piece of shep

It’s been a while since I did a song of the week. This is mostly due to the fact that I’ve been playing CunninLynguists’ Dirty Acres almost non stop since it released in November. It is truly a great album. Anyway, a song from the band The Honey Brothers was going to be my next SOTW a while ago but I never got around to posting it. To give you a little background of The Honey Brothers, they are a New York based band. The most notable part about the band is that Entourage star Adrian Grenier is in the band. According to their website, The Honey Brothers formed about one dog year ago at ukulele fantasy camp in Requiem, Mass. They learned to harmonize by listening attentatively to the usual: Bill Munroe, gospel, early Wings recordings. They experimented lots: e.g. mastered the art of fa-so-la singing, advanced human beatbox technique in ways that have gone underappreciated to this day. Like many other bands they developed an “it.”

They are a band that does not take themselves seriously and on their website you can see videos for their songs that display that sentiment. It’s not great music, but it’s fun music. It’s something you can listen to and enjoy, if not for the use of random instruments and skits, then for the comedy in the lyrics. Anyway, the song I’ve chosen, from their album Songs for Your Sister is a song entitled “Monkeywrencher Love Song.” I hope you enjoy it. You can pick up their album in the iTunes Music Store.

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