I've started bootlegging across the county line for this fine sippin bourbon... That's ole sheriff'll never catch me....

Stress Dreams

New & Improved

All For the Song

Blues Highway

Grateful Dead  11/29/80  University of Florida - Shakedown ->Franklin's ->Estimated Prophet

Songs For The Reaper

From the 2011 album Handguns 
©2011 Big Blue Zoo/Greensky Bluegrass

Handguns - Handguns(2011)

moe. - Opium Ft. Warren Haynes (Mountain Jam 2015)

This matrix track from August 2008 was resynced on 9/25/11 for the stream here. Wonderful Jerry ballad on acoustic guitar.

I've Been All Around This World - 10/3/80 Warfield Theatre - San Francisco, CA

Railroad Earth - Adding My Voice

Umphrey's McGee "Mike's Song" 4.15.1998 The Landing ~ South Bend , IN

Umphrey's Mcgee - All Night Long

All For Money

Courage for the Road

“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.”

Courage for the Road

Greensky Bluegrass

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