Steep Canyon Rangers - Live at Greenfield Lake (2024) [Official Digital Download]

Hailing from both the Appalachian and Piedmont regions of North Carolina, the Steep Canyon Rangers have long held traditional bluegrass paramount, while possessing an exceptional ability to bring it down the mountain, and to incorporate accessible influence from all walks of the region.

With the band’s last few albums, they have gained recognition from well beyond the world of bluegrass, earning a reputation as some of the most influential songwriters in Americana today. The band has made a name for themselves across the past quarter-century, with outlets like Rolling Stone recognizing them as "one of the most sought-after groups in Americana, bluegrass, and indie-folk."

Demand for a new live album from the Rangers increased after their GRAMMY-nominated 2019 live album North Carolina Songbook, where the band covered songs across a multitude of artists all born in the Tar Heel State (ranging from James Taylor to Doc Watson to Thelonious Monk, to name a few) at MerleFest. The album drew widespread acclaim and topped the Billboard Bluegrass Chart for numerous weeks, and the requests for a live album of Steep Canyon Rangers' original songs grew louder and louder.

Live at Greenfield Lake captures the magic of Steep Canyon Rangers' onstage chemistry, demonstrating the band's unparalleled harmonies and rich songwriting that has made the band one of the most critically-acclaimed across Americana music. The spellbinding, tender performances of "Recommend Me" and "Birds of Ohio" mixed with blistering, barnburning renditions of "Afterglow" and "Sunny Days" exhibit the wide breadth of styles and genres that the Rangers tackle in concert.

Steep Canyon Rangers is made up of Graham Sharp on banjo and vocals, Mike Guggino on mandolin/mandola and vocals, Aaron Burdett on guitar and vocals, Nicky Sanders on fiddle and vocals, Mike Ashworth on drums, dobro, guitar and vocals, and Barrett Smith on bass, guitar, and vocals. “What you’re hearing is a representation of what we’ve been working on these last couple of years,” the band says, “and the performance is not without blemishes, but that’s never really the point, is it?”

Over the band’s esteemed career, the three-time Grammy nominees have released 14 studio albums, three collaborative albums with actor and banjoist Steve Martin, been inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame, and appeared on some of music’s biggest stages. In 2013, Nobody Knows You won the GRAMMY Award for Best Bluegrass Album, while 2012’s Rare Bird Alert and 2019’s North Carolina Songbook garnered nominations in the same category.

Mike Ashworth: Vocals, Drums, Dobro, Guitar
Aaron Burdett: Vocals, Guitar
Mike Guggino: Vocals, Mandolin, Mandola
Nicky Sanders: Vocals, Fiddle
Graham Sharp: Vocals, Banjo, Electric Banjo, Guitar, Harmonica
Barrett Smith: Vocals, Bass

Tracklist:
01 - As I Go (Live)
02 - Sweet Spot (Live)
03 - Pennies on the Tracks (Live)
04 - Recommend Me (Live)
05 - Tell the Ones I Love _ Chuck in the Bush _ Tell the Ones I Love (Live)
06 - Fare Thee Well, Carolina Gals (Live)
07 - Alabama Calling (Live)
08 - Above My Burdens (Live)
09 - Can't Get Home (Live)
10 - Take My Mind (Live)
11 - Morning Shift (Live)
12 - Birds of Ohio (Live)
13 - Afterglow (Live)
14 - Second in Line (Junior) (Live)
15 - Fruits of My Labor (Live)
16 - Sunny Days (Live)


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