Billy Strings
2021.09.28 WAVE
Wichita, KS

Wharf Rat (Grateful Dead Cover)

Thanks to Dave Adair for the recording - https://archive.org/details/billystrings2021-09-28.km184/flac+16/bs2021-09-28km184-06.flac

2021.09.28 Wave, Wichita, KS

Wharf Rat - Billy Strings Live in Wichita 9/28/2021

Stress Dreams

Get Sad

New & Improved

Screams

Streetlight

18 Grateful Dead 1985-11-22 Henry J. Kaiser, Oakland, CA *bisq* - Brokedown Palace

All For the Song

Blues Highway

GarciaLive Volume 18: November 2nd, 1974 Keystone Berkeley

You Can Leave Your Hat On (Live) [feat. Jerry Garcia]

Tongue in cheek song about relationship confusion.

The Coolest Part Of You

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

Billy Strings
Capitol Theatre
Port Chester, NY
January 17, 2020

China Doll (Grateful Dead Cover)

Thanks to cabinetmusic for the recording - https://archive.org/details/billystrings2020-01-17.litz.schoepsMK41v.flac24/billystrings2020-01-17set1t06.flac

China Doll - Billy Strings Live at the Capitol Theater 1/17/2020

“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.”

New & Improved

Greensky Bluegrass

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