i’ve been listening to this for the last couple of days, and i’ve finally decided “yes.” yes it is awesome.
i’m biased on a lot of them, for friend and friendquaintance reasons…but i’d never listened to company or josh roberts before, and daaaaamnz. even better, i used to think sequoyah sucked hard…turns out they don’t anymore. which is good, because i found out a few years ago that johnnie is my non-blood-remarriage-cousin (i’m pretty sure that means absolutely nothing).
caveat: i know this is probably blasphemy, but i just can’t get into the internet. there, i said it and now i’m done.
click the picture to stream/download. thanks to david stringer and scenesc for being awesome.
so here’s the thing…i know i’m biased. i know. but i honestly think south carolina is killing it musically right now.
you want creepy country revival? done and done. you want some more party with your country? done. you want pop with your country? done again. you want chillwave (sorry)? done, done, and done. you want indie? done. you want indie + electro-folk-pop? done. you want indie + the old testament? done. you want indie + non-shitty-emo? done. you want indie + generally-weird-shit? done again. you want band of horses? or hootie and the blowfish (i don’t judge)? got those too.
oh yeah, and rap too.
…i dare any other state to beat that.
We do this too.
austin crane - untitled (new song)
i first met austin in florence, sc - the town where my grandparents are buried. i was playing bass for erich skelton and the only other thing i remember from that night is fumbling through an impromptu cover of kelly clarkson’s “since u been gone.”
austin was 17 or so, sitting outside with johnnie matthews (who is now sortof my cousin) and a banjo. he was soft-spoken and humble, an all-around beautiful human being. hours later i found out that he was also one of the most talented songwriters/musicians i had ever met.
dig it.
(via scenesc)
kingslyn - “witch of the south”
(oh, and this too)
kingslyn - intro and “drunken country curse”
the video quality is crappy, i know. my computer recently decided it wants to destroy everything i love.
but still - what if country music sounded like this? imagine how much better the world would be.
(this is the kind of stuff that makes me want to drop out, buy a house in south carolina, jam some jamz, and be simple and happy forever).
