Y'all Need to Listen to This: Dead Queen and the River -

Y’all Need to Listen to This: Dead Queen and the River

In their eponymous album Dead Queen and the River, international men of mystery with roots in Virginia, combine American folk music with a Serbian brass band – the Dejan Lazarevic Orkestar – to magnificent effect.

It’s bluegrass, but it’s bluegrass where fast-picking dances a fascinating, complex and delicate ballet with, among other things, the cheerful oompah-oompah of a tuba.

The following are some of my favorites from the record:

<a href="http://deadqueenandtheriver.bandcamp.com/track/simple-song">Simple song by Dead Queen and the River</a>

<a href="http://deadqueenandtheriver.bandcamp.com/track/get-lost">Get lost by Dead Queen and the River</a>

And then some video, so you can see them rocking out live:

Dead Queen and the River - Here and there LIVE