About Leftover Salmon
Classic jam band
Few bands stick around for thirty years. Even fewer bands
leave a legacy during that time that marks them as a truly special,
once-in-lifetime type band. And no band has done all that and had as much fun
as Leftover Salmon.
Since their earliest days as a forward thinking, progressive
bluegrass band who had the guts to add drums to the mix and who was unafraid to
stir in any number of highly combustible styles into their ever evolving sound,
to their role as a pioneer of the modern jamband scene, to their current status
as elder-statesmen of the scene who cast a huge influential shadow over every
festival they play, Leftover Salmon has been a crucial link in keeping alive
the traditional music of the past while at the same time pushing that sound
forward with their own weirdly, unique style.
The band now features a lineup that has been together longer
than any other in Salmon history and is one of the strongest the legendary band
has ever assembled. Built around the core of founding members Drew Emmitt and
Vince Herman, the band is now powered by banjo-wiz Andy Thorn and driven by the
steady rhythm section of bassist Greg Garrison, drummer Alwyn Robinson, and
dobro player & keyboardist Jay Starling.
The current lineup is continuing the long, storied history
of Salmon which found them first emerging from the progressive bluegrass world
and coming of age as one the original jam bands, before rising to become
architects of what has become known as Jamgrass and helping to create a
landscape where bands schooled in the traditional rules of bluegrass can break
free of those bonds through nontraditional instrumentation and an innate
ability to push songs in new psychedelic directions live.
Salmon is a band who for more than thirty years has never
stood still; they are constantly changing, evolving, and inspiring. If someone
wanted to understand what Americana music is they could do no better than to go
to a Leftover Salmon show, where they effortlessly glide from a bluegrass
number born on the front porch, to the down-and-dirty Cajun swamps with a stop
on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, to the hallowed halls of the Ryman in
Nashville, before firing one up in the mountains of Colorado.
- Website:
- http://www.leftoversalmon.com/
- Facebook:
- http://www.facebook.com/leftoversalmon