{"id":3548,"date":"2011-08-21T07:33:13","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T14:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=3548"},"modified":"2011-08-21T07:33:57","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T14:33:57","slug":"the-greencards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/08\/the-greencards\/","title":{"rendered":"THE GREENCARDS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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THE GREENCARDS<\/h1>\n

A devoted fan following helped inspire and finance a new album, brick by brick<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Being a bluegrass band in\u00a0Australia isn\u2019t exactly a lucrative profession. Ask the Greencards\u2019 mandolin player Kym Warner how they dealt with that dilemma, and he offers an obvious answer. \u201cWell, we\u2019re here, aren\u2019t we?\u201d In this case, \u201chere\u201d is Nashville, where Warner and Greencards co-founder, singer and bassist Carol Young, have chosen to call home for the last several years. It\u2019s also where we find the amiable Aussie only days before embarking on a series of summer-festival dates touting The Brick Album<\/em>, the band\u2019s\u00a0fifth and latest release.<\/p>\n

The new album is characteristically diverse, blurring barriers between contemporary and traditional sounds. \u201cLuckily, we have a fan base that doesn\u2019t require us to fit into any particular genre,\u201d Warner says. \u201cAt the same time, we tried to put together a collection of material that sounds unified. Hopefully that\u2019s what we achieved.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Greencards are no strangers to achievement. Warner\u2019s dad Trey was a renowned bluegrass guitarist, and he followed in those footsteps by netting the Australian National Bluegrass Mandolin Championship trophy four years running. In 2003 Warner and fellow bluegrass prodigy Young made the move to America, where they formed the Greencards in Austin with fiddler Eamon McLoughlin. He left in 2009, after the group\u2019s move to Nashville.<\/p>\n

The Brick Album<\/em> features the group\u2019s newest recruits, award-winning guitarist Carl Miner and fiddle virtuoso Tyler Andal, as well as guest appearances from vets Sam Bush and Vince Gill. It also marks the band\u2019s first entirely independent offering. Fans financed the album and in return got to see their names inscribed on the bricks pictured on the album sleeve. \u201cWhen we launched the campaign, we didn\u2019t know if anyone was actually going to jump on it,\u201d Warner admits. \u201cThat was the scariest part. But fortunately, people really got behind it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Making its new music in such an innovative fashion has brought the band satisfaction on several levels. \u201cIt\u2019s great that we could acknowledge our fans\u2019 role in making this record,\u201d Warner says. \u201cIt\u2019s also quite humbling. These people donated their money before they even heard the music. We had this thing hanging over us. We thought, \u2018Wow, we better come up with something good!\u2019 And that\u2019s what we set out to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Lee Zimmerman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

THE GREENCARDS A devoted fan following helped inspire and finance a new album, brick by brick Being a bluegrass band in\u00a0Australia isn\u2019t exactly a lucrative profession. Ask the Greencards\u2019 mandolin player Kym Warner how they dealt with that dilemma, and he offers an obvious answer. \u201cWell, we\u2019re here, aren\u2019t we?\u201d In this case, \u201chere\u201d is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[1636,10156,2437],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3548"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3551,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548\/revisions\/3551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}