Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes

Robin Pecknold's vision of indie folk perfection came to life in 2008 when Fleet Foxes released their self-titled debut album. What started as a basement recording project between high school friends evolved into a critically-acclaimed masterpiece that perfectly blends Beach Boys-inspired harmonies with pastoral themes and Renaissance aesthetics.

Sitting down to explore this influential album track by track reveals the genius behind what many critics consider one of the greatest debut albums ever recorded. The band's Norwegian-inspired folk creates an immersive experience through Pecknold's evocative lyrics about nature, mortality, and family connections. We're struck by how the production, despite being created on a shoestring budget with band members recording parts between regular jobs, achieves such a rich, atmospheric quality.

Beyond the recognized hits "White Winter Hymnal" and "Blue Ridge Mountains," the album offers numerous standout tracks that showcase the band's range. "Ragged Wood" captivates with its compelling bridge and perfect coda, while "Tiger Mountain Peasant Song" demonstrates their ability to create tension through minimal arrangements. Throughout the album, Casey Westcott's subtle keyboard work and Nicholas Peterson's drumming provide the perfect foundation for the intricate vocal arrangements that define the Fleet Foxes sound.

What makes this album special is its authenticity and restraint—songs deliver emotional impact through simplicity rather than complexity, avoiding unnecessary solos or filler. The band creates complete musical statements that transport listeners to wooded landscapes and natural settings. Whether you're new to Fleet Foxes or revisiting this classic, join us as we rank our favorite non-hits and celebrate a timeless record that continues to reveal new layers with each listen.

Transcript

Introduction to Fleet Foxes

Speaker 2 0:09

I think you're in the wrong building. This is the Fox Galleries.

Speaker 3 0:16

Fox Galleries.

Speaker 2 0:34

All right, thank you for listening to the Greatest Non-Hits. I'm Chris, and playing the song Ragged Wood from the Fleet Foxes debut album, which is also called Fleet Foxes, is my co-host, tim. Co-host Tim. We want to thank you for listening today. This is a cool band. They're not so well of the band is what's this guy's name? Yeah, robin Pecknold. Yep, he, kirkland, washington. Shout out to Costco. He was originally from that area. Had a high school buddy, skyler Skjelsetit skjelsit.

Speaker 2 1:27

Maybe it's a soft j softj, yeah, soft j and uh. They were uh. They founded the band, uh wanted to lean into their norwegian roots and uh made a, an album that's considered by many to be one of the greatest debut albums of all time. I mean think of the pressure of that, but it's good stuff. I'm not really a folk indie kind of a guy Maybe Tim is a little bit more so but the more you hear it, the more it's authentic. It's real Great harmonies. I can't stress that enough. Obviously there are some other people in the band Nicholas Peterson on drums, casey Westcott, keyboards, vocals, craig Curran, bass, vocals as well. And well, I think that's the current lineup right now. Um, I think like for this, or maybe not. No, I think that these guys were on this album as well. I mean, I'm, I'm reading from Wikipedia, so I mean, I'm not. By no means are we uh experts. Uh of it has such a great reputation amongst other artists and because they've endured, it's worthy of just all the praise in the world, even coming from a non-folky kind of guy such as me. But anyway, what we're going to do is listen to all the songs and then rank our top three non hits, as we always do, so it's gonna be a lot of fun. We've got a bunch of sound banks uh kicking in when tim is. Uh, when tim wraps up, we're gonna we're gonna talk a little bit about more about it, his background with the, with the band, and uh, yeah, we'll do that.

Speaker 2 3:25

But just looking at the track list, they have one song that kind of stands out in terms of the number of listens, which is White Winter Hymnal. I even think that Fish did a cover of that song as well, so that kind of it's kind of in Tim's lane there. So might hear a little bit more about that, maybe not, I don't know, but nevertheless, the other song, what is it going to be? I think it's Blue Ridge Mountains. I believe is the other one that is going to be considered a hit. So White Winter Hymnal and Blue Ridge Mountains will be excluded from our top threes, but the rest are open game.

Speaker 2 4:11

I have no idea. I think I have an idea of one or maybe two of them that will be on my list, but I've got to listen to the deeper tracks, like tracks 8, 9, 10. Or 10 is Blue Ridge Mountains, so scratch that. But 9, 8, 9, 10, or 10 is Blue Ridge Mountain. So scratch that. But 9, 8, 9, or 11, I don't know. I've got to listen, but we're going to yuck it up and Tim is here. Tim, great job on that, by the way. Thank you. How are you doing?

