Greensky Bluegrass took advantage of Ghost Light’s talent pool this weekend during their two-night support slot at the Mission Ballroom in Denver, welcoming Tom Hamilton and Holly Bowling for sit-ins on Friday and Saturday, respectively.

After Greensky bookended their first set of the weekend with “The Four” and “Stop That Train,” the band sank into their second half with throwback track “The Reverend” (off 2008’s Five Interstates).

Later, Tom Hamilton dipped his toes into the Allman Brothers Band songbook to jam with GSBG on a rockin’, twanged-out “Ain’t Wastin’ Time No More,” before sticking around to close set two with If Sorrows Swim standout “Kerosene.”

The next evening, after Ghost Light offered cuts off their 2019 debut Best Kept Secrets, keyboardist Holly Bowling got in on the fun for a significant portion of their second set.

After sharing a fist-bump with GSBG dobroist Anders Beck, Bowling jammed on “Fixin’ to Ruin,” “Windsheild” and a “What You Need” (complete with vibraslap from tour manager Guido Batista) that bled into the Grateful Dead’s “Cassidy.”

Bowling drew her sit-in to an end with a set-closing “Leap Year,” and GSBG encored their final evening in Denver solo with their own “Wings For Wheels.”

Nodding to the name of the venue, the band wrote afterwards, “Mission accomplished!”

To read Relix‘s recent feature on Ghost Light – “A Ghost is Born” – click here.

To read Relix‘s recent feature on Greensky Bluegrass – “Courage For The Road” – click here.

Check out both evenings’ setlists, view photos (via GSBG on FB) and watch clips of Bowling’s sit in, via YouTuber Kyle Isaac, below:

Greensky Bluegrass
Dec. 7, 2019
Mission Ballroom, Denver

Set I: The Four, Train Junkie, Can’t Make Time, Whitehouse Blues, Do It Alone, Living Over, New Barns, Blood Sucking F(r)iends, Stop That Train

Set II: Reverend, Clinch Mountain Backstep, Cathedral Eyes, Worried About the Weather, I Wish I Didn’t Know > Everybody Wants to Rule the World, Before Bring Out Your Dead > Bring Out Your Dead, Ain’t Waisting Time No More^, Kerosene^

Enc: Past My Prime

Notes:
^with Tom Hamilton

Greensky Bluegrass
Dec. 8, 2019
Mission Ballroom, Denver

Set I: Hit Parade of Love, Handguns, Don’t Lie, Luckiest Man, Take Cover, Broken Highways, Run or Die

Set II: Do Harm, Better Off, Jaywalking> Courage for the Road, Fixin to Ruin*, Windshield *, What you Need *$ > Cassidy *, Leap Year *

Enc: Wings for Wheels

Notes:
*with Holly Bowling
$with Guido Batista

Holly Bowling on “Fixin’ to Ruin”:

Holly Bowling on “What You Need”> “Cassidy”: