Entertainment For Lively Minds
Fictitious Weirdy Beardies !!!
I was prompted to write this because of the flashing banner ^ above.
The Great Lake Swimmers eh?
The Besnard Lakes
Young Mountain
etc. etc. etc.
It's like the current preponderance of coffee shops on our high streets...it's just smacks of phoney posturing.
Lot's of Plaid, Beards, Home made instruments, recording in shacks etc.
It reeks of marketing.
It's like The Band meets Neil Young meets Grunge.
Should I be so cynical? Don't get me wrong I've been a fan of Iron and Wine and Banhart, Vetiver etc. for about 8 years ...
Here's some phoney names for weirdy beardy nature bands.
The Queequeg Rowers
The Griddle and the Boy
High Cedars
The Spring Melt
Arondiak
Bouganville Carpets
The tenon-saw Glades
Gossamer Highland Travellers
Any more?
- More from spinoza013.
- Login or register to post comments
-
Do you mean The Decemberists freeby banner
or are you looking at an older banner?
The banner changes apparently :)
It was for "The Great Lake Swimmers - Lost Channels"
I just thought that was pushing it too far.
My snap judgement is that most of these bands are Ivy-league drop outs that have read too much Ralph Waldo Emerson and Herman Melville. But I'll be wrong of course.
.
I don't know any of these bands
but I'll say it now. I preferred their earlier stuff...
Yeah, they're not as good as they used to be
I saw them in that pub, oh you know the one. Yeah, with that other lot supporting.
me too
though I think I prefer the shimmering soundscapes of the Larch Risers's sophomore outing to the widescreen dystopia of None More Holy's "Rust, Dust,Bones or Bust".
Unlike some they seem almost apologetic for their use of the doo-wop harmonic trope unlike stablemates Kaspar's Original Britches on "Hurt that Winter".
Or the reprisal..
.. of the jug as bass accompaniment on their version of lost Trad. song " The Pine Martin's Lament " though I find the use of African thumb piano slightly incongruous.
Having said all that..
.. you really should check out
The Jeremiah Johnsons "I've seen the City" [2008, Gingham Creek records ]
I blame Iron and Wine
Or Bonnie "Prince" Billy.
Hell, they all sound the same to me.
(And I rather like BPB, which is at least a relief.)
Burn Banhart might be a useful motto, tho'
I'll help you fetch the logs
- how about Sufjan?
Mmm
Newsom, J, while we're at it, once she has shaved off that full beard. Bon Iver is but a cinder away.
I'm a sucker for all this
Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver, Decemberists etc. If an artist sounds like he's got a beard and might have once stayed in a shack in the wilderness (preferably alone) then I'm on board. What this says about me I don't know, though I feel that it is perhaps a slightly more middle-aged version of my teenage crusty-folk obession, when anything even remotely Levellers-esque was enough to get me barn-dancing.
Some possible names for your collection:
The Willow
Corn Tassle Waving
Revelry in the Gloaming
Larkrise and Mist
Great stuff !! :
as Louis Atmstrong once said "All music's folk music... I ain't never heard a horse sing no song "
You should watch
Jeremiah Johnson
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jeremiah-Johnson-DVD-Robert-Redford/dp/B00004CX8...
£3
if not seen already....you'll love it ... that and "The Hired Hand" ...especially "Mr Tambourine man " Bruce Langhornes soundtrack ( took me 2 years to track down a copy )
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Soundtrack-Hired-Hand-Bruce-Langhorne/dp/B000PHX...
Mr Ed
did backing vocals on The Tree Elliots "Your Love Feels Like Lichen" which opens up the the song-cycle "Moist Arborial" on their quietly stunning debut "The Moss Time & Other Stories". A grower.