Speaker 4 4:39

I'm out of the woods on that.

Speaker 2 4:40

Yeah.

Speaker 4 4:43

So give me your thoughts. Well, the sounds, the sounds of the woods and the sounds of something rural, something A lot of nature.

Speaker 2 4:53

Yes.

Speaker 4 4:53

When your house was made out of sod, Mm-hmm. You know that's what I'm getting from this. You know I'm getting a lot of.

Speaker 2 5:02

Beach Boys, oh Beach Boys, oh Beach Boys. And.

Speaker 4 5:07

You can have sod on the beach. Put some sod on.

Speaker 2 5:10

Well, I was going to say Beach Boys, like having a baby with a Renaissance Festival, kind of a thing. You know, like that kind of a mix. You can see, you know a little bit of grass and a surfboard there. So I don't know Some grass Well for theirs. I don't know some grass well it. No, seriously, the, it's the harmonics that they get from the beach boys.

Sun It Rises Analysis

Speaker 4 5:26

I think here is yeah, no, definitely, definitely some grass. Yeah, the beach boys, for sure, I mean it's I. I like that analogy, that's very good yeah, thanks, it's, it's, it's, it's floaty, it's springy, it's um. I guess it deals with the other side of things as well in a agricultural kind of way. You know, you need the soil to the crops to die and make new soil Well, you're the plant guy?

Speaker 2 5:59

Yeah, something like that. You know, yeah, we're all carbon fiber yeah.

Speaker 4 6:03

Carbon fiber footprint Okay.

Speaker 2 6:04

Yeah, we're all carbon fiber. Yep, yeah, carbon fiber footprint. Mm-hmm. Okay yeah, a lot of horticulture to sift through for this one.

Speaker 4 6:11

Definitely some sifting. Yeah, a lot of sifting. We're going to sift yeah.

Speaker 2 6:15

What about the album?

Speaker 4 6:16

cover. We're going to sift the compost. That's album cover. It's.

Speaker 2 6:20

Renaissance, renaissance-y.

Speaker 4 6:23

It's very, it's very. Bring out your dead.

Speaker 2 6:29

Yeah, exactly, you know Well, I mean they got it from like a specific painting. I believe We'll have to look that up Like 15th century, that's a good century, Netherlands, I don't know like that, that kind of thing. It's like a. It's like a. It's inspired from a famous painting from the 1500s, so, but that wasn't like an, an actual this is they?

Speaker 4 6:57

they got this from something else by the end of this, everybody's going to compost. We're going to cut out single use plastics. We're going to wear burlap maybe yes.

Speaker 2 7:10

A lot of burlap.

Speaker 4 7:11

I don't have one burlap robe shirt. If your skin starts rashing, that's just you know. It'll get better after that.

Speaker 2 7:21

You've got to fight through it.

Speaker 4 7:23

Get past the initial rash of the burlap? Yeah, and then you'll be okay.

Speaker 2 7:27

You got to fight through it Definitely, but yeah, but everybody go out there and do that, of course, yeah, so okay, right, so we're ready to go. Let's get into it All right. Let's get into it All right. We got sun. The first one is called sun. It rises, okay.

Speaker 4 7:48

Red squirrel in the morning.

Speaker 2 7:54

Red squirrel yeah, that's rich in symbolism. Somehow, I think red squirrels With preparation, because they hoard nuts and seeds, don't they Right?

Speaker 3 8:03

That's how they do it. They got wooden balls, man.

Speaker 2 8:09

So yeah, red squirrel in the morning, red squirrel in the evening, we got that going for us. So yeah, red squirrel in the morning, red squirrel in the evening. So we got that going for us right now, very pastoral.

Speaker 4 8:21

Yes, ethereal, rich, rich.

Speaker 2 8:33

This is the Beach Boys episode. Oh yeah, okay. Oh. This piece is called I Lick my Laugh, pump Tim. That was so immature. This is a good song. You've got to go there, but was so immature. This is a good song.

Speaker 4 9:02

You gotta go there, but that's true.

Speaker 2 9:05

It's a bit of a mock piece, yeah this is a mock piece, peace.

