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Aqua Letifer

Modern music is all milquetoast hooks in 2 minutes or under, within a very narrow band of beats per minute, and vocal affectations employed to hide a shameless amount of autotune. Oh and don't forget the TikTok theatrics.

This guy's doing none of that shit. I'll take his imperfect voice, simplistic guitar playing and okay lyrics because it isn't contrived. Good for him. I hope he dominates the YouTube discover for months because something like this should.

Mik

Gosh, you mean you want something REAL?

Horace

I wasn't expecting to hear "zen koan" in those lyrics. Nice song.

Aqua Letifer

@Mik said in "Rich Men North of Richmond":

Gosh, you mean you want something REAL?

Crazy, right?

Jolly

No. I'm up to here with autotune...

Renauda

@Aqua-Letifer

This guy's doing none of that shit. I'll take his imperfect voice, simplistic guitar playing and okay lyrics because it isn't contrived. Good for him.

I agree. He ain’t no Guy Clark or even a Gram Parsons, but he’s got something and his own sound. Just the fact he can pull it off on a cheap Gretsch resonator says something by itself .

LuFins Dad

His voice is substantially older than he is. That throws me off a bit watching the videos. He sounds like he’s a 50-60 year old coal miner… Great emotion and good stuff. Not sure that I would sit through 75 minutes of the same, but yeah… OK…

LuFins Dad

And I find it funny that a group of people that idolize Bob Dillon is criticizing this guy’s voice…

Aqua Letifer

@LuFins-Dad said in "Rich Men North of Richmond":

And I find it funny that a group of people that idolize Bob Dillon is criticizing this guy’s voice…

The feels, they are a-biased.

Doctor Phibes

So, has this guy taken over from sea shanties? I was quite enjoying that internet fad, and now apparently it's this.

I guess it's back to Michael Brecker and Chris Potter for me.

Aqua Letifer

@Doctor-Phibes said in "Rich Men North of Richmond":

So, has this guy taken over from sea shanties? I was quite enjoying that internet fad, and now apparently it's this.

You know those two are related, right?

Doctor Phibes

@Aqua-Letifer said in "Rich Men North of Richmond":

You know those two are related, right?

Well, there's commonalities, certainly.

My dad used to sing me shanties when I was a baby, and he did the same thing for my grandchildren, which was probably why I enjoyed them so much.

I don't really like this latest thing so much, not really my bag.

Rainman

Phibes, if you remember the names of some of your favorites that we might not be familiar with, it would be enjoyable to listen to. Sea shanties. hmmm. Specific to where your family is from, maybe?

Doctor Phibes

@Rainman said in "Rich Men North of Richmond":

Phibes, if you remember the names of some of your favorites that we might not be familiar with, it would be enjoyable to listen to. Sea shanties. hmmm. Specific to where your family is from, maybe?

Nothing unusual, just the 'Drunken Sailor', 'Blow the man down', that kind of stuff. My dad was from Twickenham, west of London, so not much of a naval tradition there

Aqua Letifer

@Doctor-Phibes said in "Rich Men North of Richmond":

@Aqua-Letifer said in "Rich Men North of Richmond":

You know those two are related, right?

Well, there's commonalities, certainly.

Yeah, not exactly in the musical genre but in terms of how it's produced. I think both are a symptom of people getting more and more starved for real things without knowing that's what's going on with them. Otherwise you're left to conclude that "sea shanties as a trend" is just some random happenstance thing, and that's completely untrue. They never are.

Doctor Phibes

@Aqua-Letifer said in "Rich Men North of Richmond":

Yeah, not exactly in the musical genre but in terms of how it's produced. I think both are a symptom of people getting more and more starved for real things without knowing that's what's going on with them. Otherwise you're left to conclude that "sea shanties as a trend" is just some random happenstance thing, and that's completely untrue. They never are.

'Folk music that doesn't suck'.

Blues seems to have gone the way of the dinosaurs, jazz is now taught in colleges like classical music, country is essentially just over-produced pop music sung by a guy wearing a cowboy hat and boots, urban black music mostly seems to be about bitches and shooting people and what-have-you, which is a bit depressing.

I can see why something a bit more genuine might appeal.

89th

The 2nd video was a bit better, nice music from the guitar and lyrics, although he still does that overly repetitive thing with his voice hitting the same 3-4 notes over and over that drove me a little off with his first hit.

Aqua Letifer

@89th said in "Rich Men North of Richmond":

The 2nd video was a bit better, nice music from the guitar and lyrics, although he still does that overly repetitive thing with his voice hitting the same 3-4 notes over and over that drove me a little off with his first hit.

Okay now do yours.

89th

Hang on, let me set up a camera in the trees to make it seem like I'm singing by myself but really it's going to record me so I can post it on the internet.

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