Well, I had a little google on These United States and found they are from Washington DC. So Bill D, get away from your lathe and anciemn folk song books and pop round the corner and check them out. If an old fogey like me can like them, so can you! And I have found them variously described as electro-folk, psych-folk, and alt.country. Yer pays yer money, and yer takes yer choice.