Speaker 4 9:55

It's a cool guitar Bill. The keys are following now, sun rising Dangling there.

Speaker 3 10:12

Golden and fair In the sky. Okay, all right, yeah.

Speaker 1 10:25

Got to whisper for the rest of that.

Speaker 2 10:31

Shout out to those early risers out there.

Speaker 1 10:34

The Walkers.

Speaker 2 10:38

Shout out to the Walkers definitely.

Speaker 4 10:40

This is the same fill in Ragged Wood.

Speaker 2 10:44

Oh yeah, you're right, it could have been either of those songs.

Speaker 4 10:47

They're recycling their own stuff right here.

Speaker 2 10:53

That was pretty good, though I could come up with a song.

Speaker 4 10:54

It's a foreshadowing oh, okay.

Speaker 3 10:57

It's thematic.

Speaker 2 10:59

There's a fine line between clever and stupid.

Speaker 3 11:04

Who are?

Speaker 4 11:05

you following.

Speaker 3 11:08

I don't know. Oh gosh, oh gosh, oh gosh, oh gosh, oh gosh, oh gosh, oh gosh, oh gosh, oh gosh, oh gosh, oh gosh, oh gosh, oh gosh, oh gosh, oh gosh.

Speaker 2 11:17

Oh gosh, oh gosh, oh gosh, oh gosh.

Speaker 4 11:31

Oh gosh, it fell. Yeah, it was bleeding.

Speaker 2 11:36

Yeah, that was made of red snow. They used to make the snow yellow, but that's the way it went. It's primal.

Speaker 4 11:43

It's a prime color, you know yellow.

Speaker 3 11:53

Swaddled in the pack. I was swaddled in their coats. Swaddled in their coats To keep their little heads From falling in the snow. Reminds me of when you were a little kid. I grew up in the snow. Yeah, snow, shout out to Michaels.

Speaker 4 12:07

The Michaels out there. Sure, yeah, you made the cut for this lyrically.

Speaker 2 12:13

Shout out to the swaddlers out there.

Speaker 4 12:15

Yeah, swaddle up.

Speaker 3 12:20

Let's go home.

Speaker 4 12:25

Get your tea. Okay, just go home, swaddle up in your favorite blanket.

Speaker 2 12:33

I can see why this is a hit. Did they do the whole song?

Speaker 4 12:39

but they did a cover of this? I don't know. Fishman is probably pissed. He doesn't have a drum this deep in his reservoir. There's like 45 fucking drums, but maybe not this drum that the guy's hitting.

Speaker 2 12:51

It's the debut album. This is on a shoestring budget or something. I heard they recorded this in the guy's basement. Hell yeah, the beginning part of it at least. I love that. Yeah, I do too.

Speaker 4 13:08

These are little projects. Yeah, the other guys had jobs and in between.

Speaker 3 13:11

and there you go, it's their little project.

White Winter Hymnal & Ragged Wood

Speaker 2 13:12

Yeah, and like the other guys had jobs and they were like in between they were working, they'd go and record their parts. It was something else. Okay, this is Ragged Wood. This is the one that Tim covered here.

Speaker 3 13:27

Don't tell me you respect wood.

Speaker 2 13:33

I think it's important to respect wood In all. Hug a tree folks, Literal and figurative.

Speaker 4 13:42

Solve your ailments. Hug a tree. That works, I heard, yeah, seattle down, seattle down with me here. Let's go home Back on your own now. Back and to the left, back and to the left.

Speaker 3 14:19

The world is alive now In an outside out.

Speaker 4 14:23

I love outside. You are outside a lot you gotta get outside.

Speaker 2 14:27

You're an outside cat again.

Speaker 4 14:31

Well, I'm gonna spend inside time to go outside time.

Speaker 2 14:34

Right, yeah, I, probably I should be outside more. I'm more of an indoor cat, tim's in the outdoor variety. Shout out to the tennis players out there. Yes, shout out to Tim for moving up on the tennis ladder. That's right, just hit your shots.

Speaker 4 14:52

That's right. Just hit your shots, that's right. Hit your shots, people.

Speaker 2 14:57

Yeah, ball and play, and don't let Parks and Recreation tell you what you can and can't do.

Speaker 4 15:04

Yeah, you want to have your dog be the ball girl? You can do that, that's right. Big hitter, big hitter, big hitter.

