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339. Antje Duvekot

January 28, 2010 – 1:28 am

I discovered Antje Duvekot through her song “Merry-Go-Round” as it played in a bank commercial and have bought several versions of it over time.  A higher-fi audio of the version below is the 15th most frequently played song in my I-tunes and I-pod since the summer of 2008.  That’s 15th out of 14,344 songs.  It’s [...]

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Bob Dylan’s "Boots Of Spanish Leather" As Performed By Dervish

October 8, 2009 – 9:10 pm

I actually heard and fell in love with a Dervish recording of this Dylan classic before ever hearing Dylan’s beautiful original itself.  This is not quite as spot-on a performance as the Dervish recording I have, it’s a little rougher in an organically live and alive way, but nonetheless it’s a must for Dylan fanatics and [...]

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Neko Case At The Newport Folk Festival

August 5, 2009 – 1:35 am

Courtesy of NPR (and found via Faith In Honest Doubt) comes the lovely and spectacular indie country siren singer/songwriter/newpornographer, Neko Case.  One of my very favorite singers, if you love her enjoy this concert and if you don’t know her get on with the falling in love: Neko Case Newport Folk Festival

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Lisa Hannigan's Lille

July 6, 2009 – 1:41 pm

The embed has been disabled but I highly recommend you click this link to the irrepressibly charming Lisa Hannigan’s beautiful, arts and craftsy video to her elegant, breathy, perfectly phrased folk song “Lille”. Her whole album Sea Sew beats out dozens and dozens of competitors on my ipod to be one of the few I [...]

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