Captured in it's entirety on 7/30/2010 at Mexcali Live in NJ. Multitracked and studio mixed/mastered for your listening pleasure. 2 full sets of originals, bluegrass and some great covers. High energy show and a great example of Greensky Bluegrass' celebrated live show.

No Idea • All Access: Vol. 2

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

Nine Days • Five Interstates (2008)

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

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

Handguns - Handguns(2011)

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

All For Money

Courage for the Road

Like Reflections

Wish I Didn't Know

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.”

Nine Days • Five Interstates (2008)

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