​Greensky Bluegrass (from the album Stress Dreams

​Greensky Bluegrass (from the album Stress Dreams available from Big Blue Zoo Records) (by Bryant Liggett)
Michigan’s Greensky Bluegrass offers more than string band jams. Although the extended jam offerings Greensky Bluegrass present are some of the best in the genre and newgrass world, it seems their desires run more to being an improvisational whirlwind of a band that can rile their faithful’s into dancing frenzies, then stop on a dime before shooting off into another musical direction. The quintet also has can claim songwriting chops as they produce catchy blasts of Indie Americana, ripe for Bluegrass, Newgrass, and the hard-edged, plugged-in, Folk crowd. Their latest, Stress Dreams, is both, bursts of exploratory jams and carefully crafted songs where lyric and melody play just an important role as the driving, ripping groove.
“Absence of Reason” opens Stress Dreams with a straight-up Newgrass offering, band members stretching out without going too far. The title track is an 8-minute opus that is soft with a gentle bounce with subtle psychedelic amblings.  “Streetlight” follows suit, as both cuts languish in a slow groove. “Cut a Tooth” is a festival-stage cut with its Newgrass drive and instrumental frenzy, “New & Improved” is a bump-and-boogie down the road number. Greensky Bluegrass offer up big ballads, as “Reasons to Stay” is a thick closer that’s as much riffing as it is solid Pop hit. Stress Dreams jams just right though is filed under Indie and Classic Rock, a Roots band that can drop a song. 
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