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Another Day Down

Arrow

Bye Bye Baby Blues

Released on 13th May 2012 via YouTube.
From 'Fairytales'

Better Than You

Sam Amidon - Walkin' Boss

From the album Tomorrow Is My Turn

The landscape of American music is littered with the ghosts of the unknowable and mysterious blues musician, scratchy voices on a 78 conjuring up an era and an energy long gone. No one represents this better, perhaps, than Geeshie Wiley, who, along with equally unknown L.V. Thomas, recorded a handful of sides for Paramount Records in 1930–31. “Last Kind Word Blues” calls to me in a way that I can’t really explain, but when producer T Bone Burnett suggested it for the record, I knew instantly it was the way to begin.

Tomorrow Is My Turn

Last Kind Words

From the album Tomorrow Is My Turn

This is one of many African-American spirituals that have been set for classical voice and piano – this one was arranged by the celebrated black tenor Roland Hayes. I was captivated by Florence Quivar’s rendition of it and brought it to the session – the challenge was to translate this spiritual through a classical lens back to the vernacular side. Gabe Witcher took the original Hayes arrangement and chordal structure and broke it down between guitar, banjo, and double bass, and I strove to find a timbre that fit in.

Round About the Mountain

Alta Falls

Never Been a Captain

Cigarettes & Truckstops

Murder Of Crows

Between Two Shores

Wreckless Heart

Just need a little more time
To say what I need to say
You’re walkin’ away that’s fine
I’ll just come back another day
Cause you’re the only one who gets me all strung out

But there’s big waves at the coast line
Just need a little more time
Land movin at the bottom of the sea
Don’t know when the waves will come down on me

Runnin’ fast in no direction 
Through the San Francisco rain
Didn’t know where we were goin’
So we just hopped a train
Thats the kind of thing that gets me all strung out

But there’s big waves at the coast line
Just need a little more time
Land movin’ at the bottom of the ocean
Don’t know where the next wave’s goin’

Don’t say it’s gonna be alright
Cause I might fall for it
Just when you think you’re doin’ fine
That’s when you get hit
Well maybe I’m just all strung out

Big waves all around the ocean 
Don’t know where the next one’s goin’
Big waves at the coastline
Everybody wants a little more time
Just when you feel so safe
Waves come and sweep it all away

Tsunami

That Wasn't Me

Jen's response to Katy Perry's "I Kissed A Girl"

I Didn't Just Kiss Her

Falling Up

"Raise Hell" by Brandi Carlile
Album: Bear Creek

Raise Hell

Under Pressure

Rhiannon Giddens is a celebrated artist who excavates the past to reveal truths about our present. A MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient, Giddens has been Grammy-nominated six times, and won once, for her work with the Carolina Chocolate Drops, a group she co-founded. Pitchfork has said of her “few artists are so fearless and so ravenous in their exploration,” and Smithsonian Magazine calls her “an electrifying artist who brings alive the memories of forgotten predecessors, white and black.”

Round About the Mountain

Rhiannon Giddens

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