Megafaun
Based in Durham, North Carolina Megafaun is brothers Brad and Phil Cook and Joe Westerlund. The trio of Wisconsin Boys has been playing music together since 1997 when they all attended the same jazz camp. The three of them, along with longtime friend Justin Vernon (who most of you know as Bon Iver) made the cross country trip to Durham as the band “DeYarmond Edison”, but disbanded the project in 2006. Megafaun was formed shortly afterwards and found themselves a new home; the road. They booked their first tour, a seven show series, before writing any songs and since then have played roughly 250 shows over the course of the last two years. Right now they are over in Europe but will be back in The States by April. I haven’t heard a lot of their stuff, but what I have heard is good. Their latest offering, “Gather, Form & Fly” has gotten excellent press. The couple songs I’ve linked below are a couple of my favorites I’ve heard. Be sure to go to their myspace page and listen to some of their studio stuff there.
Enjoy, Ben.
**If you like Neil Young I think you'll really like “Kaufman’s Ballad
Solid Gold on Daytrotter:
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These guys are great!