From the 2008 album, "Five Interstates"
©2008 Big Blue Zoo/Greensky Bluegrass

200 Miles From Montana • Five Interstates (2008)

Burn Them • If Sorrows Swim (2014)

Written, Recorded & Produced By; Burton Trent 

26th June 2024

Where Are All The Cowboys - Burton Trent

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

Cold Feet - Handguns (2011)

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Deal

Garcia (Compliments) (Expanded)

That's What Love Will Make You Do

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Been Down This Road

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Brand New Good Old Days

“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.”

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