People Who Can Eat People Are The Luckiest People In The World

Goddamn Folk! I don't know what's going on, but i find myself listening to a little bit more folk everyday. This band i've been listening to a lot lately called Andrew Jackson Jihad is a folk band that is really good and really cool. The lead singer Sean Bennett is the main lyricist and has an eloquent way with words and his lyrics have a way of describing the mundane with a touch of human life. The music can be catchy and make you want to move around and other times, they just make you think about life and its many miseries. Like, the song "People" is about Sean's trust in the people of the world and how we are all people regardless of the way we look and dress and our skin and how we look at life.

The music is kind of like a teleporter. One moment, you're on the street corner of New York listening to a street band play for money with an acoustic guitar and an empty bottle of whiskey. The next you could be in the middle of a Southern forest on the porch of an old run down house from the 19th century listening to the music in the distance, strumming a banjo as you just sit back and enjoy the life that was given to you. Some of the songs are fast and kind of upbeat like "Survival". But a lot of the songs are a little slower and more on the depressed/revenge side, like "Little Brother", a song about the protagonist's little brother with fetal alcohol syndrome and his experience with using and selling crack-cocaine to his classmates which eventually led to revenge upon the kids that ridiculed his brother for being born different.

Instead of the usual guitar/bass/drums affair in all the other bands these days, AJJ has only two members Sean Bonette and Ben Gallant. Bonette is the lead singer...ok, maybe singer is a bit of an overstatement. His vocals are powerful and hit you hard, but not in the way you might think. His voice sounds almost like a thirteen year old kid who's still growing up. Wales and cracks in his voice are what make his voice so discernable from other singers. He adds to the music with his acoustic guitar and makes it sound different from other bands. He strums the guitar like crazy and puts his heart into each song. Gallant contributes with the beat with the upright bass and backing vocals. Although he's not the center of attention, he is still an important part of the sound of the band.

I saw them live with Bomb the Music Industry! and that was the first time a saw them. When they played, it was with this huge intensity that was like a wave that went over all of the people in the crowd and i couldn't help but sing a long, only i didn't know the words. That's how intense the band was. They wanted me to yell gibberish at them along with the song. And i think that's pretty special

So, until next time...