This week's Free Single is a laid-back road song from songsmith trio The Low Anthem. "To Ohio" is a chilled out, summery track that seems to conjure up images of campfires and cowboys. Saddle up the ponies, its rustlin' time! Aside from the clichéd use of the harmonica amongst the acoustic melodies, lead singer Ben Knox Miller does kindly refrain from actually talking about sleeping under the stars, which would make sense seeing as he's from New Jersey. It'd be like me slapping on a Cockney accent and complaining about how my market stall in the East End isn't attracting very much business these days, and how I'm having "an auntie an' uncle finding some bunsen".
The folk-rock feel of this track evokes similarities between Iron & Wine or even José Gonzales, though keeps a marked independance from the more recognisable artists present in the genre. It seems odd that even though The Low Anthem have two full studio albums, they have only just been featured on IFS; this song appears to have "compilation album" stamped all over it.
"Oh My God, Charlie Darwin" and "What The Crow Brings" are both up for sale on iTunes right now - get them while they're still cheap because they're probably not worth spending real money on (it would damage the hobo-image they are so painfully projecting. "Look at me, I have fingerless gloves and I eat out of cans! Let me play you a bluegrass song!!!").
Genius reccomendations for this song were; The Felice Brothers; Jack Johnson; Alabama 3; A Weather and Iron & Wine
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