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THE GREENCARDS
Acoustic / Alternative / Bluegrass

FASCINATION' out now!



AUSTIN, Texas
United States

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   THE GREENCARDS: General Info
Member Since10/12/2005
Band Websitewww.thegreencards.com
Band Members
Carol Young (AUSTRALIA) - vocals/bass. Kym Warner (AUSTRALIA) - vocals/mandolin/bouzouki. Eamon McLoughlin (ENGLAND) - vocals/violin/viola/cello

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Influences
Newgrass Revival, Patty Griffin, Tim O'Brien, Lyle Lovett, David Gilmour, Mollie O'Brien, Robert Earl Keen, Chris Thile, Bryan Sutton, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Sam Bush, Alison Krauss, Buddy Miller, Jerry Douglas, Mark O'Connor, Bonnie Raitt, Tom Petty, Beck and loads more!
Record LabelSugar Hill Records
Type of LabelIndie


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   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Jul 7 2009 8:00P
Broomfield Auditorium **POSTPONED** Broomfield CO
Jul 10 2009 7:00P
Big Horn Mountain Festival (Stage 1) Buffalo WY
Jul 11 2009 1:15P
Big Horn Mountain Festival (Stage 1) Buffalo WY
Jul 12 2009 2:00P
Founders Title Festival Snowbird UT
Jul 17 2009 8:00P
Master Musicians Festival Somerset KY
Jul 30 2009 8:00P
Rhythm and Brews Chattanooga TN
Jul 31 2009 8:00P
Crimson Moon Dahlonega GA
Aug 1 2009 7:30P
Bluegrass Underground - Volcano Room McMinnville TN
Aug 2 2009 7:00P
Mountain Stage - Paramount Arts Center Ashland KY
Aug 3 2009 6:45P
Woodsongs Radio Hour (woodsongs.com) Lexington KY
Aug 5 2009 8:00P
The Ark Ann Arbor MI
Aug 7 2009 6:00P
Fraze Pavilion @ Lincoln Park w/Robert Earl Keen Kettering OH
Aug 8 2009 5:00P
Bluegrass In The Park Henderson KY
Aug 9 2009 4:00P
Lollapolooza Chicago IL
Aug 21 2009 8:00P
Newgrass Festival Oakland KY
Sep 6 2009 1:00P
Four Corners Folk Festival Pagosa Springs CO
Sep 12 2009 8:00P
Progress Energy Centre For Performing Arts Raleigh NC
Sep 18 2009 5:00P
Walnut Valley Festival Winfield KS
Sep 19 2009 5:00P
Walnut Valley Festival Winfield KS
Sep 24 2009 8:00P
Kent Stage Kent OH
Sep 25 2009 8:00P
Dominican University w/ Sara Watkins Chicago IL
Sep 26 2009 8:00P
Maintenance Shop Ames IA
Oct 1 2009 8:00P
Sengelmann Hall Schulenburg TX
Oct 2 2009 6:00P
Austin City Limits Festival Austin TX
Oct 3 2009 7:30P
The Mucky Duck Houston TX
Oct 3 2009 9:30P
The Mucky Duck Houston TX
Nov 6 2009 8:00P
Riverhawk Festival Brooksville FL
Nov 7 2009 8:00P
Riverhawk Festival Brooksville FL

