I feel I must recommend The Band.
I just got my first album last week, but I already feel like I've been listening to them my whole life. They might look like extras from Little House on the Prairie, but it doesn't get any better than long-bearded Canadians singing "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". These songs are so instrumentally rich, full of accordian and tack piano and brought to life by these shady American mythological characters like Virgil, Fanny, and Robert E. Lee.
It also occurs to me that Counting Crows did a decent impersonation with "Long December".
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Posted by: biggya at June 10, 2005 11:21 AMmy brother told me in 9th grade that if i knew the names of all the members of The Band and what instrument each of them played that it would impress boys.
he was wrong.
that's better than i can do.
Posted by: abe at June 13, 2005 07:28 PM