Speaker 2 15:15

Lawn, don't tell me you respect wood. Shout out to our sponsors All you Coco drinkers out there.

Speaker 4 15:39

Coco beans from the upper slopes of Mount Nicaragua. Jonathan Evelyn, get on in here, Say hi to Michael.

Speaker 2 15:52

I would love to be like one of these people in the Fleet Foxes album cover, just drinking a nice my cocoa right now, wouldn't that be? That seems just very lovely to me All this time I thought it was an act.

Speaker 4 16:11

Thank you, woody, you're looking pretty ragged out there. Here's the same riff, same riff as the first ending of what was that song?

Speaker 2 16:25

Oh, sun it Rises, sun it Rises. Yeah, shout out to Craig Curran on the bass that nice little do do, do do.

Speaker 4 16:33

I mean, it was just like one thing it was well placed, casey, casey Westcott, we see you.

Speaker 2 16:40

Yeah, adding those layered vocals right, yeah, you can, I know you're back there. You're back there. You're doing the baritone of Rob to the left. Yeah, tell me anything you want, I know you're back there. You're doing the baritone of Robert and to the left.

Speaker 4 16:54

Tell me anything you want Secrets, secret time Secrets.

Speaker 3 17:01

Well, isn't that special.

Speaker 2 17:03

When you're playing Tim on the tennis ladder, you've got to make sure you're going To the left and to the left. That's the secret. You've got to go back and to the left. He hits everything back there. You're going back and to the left.

Speaker 4 17:15

That's the secret. You got to go back and to the left. Yeah, he hits everything back. You're welcome. Yeah, it's true, backhand, forehand.

Speaker 2 17:21

I just go left Apparently, like the top 10 of the ladder is like untouchable, but 11 through 20 are beatable. Yeah, you can. Yeah, definitely beatable, I think you can. Yeah, definitely beatable. I think Tim's kind of as high as 9. He had a few poor matches but now he's back. At what? 20? I bet in.

Speaker 4 17:43

Seattle. They have to have lots of rain dates for tennis.

Speaker 2 17:47

Hey you want to play tennis.

Speaker 1 17:48

There's got to be, a tennis scene.

Speaker 4 17:49

Oh, let's play tennis. Oh, it's raining again. Yeah, ireland, not a big. No, indoors maybe Got to play indoor.

Speaker 2 18:00

Okay, that's true. I think Rod Laver Stadium is indoor, isn't it Like Australian Open, maybe? Go down there, shout out to Australia. Yeah and open. Go down there, shout out to Australia. That was nice, alright Westcott, holding the organ down just long enough. Tiger Mountain, peasant Song, is this next one?

Speaker 4 18:31

Oh gosh.

Speaker 2 18:37

It's very Baroque.

Speaker 3 18:44

Hmm, it's like Brahms.

Speaker 4 18:48

Brahms would love this shit. Who Brahms? Oh, oh, yeah, I'm a Brahms guy, brahms would love this shit.

Speaker 3 18:52

Who would?

Speaker 2 18:53

Brahms oh yeah, I'm a Brahms guy. Brahms or whatever. Brahms, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 18:59

I listen to a lot of classical, so this kind of ties in. Yeah, it's good, cocoa beans from the upper slopes of mountain Nicaragua.

Tiger Mountain Peasant Song

Speaker 3 19:24

Like a bird. How much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None. Is that good or black?

Speaker 4 19:38

This is black. This stripe on a tiger is black. Oh, come, here we go.

Speaker 2 19:48

I'm just.

Speaker 3 19:50

It's a sad song, man. Oh, I'm getting a little verklempt. Oh, all this time I thought it wasn't true. In the town one morning I went Staggering through premonitions of my death. I don't see anybody that dear to me. What about?

Speaker 4 20:35

Jesse.

Speaker 3 20:40

I'll be sad when Uncle Jesse dies.

Speaker 2 20:44

He does not live me first. How did I even get on this topic?

Speaker 3 20:47

Anything true on this topic. I don't know what I have done. I'm turning myself to a demon. Well, isn't that special? I don't know what I have done. I'm turning myself to a demon Satan.

Speaker 2 21:23

Shout out to the church lady.

Speaker 4 21:25

And the church goers out there.

Speaker 2 21:29

DJ. It's the middle of the night, it's a nice of the night. Ah, it's a nice echo.

Speaker 4 21:36

Yeah.

