Anybody ever heard of this guy? I heard him on NPR the other day.
He accompanies himself on cello.
His style is really distinctive. It reminds me somewhat of Fiona Apple, as in I could see his songs as being written and sung by her.
Here is one video on YouTube for those who’ve never heard of him:
Cello my eye. What a nasty trick to make me listen to banjo music! 
djm
Thanks for the warning. 
Silly me, I checked it out anyway. 
Gawd it’s awful!!!
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Larry
and it’s not clawhammer 
All I could get was some little dot going around and around in circles. In ominous silence. It was horrible.
Dunno…I’ve seen and heard a lot worse
Interesting stuff, and the banjo was an oddly catchy bit of texture against the cello pizzicato. Nice voice. I’d probably take notice if I heard it on the radio.
I got irritated with the video, though. The incessant culvert-dancing in business suits, although clever, before long grew overdone and apropos of nothing; it really didn’t inform the music, particularly the lyrics; the director could have at least kept the dance scenes and broken them up now and then with, like…I dunno…something surreal or dark, say, as both a startling contrast to the lighthearted delivery and yet as something also in oblique keeping with the idea that “boys don’t cry”. You know, make it interesting. Throw some artistic compression in there. As it stands, the video’s one-dimensionality makes it merely incidental to the whole (and thus texturally disposable; nothing would be amiss without it; you could substitute almost anything else just as effectively). It leaves me desperately wanting something more than what it offers, and so I couldn’t stick around and let it finish. I just had to get away from the dancing. That’s music videos for me: I take the visual as part and parcel along with the music. I prefer to see them go together with some meaningfulness. In this case I’d rather have seen the band at work.
BUT: that said, I tend to like unusual musical departures from the norm in the pop realm, and I found nothing one-dimensional about his music in this case, which I appreciated. Can’t say how long and bright his flame will burn, though; he could stick to the cello, but his branching out would have to be astute.
I’m sorry most of you didn’t like it or couldn’t hear it. I liked it, so I thought I’d share it, that’s all.
I dig it. It’s like Bela Flek met up with some of Dave Mathews’ band members
and got Jack Johnson to sing lead. I agree that the video is kind of unfortunate,
though. It’s like some sort of OK, Go ripoff…
Well, that’s four against to four in favor (with two “for” votes disliking the video, which is really irrelevant, as you were talking about the music itself). So, most? Not enough of a sample to say that when it’s practically even as of this post if we include the “can’t say due to technical difficulties” with the “against” votes, which I wouldn’t do.
I liked the music just fine.
Whatever. 
Rather uncharitable of you…
Okay, five to four in favor. Or five to five, if we insist.
too late!
the dude with the tune’s copped a 'tude.
the arrangement was kinda interesting, the vid & lyrics were not overly original
yeah, well…
is okay for a pop thing
Okay, that’s two “whatevers” for the record.
This is getting more complex by the minute.
hey, hey, we’re the Monkeys
You should see the video for his “Sink 'em Low”.
That should defy a few pop sensibilities.
much better!
I liked the basic idea for “Bury Me with My Car”, but, while très hip, the arrangement was a bit too muddy for my ear with all the low frequencies.
More cowbell.