Career suicide.
Never trust a folk group who doesn't ever once play a cover of a Woodie Guthrie song.
These guys made a career of producing music that had the shape folk music, but told us nothing about ourselves and helped us remember nothing. They didn't have to be chuds to be bad. What they were doing already was itself a crime.
Not who you asked but Sturgill Simpson, Tyler Childers, Margo Price, Charley Crockett, and Justin Townes Earle are some of my favorites.
Steve Earle is more Bluegrass/Folk than Country but he's dope. My favorite songs of his are: The Mountain a song about a boy who grew up on a mountain in Appalachia, worked in the mines as a man, and now mourns the loss of the mountain after the mining industry destroyed it all. As well as Dixieland a song based on a character from the book The Killer Angels, an Irishman who came to America and enlisted to go fight the Confederate Slavers during the American Civil War because he sees them as no better than the English landowners who stole his island and forced him to flee for his life. Good stories told to music.
so their political opinions are as dog shit as their music? noted.
Lmao, he deleted it.
His entire Twitter timeline is just “CHINA BAD” too.
The guy with the worst music also has the worst politics? I'm shocked.
I think I read somewhere once that there isn't a single M&S song that doesn't contain either the words "heart" or "hand" lol. They literally just write the same thing over and over again and people go "wow! a banjo!" and keep buying it.
banjos are good, but like all good things (like trains) they can be perverted in the hands of evil men
This dude's grift is so blatantly obvious that I refuse to believe anybody just "falls" for it. You need to be a qanon freak to take Ngo at his word.
My old coworkers who I was hanging with at a festival ditched me to see Mumford & Sons. I told them to stay with me and watch the far better band, LCD Soundsystem, but nope they ditched me. Jokes on them now.
Holy shit imagine missing LCD Soundsystem to go watch Mumford and Sons of all things lmao. Just why would your co workers do such a thing?
They probably didn't know who LCD Soundsystem was. I had the time of my life. Being in the crowd during the drop of Dance Yrself Clean was the most euphoric concert experience of my life.
One time LCD Soundsystem did a 5-night run at the place I worked and I had never heard of them before. Every night for 5 nights they did their show, and by the end I was so tired I could barely stand. Every night they would end with Dance Yrself Clean, and I would know I could go home soon. Not only did I develop an appreciation for the band, but now I have a Pavlovian relaxation response to that song in particular, the last one I would hear before going home to smoke and sleep.
Great light show, too.
This is the first time I've thought about them in several years
He's a big Hong Kong guy according to his retweets. Wealthy white men.
His dad is literally a Sir
It makes a lot of sense he is pro-HK when they're waving around colonial flags and such
This is Winstom Marshall's father in case you were wondering why his politics are dogshit:
Sir Paul Roderick Clucas Marshall (born 2 August 1959) is a British investor. According to The Sunday Times Rich List in 2020, Marshall is worth £630 million. [...] He is the co-founder and chairman of Marshall Wace LLP, one of Europe's largest hedge fund groups.
His grandfather also did hella colonialism in the Philippines (managing director of the company that became Unilever Phillippines)
Also Clucas is a ridiculous name that sounds made up, even for a br*t
edit: Lol I forgot that this dipshit is a Jordan Peterson stan
Power: Did you guys know how controversial he was?
Marshall: I guess so. I think we could have a very long conversation about it now. But I think it's precisely why Peterson and [Sam] Harris and all these other guys are having these two or three-hour-long conversations on podcasts and that those things are so popular, is because these are incredibly long and nuanced conversations to have. I mean, as fascinating as it is, I'm not sure we're going to have the time to get in all of one of those in the time we've got now. But I think that the Mumford and Sons are very interested in the public discourse generally and all the things that are going on.
Cartoonish Sirens go off in my head when they choose to bring up Sam Harris in defence of being controversial 'for the discourse'.
