Ok so near the end of work today, I was listening to Rhapsody and I saw a band whose name sounded interesting Greensky Bluegrass labeled as progressive bluegrass so I put on their current release Five Interstates.
As I was working I was noticing that the music that was playing was REALLY GOOD – loved the dobro and mandolin and the vocals sounded great!!
Discovering GreenSky Bluegrass Live at Bell’s
So I listened to several of the songs and was really impressed so of course I said I’ll try another of the CDs! So I downloaded the album Live at Bells listened to the first track “Bonts Breakdown” and had an Allison Krauss “new favorite” bluegrass band!
So after work, I went to their website and saw that I was not alone in my admiration for the band as they were winners of the 2006 Telluride Bluegrass Festival Band Competition. The band calls Michigan home and consists of
- Anders Beck – dobro
- Michael Arlon Bonts – banjo
- Dave Bruza – guitar
- Mike Devol – upright bass
- Paul Hoffman – mandolin
Since I only listen once to the album, it’s hard to say which tracks are favorites but I do know that “Running the Briars” is definitely high on the list! also the “Road to Nowhere” and “My Sally” and I’m sure many others
So I say go find some Green sky and some Blue grass or is it Blue Sky and Green Grass – oh you know Greensky Bluegrass and enjoy!
As for me I think I’m going to head over to livedownloads.com and pick up All Access Vol.1 – Greensky Bluegrass Vol 1 and listen to lots of Greensky Bluegrass over the next few weeks and hope they come to New Jersey some time!
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Post Update: This post was written in the first few months of my blogging career. As I look back on this time I had some pretty good ideas.Twang Tuesday was one of them. It gave me a chance to load up my music player of the day listen to new artists of a specific genre. Discovering Greensky Blue was a real treat. Anyway, when I went started to revise this post I found that the video was missing. Instead of looking for a video I decided to feature a Live from the Archive video from the band. It was recorded i 2012 as close as I could get to the 2010 date when this post wad published