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   About THE GREENCARDS
You could call it an attraction…a curiosity…an anticipation of surprise and delight. But there’s a better word to describe what the music of The Greencards inspires. Fascination. If you’ve followed this multinational threesome over these past five years, you know the feeling. From their personal histories through the content of their work, grounded in deep musical tradition but elevated by breathtaking technique and conceptual adventurousness, there is ample reason for interest … for excitement … For Fascination. Now, with their Sugar Hill Records debut, it’s official. Fascination describes the essence of this band. It was, first of all, their fascination with American roots music – bluegrass especially – that drew singer/bassist Carol Young and multiple string-instrument master Kym Warner from Australia, and violinist/violist Eamon McLoughlin from the U.K., to Austin, Texas, where they began performing together, and later to their current home base in Nashville. That urge to challenge themselves, to test the limits of any established genre, guided them on their first three albums. It kept them focused as they accumulated awards and acclamations, from the Americana Music Award in 2006 for “Emerging Artist of the Year” through tours with Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson to last year’s “Best Country Instrumental Performance” Grammy nomination for Viridian in 2008. All of which leads to Fascination, the band’s most daring accomplishment to date. Meticulously crafted arrangements serve as springboards for exhilarating improvisations. Acoustic textures shimmer in the light of Jay Joyce’s innovative production. On a dozen tracks, a dozen vistas open: an urgent urban scene on “The Avenue,” a dreamy shadowland on “Three Four Time,” a fiddle-sweetened reverie on “Outskirts of Blue,” a hallucination, as much silence as substance, equal parts jazz, blues, and Pulp Fiction on “Into the Blue,” a blaze of virtuosity unleashed on “Little Siam,” a mesh of pizzicato pulses on the title track that sounds something like a reggae jam inside a grandfather clock. Complex and rich as Fascination is, the motivation behind it couldn’t be simpler. “We set out to make this music different from anything we did on our first three albums,” Young explains. “So we wrote accordingly. And we took much more time than we’d ever taken before. Normally, we start writing a couple of weeks before recording …” “…and this time, we took eight or nine months,” says Warner. Writing on the road, The Greencards rode an accelerating current of creativity. They produced more prolifically than ever and, more important, evolved their sound beyond anything they might have anticipated even just a few years ago. Almost apprehensively, they tried out some of this material at bluegrass festivals, beginning with the title track. “There’s nothing bluegrass about that song,” says Warner, laughing. “We played it live just two days after we wrote it, and I was really surprised at how well it was received.” “This older gentleman came up to our merchandise desk and asked specifically for ‘Fascination,’” adds Young. “He actually said to me, ‘Hey, I like what you guys are doing – even the weird stuff.’” (continued…) Armed with an array of bold new songs, and signed to Sugar Hill--whose support for innovative acoustic music is well established--The Greencards decided to relinquish the production role they had reserved for themselves on previous albums. Even bolder was their choice of Jay Joyce for that role – a producer of impeccable credentials but a relatively short track record at helming all-acoustic projects. “We’d heard all these great records that Jay had made with Patty Griffin, John Hiatt and so many artists we love,” Young says. “But how would he utilize the fiddle, cello, mandolin, bouzouki, and bass – the core of the band – without putting layers and electronic sounds on it? We were very pleasantly surprised at how he just wanted us to play the songs and let our instruments speak for themselves.” “Most of the people who’ve heard Fascination have said the sum of its parts is greater than the parts themselves,” Warner points out. “That’s exactly what we wanted from Jay. In the past we’ve played the tracks as a band and then revisited them, adding things here and there. With Jay, we did a song a day. We wouldn’t even look at another song until the next day. That was a great way to treat each song on its merits.” “Jay is very modern in his tastes,” says McLoughlin. “He wants to achieve new things. But his approach is also quite organic, so it’s an almost contradictory fusion of the traditional and the modern, and that keeps it real.” “Real” is just the beginning. Young, who lofted two singles as a solo artist to the top of the Australian country charts prior to leaving for the States, more than meets the demands of this varied repertoire. Warm and reassuring on “Water in the Well,” wistfully romantic on “Lover I Love the Best,” eloquent in interpreting the epic lyric to “Davey Jones,” her vocals intersect perfectly with the string wizardry of Warner, four-time winner of the Australian National Bluegrass Mandolin Championship, and McLoughlin’s violin, viola, and cello artistry, developed during gigs as a child with his father’s country band in London. These efforts don’t break down as simply as lead vocals and accompaniment. Rather, think of Fascination as a puzzle whose pieces form one varied but unified image, whose music speaks as one voice, directly to the heart. More than that, Fascination represents the band’s achievement of its primary goal, which is to draw from the roots while also advancing the possibilities of the music that inspires them, with each side of this equation nourishing the other. Just as important, it challenges The Greencards to maintain this process onstage and in its future visits to the studio, by raising the levels of what they expect from themselves. “We went into the studio on Fascination from Day One that this wasn’t The Greencards two years ago – this is us moving forward,” Warner insists. “The issue with us now is where that’s going to take us over the next year.” “We have so many new songs to play and a new approach to present to audiences,” Young says. “That gives us something to work for. But that also makes it so much more interesting.” Is it really just about interest, though? Not with The Greencards. Their future goes beyond that; from this point, it’s about Fascination. ==========================================================



