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:
And then some video, so you can see them rocking out live:
Dead Queen and the River - Here and there LIVE
Dead Queen and the River : the port
Bonus video: Dejan Lazarevic Orkestar performing on their own:
Dejan Lazarević Orkestar Guča 2008. GAS-GAS
