Americana/Folksy Thread

Thanks for that. BTW did you read where Rhiannon Giddens won a MacArthur Fellowship? Impressive.

 

I didn’t. Have your heard the Kronos Quartet album Folk Songs from this year? Really good. She has some songs on it along with Natalie Merchant and a couple of others.

EDIT: haha! I just saw that I already posted about that album a few posts back

 

Anyone here listen to The Sadies?

Kurt Vile raved about them in an NPR interview and the track they played was great. I need to get some more of their stuff in hand...

 

Haven’t listened to them yet but saw them on Apple Music recently. Must have a new album out.

 

The Sadies, or the Weepies?
I heard some stuff about the Weepies on the local station....my wife immediately wanted their stuff:

 

Haha no. I meant what I said.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sadies

 

Thanks...I found them. really good stuff!

 

I never really got into them but it's cool they're still together. Sometimes a band that doesn't click for you will really hit the mark later on (I was like wtf when I first heard Tom Waits but now I love a lot of his stuff) so there's still hope. Richmond Fontaine is the band from that alt-country era that held up the best for me.

 

Yeah, I'm buying that album on your reccomend.

 

I hope you saw that it was 50% off at Nonesuch the other day!

 

Oh, of course I didn't. Are you doing vinyl or cd?

 

I do everything digital to my PC because I’m moving overseas soon. So I buy CD’s and rip them but for the Nonesuch sale the other day I bought a couple of albums as FLAC download.

 

Maybe they’ll do another sale on BF this week.

 

Scored this album at Goodwill for a dollar when I stumbled across someone's donated americana CD collection. This first tune gave me chills. Sounds so good through the HD650's.

 

BTW, the CD's I bought at Goodwill that day are mostly now available in my free cd's for friends thread.

 

Thats ironic, i was just listening to that yesterday, a fantastic album. Dan Tyminski has a great voice in his own right, it really adds to the texture of the album that he fronts the vocals on a few songs. If you didnt know, he was George Clooney's singing voice on 'O Brother Where Art Thou'.

 

For some quality indy folk Christmas music check out the Oh Hellos Family Christmas Album.

 

One of the CD's I got from that Goodwill that had all the indy folk was a Trampled by Turtles live CD. The presence of this track was what attracted me as I was a huge Pixies fan in HS and college.