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:	post by Snowden at 2012-11-11 13:44:42

1. First track is okay, but definitely not bluegrass. It sounds kind of like "old time" music played by Gogol Bordello fans. I'd bet money the fiddle player is a ringer who didn't listen to bluegrass/North American/Scotch-Irish folk music before joining this band.

2. I gave up on the second track midway through the first long sample. The acoustic guitar stuff they have going on there doesn't sound like any North American folk music I've heard, let alone anything from Kentucky.

3. I appreciate what they're trying to do, because Appalachian history is grim enough to rival anything in Norway or Finland, and because I think there's something to be said for drawing on your own local folk traditions instead of reaching halfway around the world, but (based on these two tracks) it sounds like they learned "folk music" from NPR.

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