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Title: Milk Carton Kids
Post by: azslacker on July 22, 2014, 04:24:00 PM

  Crawled out from under my rock and saw these guys on Austin City Limits over the weekend. Never heard of them. Man they are a great duo. Simon and Garfunkle sounding on vocals, and the Martin player must have watched every David Rawlings video out there. Neat that their 2 guitars are twice as old as they are. The guys are 30ish. The Gibson is a 1951 J-45 tuned a whole step down, and the Martin, a 1954 0 body.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgxgyYlylsw

Title: Re: Milk Carton Kids
Post by: Jersey tuning on July 22, 2014, 05:44:49 PM

Have tickets to see them this October in NYC, along with Sarah Jarosz

Title: Re: Milk Carton Kids
Post by: Lizzy on July 22, 2014, 07:12:12 PM

Quote from: Jersey tuning on July 22, 2014, 05:44:49 PM

Have tickets to see them this October in NYC, along with Sarah Jarosz

I would have thought so :)

Title: Re: Milk Carton Kids
Post by: TaylorGirl on July 22, 2014, 09:44:27 PM

I saw them on ACL too (Sat. night). They were awesome.

Title: Re: Milk Carton Kids
Post by: Lizzy on July 22, 2014, 11:40:33 PM

Yes, didn't mean to highjack the post ribbing jersey, but I think they are awesome too. A refreshing burst of talent that seems to be in short supply these days.

Title: Re: Milk Carton Kids
Post by: Jersey tuning on July 23, 2014, 11:24:39 AM

My wife is a big fan; she thought I'd love them based on their similarities to Simon and Garfunkel.  She thinks their most recent album is a bit monochromatically dark and looks forward to a well rounded evening of fabulous music when we see them.