David and I were watching Austin City Limits on PBS because Nickel Creek was going to be on. We had been reading about the show for a while so we were just waiting for the episode to air. It turned out their segment was the second half of the program, up first was a group we had not heard of before, The Avett Brothers. I was fixing dinner while they were playing and found the first song they played to be really catchy, it was "Down With the Shine." Any song where they sing about moonshine gets my thumbs up! Thankfully dinner was a quick fix, and I was able to give them my full attention. The sound was familiar but new. It made me think of Mumford and Sons (I love them). Their musical arrangements were beautiful-they have a cello player who was doing things with a cello I have never seen before. By the time they were into their last song, "Morning Song" I had tears in my eyes and knew I wanted to hear more. Nickel Creek's performance seemed glum and pained in comparison which was a disappointment because we had been really looking forward to their part of the show. After the episode was over, David went through some of The Avvet Brother's music on iTunes (I love iTunes previews). I had to have "Morning Song" which is on their album "Magpie and the Dandelion." I downloaded it a few days later, I'm one of those people that ponders things before I purchase them, and have been enjoying it since.
Another artist I've recently gotten into is Sarah Jarosz. Our household has been on kind of a banjo kick lately, so lots of Steve Marin, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, and Tony Trischka (just to name a few) have been playing. I've been really enjoying it! As David was looking around at artists you might like if you listened to such and such (I love iTunes), Sarah Jarosz was one of those that popped up. She has a haunting, lovely, folksy voice that was hard to forget once she got in my ear. Her voice reminds me a little of Sarah McLachlan or Jonatha Brooke. David played the song, "Annabelle Lee" and I was hooked. She has a few albums out, but the one I have been unable to stop playing is "Follow Me Down." It has the "Annabelle Lee" track, but there is another song on it that is just beautiful, "Ring Them Bells."
I have not been disappointed, and am looking forward to building up my library with these two new finds. Who knows what they will lead me to next. I'm also open to suggestions, so if you have an artist you think I should check out please let me know!
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