I’ve been grooving on some younger folks that got started on YouTube. There’s a bunch of kids that are/were in the new York area, and they’ve got this loose almost collective where they play together on each other’s channels.
Anyway, they’re all pretty damn good, but there’s two that stand out. Carson Mckee and Josh Turner. They do a wide range of stuff, though they lean heavy into folk, americana, and that sort of thing. They started out doing covers, but have done their own music too.
But those two guys call themselves “The Other Favorites” as a duo, and have an album. Turner is a damn fine guitarist with a great voice. McKee is an amazing singer that’s solid on guitar.
My absolute favorite track of theirs is Cherry Wine. I’m not going to say much about it because there’s a bit of an experience in listening to it the first time without preconceptions.
And there’s Have Mercy that’s just a strangely sweet song despite the subject matter.
They both do solo stuff, and do projects with other people, but there’s something a little more synergistic about the two of them together.
The stuff that isn’t on the album is just as good. It’s mostly covers, but they have this habit of putting enough of their own flavor to songs that they don’t feel like covers at all.
I’ve been grooving on some younger folks that got started on YouTube. There’s a bunch of kids that are/were in the new York area, and they’ve got this loose almost collective where they play together on each other’s channels.
Anyway, they’re all pretty damn good, but there’s two that stand out. Carson Mckee and Josh Turner. They do a wide range of stuff, though they lean heavy into folk, americana, and that sort of thing. They started out doing covers, but have done their own music too.
But those two guys call themselves “The Other Favorites” as a duo, and have an album. Turner is a damn fine guitarist with a great voice. McKee is an amazing singer that’s solid on guitar.
My absolute favorite track of theirs is Cherry Wine. I’m not going to say much about it because there’s a bit of an experience in listening to it the first time without preconceptions.
And there’s Have Mercy that’s just a strangely sweet song despite the subject matter.
They both do solo stuff, and do projects with other people, but there’s something a little more synergistic about the two of them together.
The stuff that isn’t on the album is just as good. It’s mostly covers, but they have this habit of putting enough of their own flavor to songs that they don’t feel like covers at all.