take me home

Now that I have this snazzy Shazam application on my i phone, I'm zapping songs left & right.  I think I tagged this catchy tune while shopping in New York.

Well, just the name of this group is quite entertaining – Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

A review reads, "Ask anyone who's held hands with a stranger or danced barefoot
in the front row at an Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros gig:
The 10-piece folk-rock ensemble's shows are more like shamanistic
tent revivals than rock concerts.

Ebert attributes their sound to a conscious
effort on his part to connect with his most childlike musical
impulses.  Those childlike impulses come through in the band's name, too:
There isn't an Edward Sharpe in the group, and Ebert named the band
after the characters in a novel he was writing about a boy who
transcended his dismal world by tapping into some sort of universal
music."

And another cool thing about them, " Back in July, when Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros held an album release party for their debut LP Up From Below,
they raised money to help the Gulu Widows Group of Uganda start a farm
to sustain their community. After the first harvest, they celebrated by
singing the band’s song “Home.”

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