Punch Brothers (Chris Thile) Wayside

[ericwolff6]

nice filming! You clearly know the song. I'm glad the punch brothers play this. Its one of my favorites off how to grow a woman (next to the instrumentals cazadero and eleventh reel). Hope they play it when I see them.

thanks for getting this on youtube!

[volleyballjones]

Punch Brothers are great!

[dizzey05]

This is the best bluegrass video I have seen in a long time!

It made my day :)

[Lukeypoo91]

This song deserves a rowdier audience!

[mrlandby]

Thile's voice is phenomenal. He's a high baritenor with a gorgeous upper chest voice and essentially no break between chest and falsetto. His pitch is as close to perfect as I've heard, and to top it all off, he's singing while playing virtuosic mandolin parts only a handful of people in the world can play as well. He could make it as a singer, or a mandolin player, but in combining the two he is crazy good. (I say this as a singer and mandolin player myself).

[lrover03]

Eat yer heart out Ricky Skaggs, LOL! :))

[samiamfink]

They played this in their encore last night here in Ann Arbor... just incredible.

[mattphat23]

hey is so sexy. :)

[Vswimmer2012]

i totaly a gree with you, Chris is the hottest most talented peron evar!

[bromberg25]

what are you talking about he singing is great! he can hit all those high notes

[juli0sus]

He can throw down mandolin and star in Twilight! Is there anything Robert Pattinson can't do? :O

;-)

[berkeleymlkhouse]

I didn't mean he's off-key or anything like that. I just meant that his voice is pretty forgettable and lacks that certain charismatic pull that some singers have.

In short, it just doesn't appeal to me. But the musicality of these guys? Holy Cow!!

[blugrastooth]

i could agree with your analysis. nothing real soulful about it. i mean he's a good vocalist but an outstanding instrumentalist. He's, technically speaking, waaaaaaaaaaay up there with the likes of sam bush, jesse cobb, etc.

[koreankayagum]

Chris Thile's mandolin playing is almost without peer, but as a singer I find him pretty average. I really prefer his instrumentals.

[pianomatteo]

I would actually have to disagree with you. His intonation (and the entire groups) is so tight it may as well be a synthesizer. I'm almost certain he must have perfect pitch or a phenomenal ear because they often start their acappela pieces with no pitch. But really, I've seen him 4 times in concert and every time his singing is so in tune and spot on it's out of this world. I'm not trying to down talk his playing at all, just saying I truly admire his and his groups vocals just as much.

[jazzfolkrocker]

@pianomatteo that's something you see in REAL LIVE music... these guys, like most musicians of a truly acoustic vein, sound just as good standing in a dusty field unplugged, vocaly AND instrumentally, and that is something pop musicians can't do.

[dkale]

I saw them in Luisville the day before this! Some guy kept yelling for them to play this song and when they finally did Chris said, "And now we're gonna play..." and pointed to the guy! And the guy said nothing!

It was hillarious! Chris pointed at him like four times! And he never said anything!

[MilesPittman]

that's awesome!

[dragknuckle]

I loved Gillian Welch's original version, but this is incredible.

[chrisricker]

That's awesome!

I wish they would do a show in Toronto!!

[mandolinking]

Did you get a video of when Chris Eldridge stepped on Greg's mic and they had to start over? :D

[deneicee]

No. Missed that one!

[deneicee]

My pleasure! I love these guys!

[starthrowbanjo]

thank you so much for sharing all of these