Roots music revivalists have begun to get a bad rap recently - especially thanks to the influx of banjo-strumming posers like Mumford & Sons and The Lumineers - but the Littlest Birds more than pass the smell test. Coming from the mountain town of Bishop, Calif., this cello-and-banjo duo does well in capturing the sort of humbly catchy Dust Bowl-era folk that used to dominate lonely radio stations on long stretches of desolate country road. David Huebner's utilization of the cello is particularly inspired, capturing as it does both the sound and feel of the genre's requisite fiddle, while lending a certain depth that would have been lost without an upright bass or something similar. The Littlest Birds manage to revive these old sounds without attempting to modernize them or mash them up with pop, which is rather refreshing these days.

THE LITTLEST BIRDS, 10 p.m., Le Voyeur, 404 E. Fourth Ave., Olympia, 360.943.5710