Speaker 2 21:37

Sam's done pretty well, like the way it was mixed and everything Shout out to the producers.

Speaker 4 21:43

That basement has some good echo. It's a good basement, much better than the others.

Speaker 2 21:50

Yeah, we couldn't do this in my basement.

Speaker 4 21:52

Yeah, shout out to the basement dwellers out there. Shout out to.

Speaker 2 21:58

Basement dwellers. Yes, shout out to Phil Eck. Producer, engineer, mixer Eck Eck. He's a club guy from Seattle back in the 90s.

Speaker 1 22:29

I feel, feel naughty, feel naughty, come on, swing baby. You flatten them.

Speaker 2 22:44

There's a lot of don't give ins here.

Speaker 4 22:48

They're just getting into the don't give ins. Yeah, they're just getting into the donkey vins.

Speaker 2 22:53

Yeah, I think they're going to do something cool musically, right.

Speaker 4 23:00

I thought they were saying donkey for a while. Donkey, donkey vin, donkey vin. It's like donkey wine, donkey wine. I love donkey wine. Come on, sharon. Sharon, have you met Jesse and Michael Evelyn? Who else? There was another name. We're missing another name. You're blanking, I'm blanking. Typical, he always forgets names.

Speaker 2 23:46

I'm just into all the lay-me-downs right now. I was just thinking about that. I'm sorry. Now feel, feel there's a lot of repetitiveness.

Speaker 4 24:03

Yeah, it's kind of a filler song. I don't know.

Speaker 1 24:05

It feels like it Hippies out around me Him, mammy hippies.

Speaker 2 24:12

The problemmy, mammy hippies the problem is, if you see one hippie, there's probably a whole lot more next to you. That's the best they definitely don't have permission.

Speaker 4 24:31

this is a good little yeah, what's?

Speaker 2 24:34

understated is the keyboards in this Subtle lines intertwining it's kind of like a Dr Dog.

Speaker 4 24:43

You know Dr Dog.

Speaker 2 24:45

No, what's?

Speaker 4 24:45

Dr Dog. Dr Dog is like an indie band.

Speaker 2 24:55

I thought it was like an adult film star or something. No, but yeah, you're right, it's an indie from Philadelphia.

Speaker 4 25:00

They're sort of like this. They have a simple sort of rock style. Yeah, it's an interesting genre.

Speaker 2 25:16

Yeah, but this is built off of again the Beach Boys and other 70s.

Speaker 4 25:22

It does, doesn't it?

Speaker 2 25:23

Burt Bacharach.

Speaker 4 25:24

Yeah, oh damn, I'm pulling some shit out.

Speaker 2 25:27

You are, you know, I like the way that ended that last song All right, and I like the way you ended that as well. Your comment, yeah, very back-rocked.

Speaker 3 25:36

Yeah, I'm a fan, he's the original panty-dropper I did not.

Speaker 2 25:50

Yeah, when you think about it that way, I didn't understand.

Speaker 3 25:52

Oh, I've heard. Yeah, okay, that dot yeah.

Speaker 2 25:59

Yeah, okay, we'll do them another day Maybe.

Speaker 3 26:15

Yeah.

Speaker 1 26:21

Just know that he's the best one.

Speaker 3 26:30

See your rugged hands and a silver knife. Twenty dollars in your hand Makes you hold so tight All the evidence of your vacant life.

Speaker 2 26:45

There's a lot going on here. All the lyrics are really vague and kind of general. Could mean a lot of different things, but under an aesthetic and theme Nature, nature, yeah.

Speaker 4 27:01

You can apply it to your regular life? Yeah, you can do that.

Speaker 2 27:11

Okay, do it, do it, that's right.

Speaker 3 27:18

Okay, do it, do. What is she doing?

Speaker 1 27:29

I never know what she's doing back there.

Quiet Houses & Your Protector

Speaker 3 27:40

Shout out to Chaz Ryan-Cole. Okay, shout out to Chaz Ryan-Cole. Shout out to Chaz Ryan-Cole. Shout out to.

Speaker 1 27:57

Jay.

Speaker 4 28:05

Okay, here we go there you go Psychic talent. Hello, very psychedelic. Oh yeah, here we go.

Speaker 2 28:30

This is he doesn't know, why keys, keys, okay, keys, or Casey Westcott I mention that guy's name a lot. He doesn't even have a Wikipedia page.

