Artist:Greensky Bluegrass
Song:Demons
Album:If Sorrows Swim
Greensky Bluegrass is a contemporary bluegrass band. They mix traditional bluegrass with contemporary music elements. They are from Kalamazoo, MI. Guitarist Michael Bruzza, mandolinist Paul Hoffman and banjo player Michael Arlen Bont formed Greensky Bluegrass in 2000 and for the first few years they played local clubs. They started their own Big Blue Zoo label and released the 2004 album Less Than Supper. After adding Mike Devol on bass and Anders Beck on dobro, Greensky Bluegrass built a following opening for Bela Fleck & The Flecktones, Sam Bush and The Avett Brothers. This paid off when their 2011 album Handguns reached #3 on the Billboard Bluegrass album chart. Demons is from the 2014 album If Sorrows Swim. Hoffman wrote that song and several others on the album. And Bruzza wrote songs too. If they were around in the 70s Greensky Bluegrass would have been called Newgrass. Their music is not traditional bluegrass. They cover rock songs live and they have an open recording policy like Phish and The Grateful Dead. So there are all kinds of live recordings out there. Greensky Bluegrass' latest CD All For Money was released last year. Here's Greensky Bluegrass performing Demons at Paradise Rock Club in Boston Jan. 24, 2014 produced by Boston's PBS station WGBH.
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