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What else do you listen to?
Posted: Wednesday, March 3, 2010 - 14:10
Since seeing The Avett Brothers on Austin City Limits they are practically ALL I listen to. I’m starting to feel like a crazy virtual stalker and need to widen my selection. What do you listen to besides the Avett Brothers.
I'm not really musically educated. I just got an IPod for Christmas and thought I wouldn’t use it. Now I keep it with me everywhere. I watch less TV and do more homework when I’m listening, so this particular brand of crazy might be a good thing. 
Music I used to listen to; Brandi Carlile, Joe Pug, James McMurtry, John Prine, Willy Porter, Amos Lee. I have to thank my husband for saving me from Top 40. He keeps up with what’s good, not popular.
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Pretty much just TAB, to be honest. When I'm not listening to them, it's probably Death Cab for Cutie and others similar to them here and there. TAB is in their own genre for me and I'm perfectly happy with that.
My current favorites: Langhorne Slim, The Cave Singers, Deer Tick, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Band of Horses, and Or, the Whale.
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There have been a few other topics asking the same thing...you should definitely search the board history in the general discussion forum. Me personally? Check out Holy Ghost Tent Revival, Langhorn Slim, Old Crow Medicine Show, The Everybodyfields (unfortunately broken up, but still good), and my brain just stopped working, so I've suddenly forgotten everything else I like, but I'm sure you will find a LONG list of suggestions if you search the boards.
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"Free is not your right to choose, it's answering what's asked of you, to give the love you find until it's gone."
Thanks, I didn't think to search. I'll do that.
The other option to Searching the boards would be to get on Pandora and Last.fm and create an Avett Brothers Station...
A few not metioned:
The Devil Makes Three
Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside
The Wood Brothers
I like most of the above (haven't heard all of them),
add the following to your list:
Carolina Chocolate Drops
Paleface
South Memphis String Band
Amelia's Mechanics
there's more, but you've got enough to keep you busy for a while!
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Old Crow Medicine Show
J Tillman
City and Colour
Dolorean
Fionn Regan
Frontier Ruckus
Great Lake Swimmers
Horse Feathers
Bon Iver
Iron and Wine
Joe Purdy
Ken Reaume (aka VIVIV)
Matt Butcher
Matt Pryor
Smalltown Folk
Tim Bluhm-(Solo)
Trampled By Turtles
The New Amsterdams
and Sufjan with only his banjo or acoustic, I don't like that electronic garbage he does.
Just to name a few I listen to.
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The first 4 bands listed here are all from the same area in England. I cannot state how much I absolutely love them… I mean it… Mumford and Noah especially… I listen to them daily. Without hesitation, I would recommend buying those two. I listen to an insane amount of music all day (Info Sec nerd who sits at a desk all day), so this is just very small portion of my nearly daily obsession.
Mumford & Sons
Noah and the Whale (Peaceful album is better of the 2 imo)
Johnny Flynn
Laura Marling
Blind Pilot
Ben Sollee (Dear Companion is great)
Langhorne Slim
Paleface
Connor Oberst
Bright Eyes
M Ward
Monsters of Folk
The Kooks
Band of Horses
Okkervil River
...off the top of my head... I'm sure I'm leaving some fav's out
Avetts
Langhorn Slim
The Auctioneers
Town Mountain
Blind Melon
The Wood Brothers
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
MGMT
The Raconteurs
Ryan Adams
etc.....
Really? Wilco hasn't been mentioned yet?
Oh, and Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros... that's the real deal. Check them out if you haven't yet.
Matt the Electrician has a new album out that is pretty damn sweet, too. http://www.matttheelectrician.com/
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I'll give you some links to check out of some of my fave's, I'll give you what I consider good "introductory" songs:
First Langhorne Slim, between him and the Avetts I hardly listen to anything else. I'd recommend Restless, it's the first I ever heard and I fell in love. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElwMp0qK1xc
Old Crow Medicine Show - 'Wagon Wheel' - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gX1EP6mG-E
Blitzen Trapper - "Furr" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqtlcHiSHTE
Magnetic Zeros - "Home" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjFaenf1T-Y
Magnetic Fields - "You Must Be Out of Your Mind" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqtlcHiSHTE
Felice Brothers - "Frankie's Gun" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcVku6bFe-U&feature=related (live version, not the best but you get the idea)
April Smith - "Colors" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQohpZ2pVus
The Wood Brothers - "Postcards From Hell" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEU[Slur Deleted]7o5Ao&feature=fvw
Here's a few to start. Hope you find something you like and be sure to let me know if there's anything here that strikes your fancy.
Avetts, Langhorne, Iron and wine, Death cab for cutie, Fleet Foxes, Band of Horses, Elliott Smith, Ryan Adams, Tom petty, Johnny Cash, Mumford & son's (newly addiction)
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Delta Spirit
Low Anthem
Dawes
Corey Chisel and the Wandering Sons
The Mumlers
Wye Oak
Fruitbats
Felice Brothers
The Duke and the King
Citay
May Erlewine
Elliott Brood
Dr Dog
John Doe and the Sadies
Phosphorescent
The Jayhawks
Thao with the Get Down Stay Down
Langhorne Slim
Wooden Birds
The Floorbirds
Sonny and the Sunsets
Thanks to the MULTIPLE threads regarding this topic, I've been turned on to some great tunes.
