Elvis Perkins
Do yourself a favor and listen to the songs of Elvis Perkins. Here’s part of what his bio for the Sasquatch Music Festival has to say:
Elvis Perkins’ songs are transportive. He takes the listener to another time, another place, toward the end where all worthwhile art must aim: a vision of the singular experience of the artist-in this case, one marked as much by tragedy as by good fortune. In the tradition of Young, Cohen, Dylan, Simon, and Lennon, Perkins issues out songs that are at once personal and universal, combining poetry and melody in a sound unmistakably his own.
It’s amazing stuff. He’ll have a full-length album out soon.