Some time back–months, I'm not sure how many–I recorded an Austin City Limits episode which included these guys and Sarah Jarosz. I didn't know anything about them, it was just idle curiosity. I finally watched it a week or two ago and was quite impressed. This would be a good item with which to counter the oft-heard opinion that contemporary pop music (using the term very broadly) is mostly trash. I think the people who say that are only going by what they happen to hear of whatever the current equivalent of Top 40 is, and they're probably right about it. Whatever you think of this, though, you can't say they aren't authentically gifted artists.
You wouldn't guess it to look at them, or from listening to this song, but they're also very funny, especially the one on the left. If you'd asked, I'd have figured that the other one was the extroverted showman, and the one with the glasses was the quiet one who rarely spoke on stage. Wrong. "Extroverted showman" isn't right, but he does most of the talking, and is hilarious.
Oh, and Sarah Jarosz was very good, too, though I wasn't as taken with her as with these two.
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