J Stringz

Live Vol. 1

Away From The Mire (Live at Moody Center, Austin, TX 6/2/23)

Smash Hits Vol. 1

Okayalright

When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops

From the 2011 album, "Handguns" by Greensky Bluegrass.  http://www.greenskybluegrass.com

I'd Probably Kill You • Handguns (2011)

11 1040

03 Midnight Sun

From "Shouted, Written Down & Quoted" 

www.greenskybluegrass.com

Shouted, Written Down & Quoted

Living Over • Shouted, Written Down & Quoted (2016)

Yonder Mountain String Band performing Ween's "Bananas And Blow" at Strings & Sol 2017.  12/8/17  Photo by Josh Timmermans.

"Bananas And Blow" - Yonder Mountain String Band

Live from Telluride

Run to Heaven (Live)

Thirsty in the Rain (Live)

Outside Looking In

Home Of The Red Fox

Mountain Tracks, Vol. 2

Two Hits and the Joint Turned Brown (Live)

Past My Prime

If Sorrows Swim

The Four

Silver Sky

Walking on the Moon

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.”

The Four

Greensky Bluegrass

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