Always got to mention Hank 3.
Hoots & Hellmouth (who rocked Charlotte the hell out last night, btw).
Been listening to that old Desaparecidos album, "Read Music, Speak Spanish" (The guy from Bright Eye's side project),
Van Morrison's "Astral Weeks" (the 2nd one),
Carolina Chocolate Drop's "Genuine Negro Jig"
Slim & HGTR, of course
If you're into the heavy stuff, Weedeater's "God Luck, Good Speed"
Some Derek Trucks Band bootlegs.
The Low Anthem's "OMG, Charlie Darwin"
And David Childers, "The Backshop Live"....great, stripped down tunes from a local legend.
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"A city man'll tell ya, "Do what it takes to stay on top,
But my Pa's a country man, and that's what I'll be 'til I drop." -Margo
Elliott Smith
Joshua James
Monsters of Folk
M. Ward
Darcie Miner
Lissie
Audra Mae
Dave Matthews
Ryan Adams
Brandi Carlile
Jeff Buckley
Cory Chisel and the Wandering Sons
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I’ll come back home without my things/
‘Cause the clothes I wore out there/
I will not wear around you
My Top Played and Recently Played (minus TAB) are:
Andrew Bird
Bon Iver
Grizzly Bear
Dr. Dog
Frontier Ruckus
The Felice Brothers
Langhorne Slim
Mumford and Sons
Jessica Lea Mayfield (I had With Blasphemy So Heartfelt on repeat for four hours last night while studying for midterms)
Bombadil
Death Cab for Cutie
The Decemberists
the everybodyfields
A Fine Frenzy
Fleet Foxes
Gillian Welch
Ingrid Michaelson
Jack's Mannequin
The Low Anthem
Matt & Kim
Sea Wolf
Blitzen Trapper
Greenland Is Melting
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"I've never been too good at reading in between the lines."
Crowfield
I think I'm gonna be alone on this, but the three bands I listen to the most are:
The Avett Brothers
Metallica
Radiohead
Jessica Lea Mayfield
OCMS
Rolling Stones
J.D. Crowe and the New South
Beatles
Forgot to add Bobby Long. He's awesome.
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I’ll come back home without my things/
‘Cause the clothes I wore out there/
I will not wear around you
Not necessarily new, but Man, I'm really digging Devendra Banhart lately
Little Yellow Spider
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbPIOwxCIg4
Fooling
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAJT_4CINJM
Carmensita
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_QAPjtO2cA
(with Natalie Portman)
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"One Day, One Day... One Day at a Time"
the low anthem
son volt
big head todd
robert palmer/allison krause
black crowes
iron maiden
select pearl jam
Maiden rocks! and I love that you don't discriminate with them, but pearl jam has to meet some standards, perfect!
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Josh Ritter
Phosphorescent
Willie Nelson
Vandaveer
Neil Young
Emmylou Harris
Cold War Kids
Great Lake Swimmers
Sally Ford and the Sound Outside
Gillian Welch/David Rawlings
Tift Merrit
Neko Case
Ray Lamontagne
No particular order to those, they are just good (or at least I think so)
Don't know if anyone has mentioned "Local Natives" or not. They sort of remind me of 'Fleet Foxes". Some people compare them to "Arcade Fire" They are quite good, IMO. They do a fantastic cover of Talking Heads, "Warning Sign"----happy listening everyone!
here's a few i've been listening to lately. possed by paul james, those poor bastards, and tim barry
sage francis
atmosphere
the beatles
muddy waters
the black keys
woody guthrie
arlo guthrie
peete seeger
avett brothers
those are just a few of the artists i listen to on a semi regular basis
I see a lot of our faves listed above but here are a couple of odd but fantastic groups: Belle and Sebastian and the Welcome Wagon.
Have you been to the links page at tablive.net yet? There are links to over 50 bands. All killer - No filler.
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Levi Lowrey. sorry for all the links but it will be worth it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPSf6PknwNw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyj4LSdoUR0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U33bcn9kNI
Joe McGuiness - now opening for the wood brothers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMuXSSk3v_4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olZ-osumZns
Shawn Mullins - this song made me realize he had more than what was played on top 40 in the late 90's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NyxrveJYcc
The Punch Brothers - this was the first song by them, that i had heard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejpb-zKu1NI
most of the others have been mentioned, slim, hgtr, wood brothers exc.
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PROB OBV FROM MY NAME BUT DMB IS MY FAVORITE BAND FOR 6 YRS NOW RIGHT ABOVE TAB!!! ACCIDENTLLY POSTED THIS VIDEO ON THE WRONG FORUM AND MADE SOME PEOPLE MAD BUT HOPEFULLY SOMEONE HERE ENJOYS IT!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay5kvPzvvTc
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M. Ward, M. Ward, M.Ward, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm M. Ward
and of course all those in close relation......... Connor Oberst, Bright Eyes, Monsters of Folk, She and Him
Did I say M. Ward?