Members tbry Posted July 5, 2010 Members Share Posted July 5, 2010 What acoustic music would you buy on iTunes with a 25.00 gift cert..Saw someone mention Wilco and Old Crow Med show...those are good choices...any others you would buy and listen to on a regular basis? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members poppytater Posted July 5, 2010 Members Share Posted July 5, 2010 All James Taylor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pinchegordo Posted July 5, 2010 Members Share Posted July 5, 2010 Jim CroceJohnny CashLodoun Wainwright IIITom WaitsJunior BrownPaul SimonTownes VanZandt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jimmy Chaos Posted July 5, 2010 Members Share Posted July 5, 2010 Laura Veirs - Where Are You DrivingThe Decemberists - The Hazards Of Love 4 (The Drowning)Colin Meloy - Red Right AnkleBelle & Sebastian - Is It Wicked Not To CareThe Shins - Young Pilgrims Best 5 bucks you'll ever spend! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tbry Posted July 5, 2010 Author Members Share Posted July 5, 2010 All James Taylor Well I've done the Taylor listen for years...I was thinking somebody from the last 10 years or so...someone different and younger maybe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tbry Posted July 5, 2010 Author Members Share Posted July 5, 2010 Jim CroceJohnny CashLodoun Wainwright III...Which one song?Tom Waits....Same...one songJunior BrownPaul SimonTownes VanZandt...One of his best.......which one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tbry Posted July 5, 2010 Author Members Share Posted July 5, 2010 Laura Veirs - Where Are You DrivingThe Decemberists - The Hazards Of Love 4 (The Drowning)Colin Meloy - Red Right AnkleBelle & Sebastian - Is It Wicked Not To CareThe Shins - Young PilgrimsBest 5 bucks you'll ever spend! I'm gonna do a sneek preview on iTunes for these... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted July 5, 2010 Members Share Posted July 5, 2010 I don't know if you'd like her, but I've really been won over by Laura Veirs, too. (She's easy to hear/see on YouTube.) It's so unusual for me to find contemporary pop I like that I'm continually pleased to find myself enjoying her stuff when it comes up in my everyday playlist. Funny thing was, first tune I heard from her, maybe last year some time, had some noticeably awkward vocal retuning and I almost didn't bother listening again... But now I have pretty much all her stuff in that daily playlist (it's up to 4000 songs or so, so it's not like her four or five albums come up every other tune or anything). I think, however, that I nuked the one tune with the obvious A-T. That sound just bugs the holy heck out of me. (Makes it hard to watch my favorite musical TV show, Glee, I gotta tell you. ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tbry Posted July 5, 2010 Author Members Share Posted July 5, 2010 I don't know if you'd like her, but I've really been won over by Laura Veirs, too. (She's easy to hear/see on YouTube.)It's so unusual for me to find contemporary pop I like that I'm continually pleased to find myself enjoying her stuff when it comes up in my everyday playlist. So far she has a bit of appeal...different for sure...July Flame sounds good... The other choices so far haven't really spun my prop but maybe the Decembrist...Still, Wilco and OCMS are the best I've heard of recent vintage. Yeah, I've listened to several of Laura Veirs now...Her songs are good, I like her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted July 5, 2010 Members Share Posted July 5, 2010 I'm definitely a Wilco fan, too. Not always so acoustic -- but then, neither is Veirs. Ah... I got one! The Ditty-Bops. Very acoustic oriented, quirky, intelligent songs, fine singing and playing from the two girls and their back up band, an arch, retro-forward hipster feel... I find it very appealing. Some of their songs crack me up. Some really grab me... On the male side, a guy with at great voice and a mostly acoustic, roots country feel, is Otis Gibbs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chicken Monkey Posted July 5, 2010 Members Share Posted July 5, 2010 Todd Snider is always fun, especially if you can pick-and-choose tracks and avoid his overreaching ballads/political diatribes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tbry Posted July 5, 2010 Author Members Share Posted July 5, 2010 Todd Snider is always fun, especially if you can pick-and-choose tracks and avoid his overreaching ballads/political diatribes. Give me two or three songs you like... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Greymuzzle Posted July 5, 2010 Members Share Posted July 5, 2010 Modest MouseMonsters of FolkDave Rawlings MachineBonnie Prince BillyChris PurekaPeter MulveyKathleen EdwardsKarine Polwartandandandandand:thu: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted July 5, 2010 Members Share Posted July 5, 2010 I was gonna say Modest Mouse, too, because I really love a lot of their stuff -- and they do use acoustic guitars and -- crucially -- banjo -- but then, overall, the way it all comes together, while certainly folk and folk rock influenced, is pretty post-modern. (And then there's the shameful squashing of their mixes. Although, as I recall, their latest backed way off on that front. But the one before -- eeyow! I wanted to listen but I think I made it all the way through twice -- but it was torture most of the way through.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chicken Monkey Posted July 5, 2010 Members Share Posted July 5, 2010 Give me two or three songs you like... Beer Run and Conservative, Christian, Whitebread Republican, Straight, White, American Male are probably his two biggest "hits". Statistician's Blues and Doublewide Blues are both good. I'm blanking. I'll do some research. EDIT: "Tension" and "I Can't Complain" are both good, too. Gillian Welch is another must-have--I saw someone mentioned the David Rawlings Machine, which is kind of the inverse band to GW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pinchegordo Posted July 5, 2010 Members Share Posted July 5, 2010 Tom Waits-Tango til they're soreLodoun Wainwright -Grey in LA Townes Vanzandt-Pancho & Lefty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members glemnar Posted July 5, 2010 Members Share Posted July 5, 2010 In a way acoustic, but doesn't really have much guitar. (Acoustic part is technically banjo) but it's piano based- Dust Bowl Dance - Mumford And Sons Best 99c you'll ever spend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members carguy Posted July 5, 2010 Members Share Posted July 5, 2010 I heard a Honda (car) commercial recently that had a catchy tune, and I googled to find out it is by a chick named Ellem. It's called "Inside Still Beats". If I had a $25 iTunes credit, I would probably use $9.99 of it to purchase her album. [YOUTUBE]aa__YtdM_A4[/YOUTUBE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Stackabones Posted July 5, 2010 Members Share Posted July 5, 2010 The Swell Season -- Falling Slowly, Once, In These Arms The Frames -- Lay Me Down Django -- Minor Swing, Djangology, Swing 42 Low Anthem -- Charlie Darwin, To Ohio Blind Willie Johnson -- Dark Was The Night Cold Was The Ground Lightin' Hopkins -- just about anything (really) Leo Kottke -- Vaseline Machine Gun Iron & Wine -- Southern Anthem Josh Ritter -- You Don't Make It Easy, Come And Find Me (acoustic only versions are available, but the original tracs have acoustic) Carla Bruni -- Quelqu'un m'a dit Tryo -- Monsieur Bibendum Triton -- L'isle Maurice Ry Cooder -- Fool For A Cigarette/Feelin' Good Townes Van Zandt -- Rake, If I Needed You Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chicken Monkey Posted July 5, 2010 Members Share Posted July 5, 2010 Oh--and the Avett Brothers! Shame and Paranoia in Bb would be good starting points. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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