Salutations
Hello all.
I am Gretchen. I am in college getting a B.A. in Music.
I grew up listening to classical (little c denoting the genre and not just the era), folk, and bluegrass.
I have stayed true to those roots and my mp3 player is dominated by these genres, but I have developed some love for rock of the indie sort, glam rock, and generally anything with complex orchestration.
some of my favorites include
In Folk(ish):
The Duhks
The Bills/Bill Hilly Band
Asylum Street Spankers (more blues/big band really)
Bluegrass:
Yonder Mountain String Band
Crooked Still
classical:
Schubert (and the romantic era in general)
Early Music
Rock(ish) indie(ish)?:
Raconteurs
Mumford and Sons
Other:
The Divine Comedy
I seem to really like music with banjoes (all but 1, excluding classical, on my list of favorites)
My current favorite song: Lay Down, by The Bills, has a melody with a lot of chromaticism, and a instumental interlude that is a folk orchestration of somthing by Shostakovich, and I definately think more music needs such elements.
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