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Bluegrass. For this 5-piece band the sky is the limit when it comes to rocking out traditional bluegrass instruments. Their sound is clean, crisp and spirited. Layered instrumentation paired with insightful lyrics makes for a colorful 12-song collection. The opening track “Windshield” starts off delicate before it swells with desperation with all the string instruments punctuating the narrator’s potent points. “Burn Them” ignites with a peppy pace and pointed prose. “Kerosene” is another fluid tune with a lot of spark. If Sorrows Swim is a stellar record allowing Greensky Bluegrass to run the range from sassy to serious in melodic shades that take bluegrass music into the stratosphere. A’Mericana describes themselves as a collective musical consciousness. Their latest release Salvation Unkind journeys through a diverse sonic landscape with a nod to the lost art Watch Greensky Bluegrass perform “Windshield” NewJerseyStage.com 2016 - ISSUE 2 Table of Contents 45