Tag Archives: Whimsical

Quite often, music artists in the Lone Star State have already been known for favoring an earthy, rootsy, down-home, meat-and-potatoes type of approach. That is true in from honky tonk (Waylon Jennings) to instrumental jazz (the Crusaders, David “Fathead” Newman, Adam Clay) to blues (Lightnin’ Hopkins, Johnny “Electric guitar” Watson, …

Irish indie folk-pop outfit the Youthful Folk was shaped in Dublin this year 2010, with every of its members having an enviable musical pedigree. Frontman Anthony Furey was the kid of George Furey, from the well-known Furey Brothers. Keyboardist Paul Butler was a primary descendent from the renowned theatrical Bourke …

When Australian fresh wave music group the Versions split up in 1988, business lead singer Sean Kelly attemptedto release a solo profession with an individual that shared its name along with his band’s final tour, “MANY THANKS, Goodnight.” It had been not a achievement. His next project, nevertheless, was. Recruiting …

In 2001, guitarist/vocalist Christian Doble still left Detroit, MI, using the skeletons of the bunch of music and going to Cleveland, OH, to shrink his tunes and present these to brand-new ears. In Cleveland, he fulfilled bassist/vocalist Liz Whitman and drummer Greg Hyland. The move and brand-new friends marked the …

Lo-fi Santa Cruz, CA-based indie rocker Dylan McKeever released his initial album, The Penguin League, beneath the Antarctica Takes It! moniker in 2006. Having a spinning cast of associates, McKeever’s homegrown, offbeat, but nonetheless accessible bedroom/notebook chamber pop provides drawn evaluations to likeminded performers such as Web page France, Sufjan …

Cornelis Vreeswijk was of great importance towards the Swedish ballad, giving it a much wider market aswell as by incorporating components of blues, jazz, pop, and Latin rhythms. Vreeswijk reached popularity during the middle-’60s with frequently extremely political lyrics, so when his tunes weren’t political, these were explicit in a …

Melodic indie rock outfit the Hill Movers were shaped in Brand-new Haven, Connecticut by singer, songwriter, and guitarist Daniel Greene. Previously, Greene and longtime collaborator Jeff Greene (no relationship) had discovered success, especially in the U.K., using their indie pop music group the Butterflies of Like, who released many albums …

Brothers Bernd and Karl-Heinz Ulrich were given birth to into a category of modest means. non-etheless, their parents captured on rapidly with their two sons’ dedication to music, and provided the required support. Though devices were expensive, a acoustic guitar for Karl-Heinz and drum arranged for younger Bernd would show …

The San Francisco-based project Scrabbel make knotty-yet-breezy, wry-yet-whimsical indie pop tunes. Within their moodier occasions they think of Mates of Condition and American Analog Arranged, and within their spun-sugariest occasions they conjure up Tiger Capture and Heavenly. Dan Lee and #poundsign#’s Becky Barron teamed up to create Scrabbel in 1999, …

The bombastic, quirky trio Connan & the Mockasins formulated their trippy make of indie play the first 2000s. Led by Connan Hosford and supported by Ross Walker and Seamus Ebbs, the group alchemized a audio that nodded towards the soporific trippiness of Lothar & the Hands People, the bluesy swagger …