Blacktop, Julien Baker / The Raven Boys, Maggie Stiefvater / All the Things..., The Milk Carton Kids
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Song Review: The Milk Carton Kids - “Charlie” (Live, 2023)
As modern folk music goes, it doesn’t get a lot better than the Milk Carton Kids. And “Charlie” is a standout title.
But as they imagine the titular, first-born daughter, Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan realize they have a problem.
Charlie, there’s just one little thing/before we meet, some lovely spring/I have to go and you find you a nice mama/she’ll be just like me and you, perfect in just what we do/love as strong as father and his daughter, Pattengale sings.
Recorded live at 2023’s Green Mountain Bluegrass & Roots festival, the track finds Pattengale and Ryan intertwining their acoustic guitars and voices like the great harmony duos that preceded them. And, as this just-released video makes clear, they’re every bit as perfect on stage as in studio.
Grade card: The Milk Carton Kids - “Charlie” (Live, 2023) - A
3/28/24
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listening to maybe it's time by the milk carton kids over and over and over again till each note permeates my bones and the wind rattles in the hollow of my chest
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The Milk Carton Kids - New York Lonely Boy (Official Audio)
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new milk carton kids ep dropped time to suffer
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Michigan - The Milk Carton Kids
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From the start I moved heaven and earth
just to take you to dinner, and boy,
was that worth all the years
that would follow us around and around
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well i think i’m gonna work construction just to make something of myself i can’t live off these childhood trophies on my shelf i want to get my hands dirty i want to feel the burning in my legs i want more than the receipt for what i paid because everybody loves something new cus you can open it and plug it in and it feels like a good nights sleep like the girl you like paid you a compliment they can keep the change and they can keep ‘em coming they can talk to who’s listening but i’m still looking for something a little more permanent i am not a poet show me the easy way and i’ll do it no one can ever say that i’ve been trying way too hard cus everything i have ever owned got dusty and old so i threw it out just to make myself some room i’m like everybody i love something new cus you can open it and plug it in and it feels like a good nights sleep like the girl you like paid you a compliment they can keep the change and they can keep ‘em coming they can talk to who’s listening but i’m still looking for something that i can die with if my luck is running out please don’t let it be so with love it’s been a long year but i’m not ready to give up cus even if i lay ten million bricks and they break through the summer haze someone will come around and bulldoze them down someday because everybody loves something new you get rid of what came before and it feels like a long hot shower like getting in your bed when the sheets are warm so they can keep construction they can keep ‘em coming and i won’t be listening cus i found something a little more permanent oh yes i found someone that i can die with
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Song Review: Milk Carton Kids - “North County Ride” (Live on eTown)
As if anyone doubted it, the Milk Carton Kids’ next album will translate flawlessly on to the stage.
Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan performed “North Country Ride” recently on “eTown.” The live version represented the fifth song to emerge ahead of I Only See the Moon’s May 19 release and demonstrated yet again that the only way the Kids on stage differ from the Kids in studio is their guitars and voices sound purer in the former setting.
Melancholic as ever, the Milk Carton Kids’ flawless vocal harmonies and guitar interplay infuse their morose lyrics with deep-seated feeling of being alive when they sing:
I know how hard it is to fight with the whole of the world/I know the scars you had, the most beautiful scars
Morbidly depressing stuff. Yet the Kids’ blood-kin-minus-shared-DNA harmonies and intwined strings emphasize the sweetness of life over the bitterness of traversing it.
Grade card: Milk Carton Kids - “North County Ride” (Live on eTown) - A-
5/3/23
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Old snake eyes
You had better disguise
All that appears of thee.
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Stealing Romance - The Milk Carton Kids
I get away stealing romance
From those who have left it behind
I'll be the step in your slow dance
This time
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