Cobble Hillbillies
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The best kept secret in music

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"Time Out New York - New York Essentials - Brooklyn Bluegrass"

Time Out New York Issue 474: October 28–November 4, 2004
ESSENTIAL NEW YORK
THE NEW ESSENTIALS
Brooklyn Bluegrass
Walk down Court Street almost any night of the week and you can hear
them plucking their banjos and crooning about the F train. They are
Brooklyn's latest contribution to the indie scene—bluegrass musicians,
like Astrograss and the Cobble Hillbillies. Their music is sweet and
sweeping and refreshingly void of irony—except, of course, for the
fact that they're in New York.—DT
- Time Out New York


"Cobble Hillbillies in Columbia News Service article"

For full article:

http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/studentwork/cns/2004-03-15/489.asp

"At a recent Hillbillies show at Parkside Lounge in Manhattan's Lower East Side, a crowd of about 200 people included downtown hipsters, yuppies in polo shirts and one middle-aged woman in a flower-print blouse. The singalongs to such surprising numbers as a bluegrass version of "Movin' on Up," the theme song to the TV show "The Jeffersons," played on acoustic-only instruments fostered a bare-bones, communal atmosphere. In bluegrass, it is common for even the biggest stars to do "parking-lot picking" with fans after concerts." - Columbia University News Service


"Cobble Hillbillies featured on brooklyncountry.com"

Link:

http://brooklyncountry.com/performers/cobble_hillbillies.htm

Never mind that this six-piece band has the funniest Brooklyn-referencing name this side of Kings County Queens. Or that they’ve got the traditional bluegrass sound nailed down tight. These boys are just plain fun. Their string-centric three-part harmonies could be straight out of the Bill Monroe bible—that is, if Bill Monroe ever sang about riding the F Train. They bang out the tried ’n’ true styles with enough reverence to keep even the crankiest old traditionalist happy, yet manage to spice it up with enough smiling energy and big-city relevance to keep the Brooklyn country kids’ feet tapping. - www.brooklyncountry.com


Discography

Debut EP Available Now

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Bio

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, Ohio, 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 them 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 songs they perform and record 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.