Milk Carton Kids have always been the kind of band you haven’t heard right until you’ve seen them live. Known as much for their banter between their songs, as for the banter between Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan’s harmonious voices and flat-picking steel guitars, the duo were nominated for a Grammy last year for their record ‘The Ash & Clay’ because of this crazy ability to make you laugh one moment and tear up unexpectedly the next. Now with fellow folk artist and Grammy nominee Sarah Jarosz, the two groups are mixing contemporary folk, Americana and roots music together into a frothy new concoction, and they’re serving it to you live at the historic 92Y on October 18th. Join them there so you don’t have to sit through the Grammies again next year. – Mike Levine (@Goldnuggets), photo Matthew Shelter
We added this song to The Deli’s playlist of Best rootsy songs by emerging NYC artists – check it out!