Hot Rize

After 2000, Sutton took on many varied projects.

He joined a reconstituted Hot Rize, the classic progressive Colorado band.

He played guitar on Dolly Parton's Grass Is Blue, The Dixie Chicks' Home, Dierks Bentley's Up on the Ridge, and many more.

He was integrated into the world of Bela Fleck, Jerry Douglas, Stuart Duncan, and Sam Bush for a variety of history-making acoustic records and tours.

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You know? But still very instrumental.

But, uh, but our, like our family band, it was, you know, we would start doing more of the Flatt and Scruggs, Stanley Brothers, you know, Ranked Strangers and, and, and some of the more modern tunes from bands like Hot Rize, uh, in the mid, mid-'80s and things like that.

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