Speaker 4 28:48

How about?

Speaker 2 28:48

Yes, scott Scott you just don't get it, do you. You just don't get it. You just don't get it, do you you just don't get it you just don't get it. Here's a song with like no words, so it's called heart, heart them or heard them stirring, sorry. Yeah, yeah, suck like a fox. Ha, ha, ha, ha ha. So we just gotta lean into the harmonics here Just drink it in the deep drums.

Speaker 4 29:34

Yes, yes, harmonics and deep drums. I would love to see them.

Speaker 2 29:39

If they play at red fest, take all my money, red fest yeah, there should be like a 1 million person renaissance festival, like kind of like a woodstock. Should be like a one million person Renaissance Festival, kind of like a Woodstock, but more like a Renaissance Festival theme.

Speaker 4 30:00

Bread, more of the mac and cheese balls, sia, I know just a collection. Fire up the Mountain Dew and the turkey leg and the turkey leg, turkey leg, the turkey leg. Now eat apple dumpling, ice cream and salted spiced nuts. It's good, yeah, right, best.

Speaker 2 30:27

Yeah, I just can't stop.

Speaker 4 30:34

Now that you said spiced nuts, I just can't stop thinking about how do you do these balls? I know, it's just, he's got them. He's got them. That's how they do it, he's got wooden balls man.

Speaker 1 30:49

Yeah, kunga, kunga, kunga.

Speaker 4 30:52

Kunga, kunga, kunga, kunga, gunga, gunga, gunga, lagunga, gunga galunga. Got that going for him.

Speaker 2 30:59

Which is next. I don't know if they've ever thought of that, though, just like having a big Renaissance Festival concert and have Fleet Foxes.

Speaker 4 31:32

They already sell out with the crappy bands they have. So that's true. I don't think.

Speaker 2 31:39

I don't think it'd work. So they're still around, they're still touring. I hope so. Flea Foxes, I don't know. Anyway, that was alright, that was better than the first time I heard it. That was good. So your Protectors just named this one. So wait, who's the drummer on this?

Speaker 4 31:54

Anyway, that was better than the first time I heard it, so your Protectors Just named this one. Wait, who's the drummer on this? The drummer is Flash of Green Light.

Speaker 2 32:05

Yeah, and that was it no seriously, she left a week to go your protector's coming home.

Speaker 3 32:20

Keep your secrets with you, girl, safe from the outside. You walk along the stream.

Speaker 2 32:33

I like the tambourine too, it's. Nicholas Peterson is the drummer, gwen Owen is the flutist here. Shout out to.

Speaker 3 32:48

Gwen, too late to die beside me, baby, on the morning that you came. Would you wait for me? This really bums me out. It bums me out Just two swinging boxes Too late to die beside me, baby, on the morning that you came. Would you wait for me?

Speaker 4 33:20

The other one would wait for me Anyhow, if you think that I'm going to sit around and wait for you forget it.

Speaker 2 33:28

It's pretty cold, sad Linda.

Speaker 4 33:30

That's cold. It's kind of cold. It's cold. Sad Linda, that's cold. It's kind of cold.

Speaker 3 33:42

It's cold, Phoebe Satan.

Speaker 2 33:44

A lot of religious themes in there too. Good and evil Dying. I blame myself.

Speaker 3 33:50

Good and evil, I blame myself.

Speaker 4 33:59

I like this little guitar picking. It feels like a travel song. Fire up thy chariot, let's go Watch out for the robbers and barons and carpetbaggers, rightons and carpetbaggers, right, these damn carpetbaggers.

Speaker 2 34:20

Scallywags Easy on the scallywags. Sorry, you know they're scallywags, not by choice. Damn, you're born into scallywagism.

Speaker 3 34:34

Scallywags, that's good. I was born a scallywag-ism, scallywag-ism, that's good. I was born a scallywag and I'll die one.

Speaker 4 34:43

Tell your father I was good. I was good, I was a scallywag Dead yeah.

Speaker 3 34:49

It's too late to die beside me.

Speaker 2 34:51

I need another scallywag to die beside me.

Speaker 3 34:54

Okay.

Speaker 2 35:05

Okay, do it.

Speaker 1 35:10

Oh, all this time, I thought it wasn't there.

Speaker 4 35:20

Back and to the left.

