Mumford and Sons

Well, Ned actually might be the best authority around here in regards to the latest couple of albums which for some reason I keep forgetting to check out in full.

Otherwise, their most desert themed and musically experimental material is everything they did up until Garden Ruin, which was a sort of jarring shift at the time towards a more overall straightforward Wilco style pop approach. So I'd recommend that unless one of the new ones is better place to start.

Actually, you know what I'm going go all in on the daring recommendation that you start him off with a live album. They are fun live and can win most people over that way despite familiarity.

Therefore, highly recommend: Ancienne Belgique ~ Live In Brussels 2008

It might just be crazy enough to work.

hazel, what about Andrew Bird? He's got the rootsy thing down, plus violin pizzicato, and WHISTLING.

Break it Yourself is a great record.

added to the playlist!

so I ended up getting him Iron and Wine "Around the Well" and Of Monsters and Men "My Head is an Animal" (and the Mumford and Sons new one, which he asked for)... we'll see what he thinks

thanks all again for the suggestions! Calexico and Midlike I also think he might dig... maybe for his birthday in a couple months?

How did he get on with the purchases, f.hazel?

we listened to the new Mumford and Sons on Christmas Day, and he noted the difference in sound from the debut but seemed pleased... no word on the other two I chose as ancillary gifts, except he liked the idea of new music to try out! He's coming up to hang out next weekend, I'll post an update then!

Shockingly they turn out to be reactionaries (which you would never of course guess from their music, at all).

https://www.nme.com/news/music/mumford-sons-winston-marshall-praises-brave-right-wing-agitator-andy-ngo-2895342

My Mumford and Sons goes MAGA take:
Everyone always trashes dude at the party who sees an acoustic guitar and starts playing Santeria, when they really shoulda been worried about the dude who starts playing Wagon Wheel.

— Matt Lieb? (@mattlieb) March 7, 2021

false dichotomy. both of those guys suck.

I don't know either of these songs, and I have suffered many an acoustic guitar guy at a party.

wagon wheel is the "mama rock me" song, are you sure you haven't heard it?

this might be a USA / UK thing I guess

Wow, you're lucky. Wagon Wheel is all over Alaska.

I looked it up at some point and found out Bob Dylan wrote the chorus and someone else finished it.

Yeah, Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show heard it on a Pat Garrett... sessions bootleg and wrote a song around it which was later covered by Darius Rucker who had a big Country hit with it.

What do acoustic guitar guys play in the UK, other than "Wonderwall"?

beatle songs, shit from 00s rock bands which everyone my age knows except me

Ed Sheeran. walkthrough chinatown and 24 hours per day even during lockdown there will be a dude with a great haircut covering Ed Sheeran with a crowd of tourists who've never seen live music performed before.

i heard a white guy doing buffalo soldier at waterloo station once

I've got a cousin like that who used to play pub gigs doing acoustic Oasis, Beatles, landfill + probably Mumford and sons as well, since the rona era he's been doing online ukulele lessons. He's an abject disgrace to the family and would probably get on with the tory banjo-man.

Sing us song Tory banjo man
About being rich and white
We're all in the mood for a melody
And you've got us feeling alt-right

oh dear

Faith and What Makes You Beautiful on an acoustic guitar, always the sound of a taxi being phoned at a party for me

George Michael and One Direction?

yes

Apparently he's been booted out of the band now, or was a day ago but nobody noticed until now.

pic.twitter.com/x9yddYc0g9

— Winston Marshall (@MrWinMarshall) March 10, 2021

they're gonna have to find another banjo player with a goofy haircut... could take hours...

i note his twitter following has doubled since this all blew up. so many of these fuckers out there.

judging by the replies to his tweet, his new followers are furious at him

the commercial calculation must be that this shit still alienates more potential fans than it brings in new fans, which is good news I guess?

His new followers are unlikely to actually buy records/gig tickets or do anything other than tweet/retweet

Remember all those new diehard Ariel Pink fans?

from 2010? kinda

lol at this guy getting fucked out

i remember him making some video where he was being pretty anti-Irish, not surprised that a member of this band held these views and was stupid enough to share them.

not much to say about this except "lol fuck off then"

https://mrwinstonmarshall.medium.com/why-im-leaving-mumford-sons-e6e731bbc255

Or “*farts*”.

what the fuck is he even talking about?

poor little Gelfling

"I could self-censor ... but ..."

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bi0y_xnFVCN/

^^^ CW: photo including Jordan Peterson

Wow how sad. Wait no it isn't.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/mumford-sons-member-winston-marshall-condemned-by-artists-181504226.html

Saw a friend say on Twitter that his dad is a financer of GBNews.

Also he's clearly a fash-loving twat, as is Bari Weiss and all the other free speech/cancel culture bullshitters who stan for him.