M Shanghai String Band - Up from the Ground Below album download

All songs recorded live on May 10th, 2004 in the dining room of the M Shanghai Bistro and Den in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Mastered @ Sterling Sound.

The M SHANGHAI STRING BAND of Brooklyn, New York, started in 2002 as a monthly show in the basement of a local chinese restaurant, the M Shanghai Bistro. Locals began to call the band 'M Shanghai'. Their debut album, 'Up From the Ground Below' (20 songs recorded in one day in the restaurant's dining room) set the mission in motion: timeless original music played with a sense of abandon, captured completely live. The banjos spit fire, the acoustics soothe the soul, and the vocals tell honest tales

The M SHANGHAI STRING BAND of Brooklyn, New York, started in 2002 as a monthly show in the basement of a local chinese restaurant, the M Shanghai Bistro. Locals began to call the band "M Shanghai". Their debut album, Up From the Ground Below (20 songs recorded in one day in the restaurant’s dining room) set the mission in motion: timeless original music played with a sense of abandon, captured completely live. With an adventurous take on Americana, the MSSB are not easily classified

The M SHANGHAI STRING BAND of Brooklyn, New York, started in 2002 as a monthly show in the basement of a local chinese restaurant, the M Shanghai Bistro. Locals began to call the band M Shanghai.

By M Shanghai String Band. Listen to Up From The Ground Below now. Listen to Up From The Ground Below in full in the this site app. Play on this site.

The M SHANGHAI STRING BAND is a massive, all-acoustic band performing beautiful and spunky ORGINAL tunes in the traditional country style. Someone once called us the "Earth, Wind and Fire" of Americana music. That may or may not be true. This acoustic-culinary combination was too special not to repeat, and the band (named after the restaurant) was born. Their debut album "Up From the Ground Below" was recorded in the restaurant's dining room. Its twenty songs were captured completely live in one day. At their CD release party, the MSSB played four live sets to a standing room only crowd. Brooklyn's best kept secret was out. "The banjos spit fire, the acoustics soothe the soul, and the vocals tell honest tales.

This acoustic-culinary combination was too special not to repeat, and the band (named after the restaurant) was born. "The banjos spit fire, the acoustics soothe.