The vinyl 2xLP is pressed on purple and gold vinyl and limited to 1,000 copies worldwide! The 2xLP was pressed at the state-of-the-art facilities of Citizen Vinyl in Asheville, North Carolina.
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.
Also available from Steep Canyon Rangers:
North Carolina Songbook (2019)
Be Still Moses (with the Asheville Symphony) (2020)
Arm in Arm (2020)
Morning Shift (2023)
