First and foremost I have to thank Craig for The National, I'd bought Alligator listened once and thrown it in a dark corner, then Craig kept going on about it and I tried again, they are now one of my favourite bands.
Second, major thanks to Cod for posting a link to Talk on Intolerance The Avett Brothers are my second favourite band
The Czars..any album
M.Ward
The Pernice Brothers
The Havenots
Hawksley Workman
Mark Mallman (damn there's a lot of Craig influnces here
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Jeffrey Foucault
Carissa's Wierd (bobby Tonge, where for art thou?)