Great Job is folk / bluegrass band from Tucson, Arizona. Re-listening to their performance after seeing them led to the realization that they may be playing music as a bluegrass band but everything they play was of a rhythm that was either rock, punk, or in some cases hip-hop electro- citing the MIA cover of Paper Planes. It felt like Great Job could very well translate any song into a bluegrass sounding tune.  They covered a few other songs that I couldn’t quite identify the origin of (I feel like in between their third-to-last and second-to-last song that I heard part of a Thanksgiving solo). There’s a silly idea that I have; they are a folk / bluegrass band on tour (since there’s more overhead involved with amps and such) but at home, in their practice space, they are secretly a thrash-punk-electro band. Just that they know if they show their true powers to the world, it would be too great and overwhelming.

Great Job did a… great job of having fun playing and joking with the room. They’re cover song renditions were brilliant too. I wanted to hear more cover songs, I’m sure they had plenty in their repertoire and if they would have had more time to play they could have pulled out a few more. Perhaps a Talking Heads cover?

They’re really nice people, they’re fun, courteous, and they don’t mind playing in a really cold house. For a few of the bands member, this show was their first in Seattle and the band did their part of describing the difference between the desert climate of Arizona to that of what’s here in the Northwest.

This recording was also recorded on the same evening as Spencer Owen and Ben Barnett.