2012 Grammy Awards: chi sono le guerre civili?

2012 Grammy Awards: chi sono le guerre civili?If you're a fan of "The Hunger Games" or Taylor Swift, you've acceptable already heard of the country music accumulation the Civil Wars. This year's Grammy winners for Best Country Duo/Group Achievement and Best Folk Anthology collaborated with Swift on the aboriginal "Hunger Games" single, "Safe & Sound." The duo acted as the aperture act for Swift as they performed their hit "Barton Hollow." So who absolutely are the Civil Wars? Even admitting they're authoritative their boilerplate blemish now, the bandage in fact came out of Nashville in 2008. Members Joy Williams and John Paul White reportedly met during a "professional dark date" songwriting affair at a music flat that year and anon hit it off.
Before absolution an anthology or EP, the Civil Wars recorded their achievement at Georgia's music club Eddie's Attic in 2009 — their additional time assuming calm reside — and fabricated it accessible for chargeless download on the Internet. The set included eight aboriginal songs and a awning of Leonard Cohen's "Dance Me to the End of Love."
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But it wasn't until after that year that the bandage started to apparent in the accessible awareness. In November 2009, White and Williams appear a agenda continued play anthology alleged "Poison & Wine." The appellation clue was featured on "Grey's Anatomy," the ABC medical ball that helped added the careers of added aloof artists like Ingrid Michaelson and The Fray.
It was again that they bent the absorption of Swift. According to the Civil Wars' website, Swift tweeted her adulation of the country duo and included "Poison & Wine" on her official iTunes playlist. "I anticipate this is my admired duet. It's exquisite," she said of the song.
Fast advanced to 2011. The Civil Wars appear their aboriginal flat album, Barton Hollow, in February, and it accomplished #12 on the Billboard albums 2011 chart. It absolutely helped that the bandage was aswell the aperture act for Adele's 2011 North American tour. After in the year, Williams and White rejoined the Grammy champ on her UK bout and were alien to the British music scene.
The duo — who are alone a brace professionally — accept a lot to acknowledge Swift for, abnormally for their accord on "Safe & Sound." Swift will be accommodating in an MTV Aboriginal on Monday at 7:54 p.m., if she will admission the music video for the song, and aswell participate in an absolute babble with MTV News. Fans can abide their questions for Swift via Twitter @MTVNews with the hashtags #AskTaylor or #MTVFirst. "It was [perfect], abnormally enough," Williams told MTV News of accommodating with Swift and artisan T-Bone Burnett. "John Paul and I address all of our own music, so it's not as accepted anymore for us to be accommodating with added people. But, T-Bone and Taylor Swift: It was just natural."
The "Hunger Games" soundtrack, which aswell appearance Arcade Fire and the Decemberists, drops March 20. The cine hits theaters canicule later, on March 23.