This goes hard as fuck and is also criminally underrated

J Stringz

15 Shady Grove

Yonder Mountain String Band live from the Telluride Conference Center at the 2011 Telluride Bluegrass Festival FirstGrass. 

Yonder Mountain String Band - Whipping Post - 6/15/11

Psalms 100

11 1040

03 Midnight Sun

Rock Of Ages

Summertime

Doin' Things Right

Live from Telluride

Run to Heaven (Live)

Thirsty in the Rain (Live)

Outside Looking In

Home Of The Red Fox

Mountain Tracks, Vol. 5

40 Miles from Denver

If Sorrows Swim

Burn Them

The Four

Just One of Them Nights

Mountain Annie

Silver Sky

Walking on the Moon

“There’s this great duality to our band,” reflects Greensky Bluegrass mandolinist, vocalist, and songwriter Paul Hoffman. “We’re existing in a few different places at once: we’re a bluegrass band and a rock band, we’re song-driven and interested in extended improvisation.”

“We play acoustic instruments,” adds dobro player Anders Beck, “but we put on a rock’n’roll show. We play in bigger clubs and theaters, there’s a killer light show, and we’re as loud as your favorite rock band. It’s not easy to make five acoustic instruments sound like this – it’s something we’ve spent years working on.”

From these seemingly irreconcilable elements, the five members of Greensky Bluegrass have forged a defiant, powerful sound that, while rooted in classic stringband Americana, extends outwards with a fearless, exploratory zeal. The tension and release between these components – tradition and innovation, prearranged songs and improvisation, acoustic tones and electric volume – is what makes them so thrillingly dynamic, in concert and on record. “In theory,” Hoffman explains, “greensky is the complete opposite of bluegrass. So, by definition, we are contrasting everything that isn’t bluegrass with everything that is.”

Burn Them

Greensky Bluegrass

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