Cobble Hillbillies

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Born out of Brooklyn in 2003, the Cobble Hillbillies play energetic urban bluegrass with a neighborhood feel. The young band is comprised of six friends, transplanted from Quebec, North Carolina, Missouri, upstate New York, Chicago, and Oregon, but all irrevocably drawn to the raw, vigorous honesty of bluegrass.

While the Cobble Hillbillies love to sing traditional songs that tell the stories of an earlier America, they also write powerful new music, steeped in the bluegrass style but undeniably vibrant and original. The themes are timeless: broken romance, fateful travels far from home, and the lonesome wait for that F train to come down the track. Throughout are soulful three-part harmonies, sparkling melodies, and scorching licks from banjo, fiddle, harmonica and mandolin.

As Time Out New York observed when it named the band a “New Essential” in 2004, the Cobble Hillbillies play music that is “sweeping and refreshingly void of irony.” Make no mistake, the boys have razor-sharp chops, ingenuity and an evident respect for the tradition, but what sets the Cobble Hillbillies apart is their infectious exuberance, down-home friendliness, and lack of pretension.

Folks who come out to see the Hillbillies’ shows can expect to enjoy a night of stirring music connected by authenticity, informality, and innovation to a tradition stretching back into the early 20th Century. The band creates living songs that have integrity but do not ossify the bluegrass genre. The Cobble Hillbillies recognize the heart of bluegrass has always been its social quality and its soul lies in its capacity for personal _expression. Come on out and make friends.