Speaker 1 35:40

But none of the other mothers are available to go.

Speaker 4 35:49

It's very beautiful. Tell your mother not to wait.

Speaker 2 35:55

I think we need a palate cleanser, just something along these lines.

Speaker 4 36:00

I'll wait just a minute, there we go.

Speaker 2 36:01

That was what I was looking for, thank you.

Speaker 3 36:04

Waiting for a mission.

Speaker 4 36:08

And a little bit of a.

Speaker 3 36:10

Middle of the night, fly your way down Like a bird bit of a.

Speaker 2 36:28

Yeah, this is for this is hardcore folk.

Speaker 4 36:29

Cornucopias are so folky Cornucopias are so folky yes.

Speaker 3 36:39

Fleecy diamonds.

Speaker 2 37:02

Like a bird, just let me die Inside the broken ovals of your heart. Really big eyes If you gave it your best.

Speaker 3 37:08

Try this track I hum in verse. Sing to me.

Speaker 2 37:28

There's a lot of really good songs out here. It's starting to hit me. You've got to pick a top three, the good qualities to all these songs. It's tough Just questioning the whole thing that we're doing here. Man, I blame myself. I do Just like change the key, like right in the middle of the. Yeah, right.

Speaker 3 38:17

Yeah, he's got a good voice too.

Speaker 2 38:34

Ah, that was badass. Yeah, I haven't eaten meat, I don't know. Probably like eight months, eight or no, even longer than maybe about a year and a half, like I mean, if I'm including fish. But I'm like and I want a turkey leg right now.

Speaker 4 39:16

Yeah, it's turkey leg time.

Blue Ridge Mountains & Oliver James

Speaker 2 39:19

Yeah, it's just putting me in the mood. This is Blue Ridge Mountain side I'm sorry, blue Ridge Mountains, and it's a hit. So to go by Sounds like church.

Speaker 3 40:10

My brother, where do you intend to go tonight? I heard that you missed your connecting flight To the Blue Ridge Mountain Over near Tennessee.

Speaker 4 40:26

Brothers, don't shake hands.

Speaker 3 40:28

Brothers, gotta hug. You're welcome with me anytime you like. Let's drive to the countryside, Leave behind some green-eyed lookalikes so no one gets worried. No, Get your butt back here, Thelma now. God damn it. No one gets worried no, get back here.

Speaker 4 40:53

You can't just leave something. Green eyed lookalikes. What the hell does that mean? I don't know. Sean getting careless, who's Sean?

Speaker 2 41:01

I know there's been no character development here.

Speaker 4 41:05

Is he a clone? Is he a?

Speaker 2 41:07

blue.

Speaker 3 41:08

Green eyed.

Speaker 2 41:08

He's not even a band member. Yeah, he sees the green eye, whatever.

Speaker 4 41:15

Flash of green light and that was it.

Speaker 1 41:20

Oh brother, oh brother.

Speaker 4 41:40

That's him now. Can somebody dry this dog off?

Speaker 3 41:45

I know, Don't tell me you respect wood and the home got snowed in Rolling on the river.

Speaker 1 42:04

that's where she came from, and the yellow moon glowed bright Till the morning light.

Speaker 4 42:13

Light of my life.

Speaker 3 42:16

Terrible in my child, even if you don't like me Say it. Darling Light of my life River in the forest With a shiver in darkness.

Speaker 4 42:33

We're in a shack in the woods.

Speaker 3 42:44

That was a fail.

Speaker 1 42:52

And I'm prairie dogging and I'm gonna blow by.

Speaker 3 42:58

Till the morning light Terrible in my child, even if you don't mind, no, a bass on that Mm-hmm. Even if you don't mind, no.

Speaker 4 43:15

Bass on that.

Speaker 1 43:15

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 2 43:22

Subtle lines intertwining Just saying let it out, give it some air, man Play with it, that's right.

Speaker 4 43:29

Take a jam, extemporaneous Jam on that. Four more minutes. That song needed like four, four. Yeah, that's a great song, dang it. Just end it there.

Speaker 2 43:45

This is Oliver James. We got to give this one a chance. It's more brother stuff.

Speaker 3 43:57

It's by the river, by the river bridge, a cradle floating beside me In the widest water, on the bank, against the stone. You will lift his body from the shore and bring him home. Oliver James washed in the rain no longer, no longer. Oliver James Washed in the rain no longer.

