The Boy Least Likely To … do homework
I was going to write this long-winded post today about how you should check out The Boy Least Likely To and go to their show at R+R tomorrow. Instead, maybe Jof from the UK duo can convince you.
Jof: The first record I ever got was a Johnny Cash and Marty Robbins album of gunfighter ballads when I was about seven. I loved that. I always thought I'd grow up to be a cowboy, but I guess there isn't much call for cowboys in the middle of the English countryside. Maybe when I go to America, I can become a cowboy out there. Like Bernie Taupin did.[1]Jof: A lot of the instruments we used were instruments you play when you're a child, like glockenspiels and recorders and all the percussion, cuz they seemed to fit with the lyrics about growing up and lost innocence. And they seemed to give it a simple happy feel touched with a nostalgia for something gone. The more traditional instruments, like harmonicas and banjos, were there cuz we wanted there to be an English folk or American country side to the album. But we didn't put that much thought into it.[1]
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Here is an Be Gentle with Me (MP3) for your listening pleasure. Come experience the loss of innocence for yourself at the show tomorrow. They are also on a supporting tour with James Blunt (not my thing).