on a solo career. He briefly signed to RCA Records, recording an album with them called “Odd Man In”, before being dropped. Sugar Hill Records eventually released the album, and O’Brien has not signed to a major since. In 1990, O’Brien also charted along with Kathy Mattea on the duet “The Battle Hymn of Love”, which peaked at No. 9 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts.

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Who is Tim O'Brien Dating?

According to our records, Tim O'Brien married to Meredith Baker (m. 2001). As of December 1, 2023, Tim O'Brien’s is not dating anyone.

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Facts & Trivia

Tim Ranked on the list of most popular Guitarist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Tim O'Brien celebrates birthday on March 16 of every year.

Why was Tim O'Brien against the Vietnam War?

Tim O’Brien was a part of the opposition group due to his belief that the war was pointless unless it meant something or if it was for a greater cause. There were many who saw the war from his point of view and fled and then there were others who tried to justify the war and convince him.

What does Tim O'Brien say about the Vietnam War?

Tim O’Brien On Late-In-Life Fatherhood And The Things He Carried From Vietnam. Tim O’Brien was a foot soldier during the Vietnam War. “The problem for me really is that I questioned the rectitude of the war,” he says. “I thought I was doing the wrong thing by being there.”

Does Tim O'Brien have a daughter?

I don’t have a daughter. I don’t have children. To my knowledge, at least, I never killed anyone. Jimmy Cross never visited me at my house in Massachusetts, because of course Jimmy Cross does not exist in the world of objects, and never did.

Is The Things They Carried a true story?

By establishing that the novel is a “work of fiction” as he notes on the title page of the story, Tim O’Brien clearly wants readers to understand that while the book may be inspired by his experiences in Vietnam, it is not a memoir of his time there. Many events in the novel did not really happen.

What was O'Brien most afraid of when he went to war?

He states that he fears the war but fears exile and all that it means to him, his family and his community.