From the album "This Old Town" (May 2013)

Whiskey (A. Greuel)

Get Out

Burn Them • If Sorrows Swim (2014)

They were like Oil and Water between the laughter and crying

Oil and Water

Any Day Might be the Day
(c) J. Murdock McInnes Vasey

[instrumental]

In the den of his small house
Alfred watched the news
He could hear the kids upstairs
His wife was cooking stew

He had been spending too much time
Doing nothing every day
He no longer worked the line
He no longer got the pay

His job no longer needed
His whole life gone to hell
The whole world was getting poorer
Just a few were doing well

[instrumental]

He'd been born here in LA
But his mother further South
He been told back at the plant
To eat beans and shut his mouth

It was clearer day by day
Things were not going to get better
Pretty soon it would be colder
And the maga's getting bolder

[bridge]

He had been an elec-trician
He knew how to make a spark
He was troubled by ideas
And bit by bit he lost his fears

It was time to do his part
It was time to make them pay
He could still get in the plant
Any day might be the day

[instrumental]

He'd been born here in LA
But his mother further South
He been told back at the plant
To eat beans and shut his mouth

It was clearer day by day
Things were not going to get better
Pretty soon it would be colder
And the maga's getting bolder

[bridge]

He'd been an elec-trician
He knew how to make a spark
He was troubled by ideas
And bit by bit he lost his fears

It was time to do his part
It was time to make them pay
He could still get in the plant
Any day might be the day

[instrumental]

He'd been an elec-trician
He knew how to make a spark
He was troubled by ideas
And bit by bit he lost his fears

It was time to do his part
It was time to make them pay
He could still get in the plant
Any day might be the day

[instrumental]

It was time to make them pay
Any day might be the day

It was time to make them pay
Any day might be the day

Any day might be the day

Any Day Might be the Day

Mountain Tracks, Vol. 5

40 Miles from Denver

Wildflowers

If Sorrows Swim

In Control

The Four

Just One of Them Nights

Mountain Annie

“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.”

In Control

Greensky Bluegrass

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