Speaker 2 44:44

I want to give a shout out to the fans of this song.

Speaker 3 44:48

Oliver James On the kitchen table that your grandfather did make. Grandfather, yes, it's a good table. A lot of family, family and friends, Family, friends death.

Speaker 3 45:16

Remembering fondly Oliver James, washed in the rain, no longer. Oliver James, washed in the rain, no longer. Walk with me down the beach and through the valley floor. Love for the one you no more. Love for the one you no more. For the one you no more. Back we go to your brother's house and, dear my dear, the sound of ancient voices Ringing soft upon your ear. Oliver James, washed in the rain, no longer. Oliver James, washed in the rain, no longer.

Speaker 2 47:06

All right, yeah, that's it, man. I mean, that's the no longer Like it's, and that's a good way to end it, I guess. So it's it's. That was a great song. Yes, very nice so, but you know there's a lot of great songs on here. I can see how it got its reputation after listening to all that, so we should probably get into get right into it. What do you think in terms of your top three?

Speaker 4 47:40

I'm going to go number three, meadowlarks. That was a great song. Yeah, yeah going meadowlarks, just good, good choice. The flight, the nature, it's good reprieve from, from some of their other bangers.

Speaker 2 47:54

Right, you know I'm going to, you know I'm going to say yeah, I'm going to say tiger, mountain peasant song is my number three. Very good, it's a yeah, I'm going to go to the dark side on this one. These, these, uh, these songs about death, yeah, are you know? They fit with the theme and that that was. It was just very melodic and I like the fact that these songs are like straight into the point. They're not too long, right, they're just. They hit you and they don't put in unnecessary fill fill or guitar solo stuff you know, this is like this is this is very unique and it's raw.

Speaker 2 48:41

It's a good album yeah, it's not.

Speaker 4 48:42

Uh, they're not beating around the bush, they're not, yeah, it is, it's a bush that that grandmother planted, like thousands of centuries ago, hey um okay, yeah, we can't get to your number two soon enough. Um, I'm going to go. Sun it rises, the four shadowing riff. Uh, could be a foreshadowing of my number.

Speaker 2 49:07

Okay, oh, wow, okay, that's your number two.

Speaker 4 49:10

Yeah, just right off the bat. Good song it in.

Speaker 2 49:17

I'm going to go Metal Arcs number two. I liked that song. It was good, very good, melodic. I like the theme of the birds, that kind of thing.

Speaker 4 49:36

That was very nice Birds are great Big bird fans here. Okay, you know. Honestly, honorable mention to Quiet Houses, I should say Okay, yeah, that finished strong. Yeah, it did finish strong, it would it was repetitive. My my list is a little repetitive but a great ending. Um, but my number one is ragged wood. Yeah, saw that coming kudos yeah kudos to that. Just had a great bridge. It had the really thought out um sections and the coda yep okay all right, send it back to the coda, that's right yeah, okay, you know I heard them.

Speaker 2 50:30

stirring was pretty good, you like that was the one that didn't have any of the words to it, that was yeah.

Speaker 3 50:36

Yeah.

Speaker 1 50:37

And Oliver.

Speaker 2 50:37

James is in my head now because we ended with that and it was just so like solemn and it was like a also enjoyed. Yeah, it was also enjoyed, you know. But I'm going to have to go with you. Ragged wood is like it's the tops of the non-hits, you know, substantially. Um, it was a longer they just like yeah the whole thing, man, everything that you said and more.

Speaker 4 51:01

It was just a great tune and uh but the hits on this white winter hymnal and blue ridge mountains really piqued my interest first in this album to begin with. So right, shout out to the hits on this yeah, shout out to the hits that might not be hits for everybody, because this band is more, not always, mainstream.

Speaker 2 51:22

Well, yeah, norwegian full indie folk is not, you know it's, it's just not commercially palatable, but um, there's no correlation between popularity and quality, and uh, which is that's the reason why we do the show.

Speaker 4 51:37

We're never spoken. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 51:39

That's the purpose of the show is to.

Speaker 4 51:41

That was your big brain, brad. Comment of the night.

Speaker 2 51:44

All right.

Speaker 1 51:45

So we're going to finish strong yeah.

Speaker 2 51:46

We're tying those. Yeah, tie a bow in it. Simple lines, simple lines, intertwining.