Sunday, February 10, 2013

From Vineyard Church to the Grammys: Mumford & Sons

Album of the year. The Big Kahuna.

Mumford & Sons won Album of the Year in 2013


Though it’s considered a British band, founder Marcus Mumford was born in California to ministers at the Vineyard Church, which held that the world was under Satanic domination.

There’s a childhood to inspire you.

Some say their appeal is partly because of their sartorial choices, but more for their music which mixes Contemporary Musicians describes“folk and bluegrass flavors with a good deal of literary ambition.”

Mumford became interested in this music when he received a copy of the soundtrack to O Brother, Where Art Thou? “He considered bluegrass ideas music for traveling. CM tells us "Like John Steinbeck said, a journey is the thing in itself….England doesn't have the wide-open frontiers America has, but with those bluegrass tunes on the car stereo, you are almost there."

Quoting Steinbeck. Literary ambition. Perhaps next will be The Great American Album.

For now, you can get the songs on all their albums free, if you download them from Freegal.


Source:
"Mumford & Sons." Contemporary Musicians. Vol. 74. Detroit: Gale, 2012. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 11 Feb. 2013.

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