The Hot Band

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Sylvester formed a different The Hot Band and recorded with it in 1973, before this one.

The Hot Band was a band of session musicians formed by Emmylou Harris in 1974. Signed by Warner Bros. Records, label executives told Harris they would agree to record her if she would "get a hot band". Harris did so, enlisting guitarist James Burton and Glen Hardin, both of whom had played with Elvis Presley (Hardin was also a former Cricket with Buddy Holly). Other members were drummer John Ware, singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell on guitar, pedal steel guitarist Hank de Vito and bassist Emory Gordy, with whom Harris had worked while performing with Gram Parsons.

During the late 1970s, bluegrass multi instrumentalist and singer Ricky Skaggs was a member of the band, as was English guitarist Albert Lee, who replaced James Burton.

Though the band's personnel changed over the following decades (due largely to various members achieving fame and embarking on solo careers), Harris kept the band together into the early 1990s.

The Hot Band was disbanded in 1991, when Harris formed a new backing band, the all-acoustic bluegrass band, the Nash Ramblers.