Greensky Bluegrass Release New Album: “Stress Dreams”

Americana/alt-country and roots-rock band, Greensky Bluegrass are thrilled to share their eighth studio album  Stress Dreams, out now via Thirty Tigers.

Ahead of the release, Stress Dreams received high praise from critics. Garden & Gun calls the album “one of the most complete and engaging of the group’s more than twenty-year career” and Glide says “Stress Dreams perfectly exemplifies, once again, why Greensky Bluegrass is heralded as one of the most important & influential bands of the modern progressive-bluegrass era.”
As Greensky Bluegrass continues to write their own script, Holler. points out that: “Once again, Greensky Bluegrass have deliberately gone outside the box.”  In addition to the new album, the band has collaborated with famed animator Grant Kolton – who has created videos for Cage The Elephant, My Morning Jacket, and more.

The band will be hosting a YouTube premiere today at 5 pm ET and will be participating in a live chat with fans.
Greensky Bluegrass kicked off their 19-date winter tour with special guests The Infamous String Dusters yesterday in Albany, NY, and will make their way through the east coast, midwest, and mid-Atlantic wrapping up with two nights in Atlanta on February 25 and 26.

Check out the video for the title track off the new album below:

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Since their 2000 formation in Kalamazoo, MI, the quartet—Anders Beck [dobro], Michael Arlen Bont [banjo], Dave Bruzza [guitar], Mike Devol [upright bass], and Paul Hoffman [mandolin]—have unassumingly progressed into a phenomenon on their own terms with the undying support of a devout audience. Rolling back and forth across North America on successive tours, they’ve sold out multiple dates at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, the Ryman Auditorium, the Fillmore Detroit, iviera Theater Chicago, and many more.

Beyond standout sets at Bonnaroo, Outside Lands, New Orleans Jazz Festival, Telluride Bluegrass Festival, and Austin City Limits, they co-own and have headlined 4848 Festival and Strings & Sol. In 2019, All For Money marked their second #1 debut on the Billboard Top Bluegrass Albums Chart and third straight Top 3 entry. They’ve also earned critical acclaim from Billboard, Parade, NPR, and Rolling Stone who hailed them as “representing the genre for a whole new generation.”

For the past century, bluegrass music has traditionally relayed real tales of American life, struggle, tragedy, and triumph. It gives a voice to the quiet, yet colorful stories woven into the fabric of the country itself. Greensky Bluegrass live these stories through their records and performances.

When touring ceased in 2020 in the face of the global pandemic, the band hunkered down and compiled demos individually at first, sharing emails and voice notes. In July 2020, they got together for the first time in four months, dedicating rehearsals to the development of the new material. Once circumstances safely permitted, they recorded what would become Stress Dreams during a session in Guilford, VT and two sessions in Asheville, NC with frequent collaborator “and old friend” Dominic John Davis as producer and “wizard engineer” Glenn Brown mixing. They preserved the hallmarks of their sound while widening its expanse.

“Greensky is and always has been very unique in our world,” says Paul Hoffman. “We put our love, energy, and focus into what we appreciate about our music. We come together as a band in a way that’s organic. We take a lot of pride in how we grow and challenge each other too. We’re maturing together. I think we get more Greensky all of the time.”

You can buy / stream Stress Dreams HERE.

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