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The Greencards Musical Roots

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Fascination

Fascination
2009
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Viridian

Viridian
2007
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Weather And Water

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And Water
2005
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Movin' On

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2003
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2009
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2007
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2005
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2003
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Jul 5 2009 5:47 PM

Hello! We've just added new tracks to our page! Come give them a listen and let us know what you think! Don't forget to check out our video as well! Thanks!
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Jul 4 2009 6:13 PM

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Jul 3 2009 4:48 PM

Hey whats up..
Hope u enjoy the music.
When u get a chance check out my new cd..

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Jul 3 2009 6:20 AM

please check out my new clip 'TWO WHEELS' now on CMC Foxtel.
You can request the track at
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Would love you to check it out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el_cDqHAqPA

Felicity
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Jul 2 2009 1:03 AM

So sad the Broomfield show got cancelled :(
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Jul 1 2009 3:57 AM

Thanks for adding us and hope to see you again soon!
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Jul 1 2009 12:09 AM

Hello!

Just wanted to say I TOTALLY enjoyed your show at Threadgill's on Friday night! You guys ROCK!

I wrote a review for my site. Check it out (www.icmdb.com)!

Mary
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Jun 29 2009 1:19 AM

Hey friend, I hope this comment finds you well.
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Jun 28 2009 5:17 PM

Thanks for the add!
- LG
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Jun 28 2009 11:54 AM

Hi from Australia. Hope all is well. Thanks for being a friend. Cheers, Adam
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Jun 27 2009 5:02 PM

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Jun 27 2009 11:33 AM

Just wanted to let you know I have some samples from my latest album on myspace and would love to here what you think. I had a blast recording it with some of the best in the industry, Like James Burton (Elvis Presley's lead Guitarist) along with many more. Please stop by and have a listen. Blessings Darin Warner
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Jun 26 2009 6:21 PM

thank you guys for an amazing show and the cd is awesome...peace and safe travels!
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Jun 26 2009 2:01 AM

CAROL AND GUYS, THANK YOU FOR THE ON-AIR TODAY. 35 YEARS IN RADIO, THE BEST LIVE IN-STUDIO EVER, YA'LL MADE ME GLAD TO BE ALIVE. Brett D. - KHYI-Dallas
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Jun 24 2009 1:35 AM

thanks for adding us!
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Jun 23 2009 11:27 PM

Love your music, wishing you continued success. Tom
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Jun 21 2009 4:03 AM

All good.
Dave
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Jun 18 2009 6:09 AM

Hey! Thanks for the ADD!!! Hope you enjoy the music!
-Loving Avery
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Jun 18 2009 12:27 AM

UGH! It's just that he picks the damnedest (I know it's not a word) times to take a nap. I am STARVING and I didn't plan on cooking because my dad gave us a gift certificate to go to Ruby Tuesday and we had plans to go. I tried to wake him up over an hour ago and he's still laying there. I'm moving on from annoyed to pissed off! anywayz, it went good. We got stuff for our wii. How was yours? know what sucks? that IM supposed to be the one that knows about "web-stuff" and your profile is better than mine? Maybe I should just let you take care of mine like mom does Dan's...ohh, that reminds me, speaking of mom; i finally got her to start taking those surveys online like i'm doing, cuz i know the extra money sure comes in handy. you should really try em. i mean, if i got mom to try it, psh, i can get anybody to, heh..i guess you'll have to type the link into internet explorer or whatever, but here it is: www. workforblingsurveys .com ... anyhow, I know we are both kinda like "woah" right now. But I just wanted to take a
second to remind you that you are Amazing!
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Jun 17 2009 8:41 AM

Thanks for the request! MOOD'z
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Jun 15 2009 6:42 AM

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Jun 14 2009 2:49 PM

hey
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stoping by to say whats up
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