Sons of Bill

Americana/ alt-country.  The lead singer sounds like the guy from They Might Be Giants to me. Which makes this good music even more appealing.  Birdhouse in Your Soul, baby! Shades of Wilco/Son Volt and R.E.M. make this sound sweet.  Check this one out in particular, "Arms of the Landslide"

The sound is all Son Volt there, with the TMBG lead singer voice, plus the guitar noodling and tambourine of old R.E.M.  Cool stuff.  That song is off of their 2014 album, Love and Logic, which I liked the best out of the three studio albums offered on Spotify.  The most popular track, by a ton, is also from that album and is called "Road to Canaan," with almost 550k listens.

Winsome and gentle, I have to think that this track was on a soundtrack or something because no other song cracks 100k listens.  "I belong to you darlin', ain't that enough?" Apparently written in Iraq, but singing about Nebraska and the quiet desolation there when everyone is asleep.  The second most listened to track is from their second album, 2009's One Town Away, called "Broken Bottles." Couldn't find the studio version on YouTube, but here is a live track.

They look so pained in singing the song.  But I like this one a bunch - lyrically solid and well played. The band is apparently some brothers (one guess what their Dad's name is!) out of Virginia.  Their third album is called Sirens, and is a little more polished, even with an arena-ready rocker complete with requisite "wooooooaaaahhhhhhhoooooooohhhhh" singalongs (the solid "Turn it Up").  You know what I also hear in here sometimes?  Cracker. Remember Cracker?  I still like Cracker. Another song that I bet gets them some love when they play at home - "Virginia Calling," which is a cool sounding track.

They also have a live disc (With Kerosene Instead) in the midst of their three studio albums, and it sounds like they have a devoted following of screaming beer drinkers ready to party. AND they cover R.E.M.'s "Finest Worksong" on their live album, which is completely kick ass.  Sounds great. Cool find down here in the bottom third of the poster.