BlindWineTrapper : freak folk on stage
08/Aug/2009 |
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This is a 2 hour mix of my favorite recent NPR "All Songs Considered" live concert podcasts. It features Blind Pilot, Iron & Wine, Blitzen Trapper, Feist, Bon Iver and The Decemberists. All but the Iron & Wine concert, which is from 2005, are recent concerts from the past few months. I love the freak folk renaissance of acoustic-based music with lots of moodiness, wit and beauty, and these bands are just about the best in that genre. Enjoy!
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Iron & Wine * Newport Folk Festival 2009
08/Aug/2009 |
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While Iron and Wine has evolved from its bedroom beginnings to full ensemble status, the warmth of Sam Beam's songs remain. (That is, if by warmth you mean bleak heartbreak, dark realizations and uncomfortable vulnerability.) Iron and Wine continues to wring inventive sounds and compelling emotions out of the American folk-music form, as it demonstrated at Folk Festival 50 on Saturday.
Iron and Wine's latest collection, Around the Well, compiles two discs' worth of B-sides, soundtrack and compilation tracks and previously unreleased goodies. Even though Beam's debut album, The Creek Drank the Cradle, was released only seven years ago, the new album is a reminder of just how far Iron and Wine has come. It's easy to hear the progression from self-recorded four-track folk to full-blown rock, especially in the unexpected likes of the Middle Eastern-inspired "Arms of a Thief."
Set List
"Such Great Heights"
"Woman King"
"Resurrection Fern"
"Sodom, South Georgia"
"Godless Brother in Love"
"Upward Over the Mountain"
"Naked as We Came"
"Peace Beneath the City"
"Love Songs and Some Verses"
"He Lays in the Reins"
"The Trapeze Swinger"
"Glad Mouth River"
"Flightless Bird, American Mouth"
"Sunset Soon Forgotten"
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Gillian Welch & David Rawlings * Newport Folk
Festival 2009
08/Aug/2009 |
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It wasn't clear that Gillian Welch was even going to make it in time to the Newport Folk Festival's Fort Adams stage to perform her set. Her plane was five hours late, and she hit a traffic jam coming into Newport. Enter a police escort that found her car and escorted her all the way backstage, with roughly 30 seconds to spare. That wasn't long enough for Welch to put in her contact lenses, so she went without. She faced the blurry, 9,000-plus crowd — and the boats anchored in the distance — with her longtime performing partner David Rawlings beside her.
It's been years since Welch has put out a new album or performed frequently, but she's a fixture at the Newport Folk Festival no matter what. With Rawlings at her side Saturday, Welch treated fans to many of her classics — each drenched in the pair's trademark close harmonies — and threw in a reverb-drenched cover of Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit" for good measure.
Welch first surfaced on the pop-cultural radar with her 1996 debut, Revival, which transported fans back to the 1920s while maintaining a foot in the present. Producer T-Bone Burnett kept the album's focus on Welch and Rawlings. She followed that album with more full-length releases, as well as appearances on several soundtracks, such as Songcatcher and the chart-topping O, Brother, Where Art Thou? Both albums placed Welch and Rawlings squarely in the middle of the traditional American folk revival.
Set List
"I Want to Hear That Rock 'n' Roll"
"Elvis Presley Blues"
"My First Lover"
"No One Knows My Name"
"It's Too Easy"
"Miss Ohio"
"The Way It Will Be"
"Red Clay Halo"
"Dear Someone"
"White Rabbit"
"Orphan Girl"
"Revelator"
"I'll Fly Away"
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Fleet Foxes * Newport Folk Festival 2009
08/Aug/2009 |
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The Fleet Foxes' self-titled debut was one of 2008's most critically adored records. The Seattle band pairs layers of harmonized vocals — the sort of sound that could have emerged from the 1920s or the 1970s — with shuffling drums and finger-picked guitars. In keeping with the band's name, the record's song titles ("Meadowlarks," "Blue Ridge Mountains," "Ragged Wood") suggest a bucolic vision of nature, though lead singer Robin Pecknold's lyrics occasionally hint at violence ("And Michael you would fall / and turn the white snow red / as strawberries in summertime," from "White Winter Hymnal").
Fleet Foxes' members spent the majority of 2008 on the road before taking a break to work on a follow-up to their debut. The band's performances in 2009 have been fewer but higher in profile: It played Saturday Night Live in January and Coachella in April. Currently on tour, Fleet Foxes played the All Points West festival at Liberty State Park in Jersey City, N.J., the day before taking the stage at Newport.
Set List
"Sun Giant"
"Sun It Rises"
"Drops in the River"
"English House"
"Bedouin Dress"
"White Winter Hymnal"
"Ragged Wood"
"Your Protector"
"Oliver James"
"Mykonos"
"Blue Ridge Mountains"
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Bon Iver * 9.10.08 * MySpace Transmission
15/Feb/2009 |
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Loving all-things-Bon-Iver these days, and his debut album For Emma, Long Ago, is just too short! It is a perfect and complete recording that satisfies me in so many ways, but at less than 40 minutes, I am always left wanting more when the last track fades. So, in my search around the internets for more Bon Iver music, I came across this excellent 4-song live set that MySpace was giving away for free. I downloaded it, mixed it in to one track, added chapters and artwork -- voila!
We here at the Podcast Cafe's Live Archive hope you enjoy it.
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Fleet Foxes on BBC Radio 2
19/Oct/2008 |
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The Fleet Foxes, performing songs and being interviewed in the BBC Radio 2 studios last February. I dug this session out and am posting it here at the Live Archive due to overwhelmingly popular response to the previous set I posted last weekend, which you can download or stream here.
As a bonus to this short BBC session, I've added two rare and unreleased studio tracks from the Foxes that I found trolling the internets: "Isles" and an alternative version of one of my favorite FF tunes "Mykonos."
Enjoy! And check out the Fundiblog for YouTube videos, Flickr photos and a concert review of their sold-out, mid-blowing show in Bellingham last weekend.
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Fleet Foxes * 7.25.08 * Washington, DC
19/Oct/2008 |
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I just saw the Fleet Foxes live for the first time last night up in the acoustically-perfect Performing Arts Center at Western Washington University here in Bellingham, WA (that's where the above photos are from). The amazing concert inspired me to post this live set of them playing last July; I got it from NPR and am sharing the wealth.
Video of the Foxes performing at this Bellingham performance are at Youtube here and here, or together on the same page with a show review at the Fundiblog. Oh, and a few more photos over at Flickr.
NPR's description of the band and this set after the jump...
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"From the
moment they took the stage at Washington, DC's Black
Cat, Fleet Foxes seemed surprised by all the
attention. Lead singer Robin Pecknold made several
references to the size of the crowd, telling the
sold-out audience he'd never seen so many people
packed together. This brought a loud cheer from the
roomful of fans who otherwise spent most of the night
standing in slack-jawed awe over the band's
breathtaking harmonies.
After a tentative start, Fleet Foxes seemed to find their collective voice, opening with "Sun Giant," the title track to the band's EP, released earlier this year on the Sub Pop label. They followed with highlights from their self-titled debut LP, including "White Winter Hymnal." Throughout the performance, the band played with a sort of bemused astonishment, repeatedly thanking the audience for their support.
The members of Fleet Foxes like to say they're not much of a rock band, but they are one of the year's breakout acts. The group's debut has earned universal acclaim for its timeless mix of folk, choral and rock. It's both a revival and a reinvention of roots music, with inspired attention given to melody and harmony.
Fleet Foxes' sound can be traced directly to the music the band members' parents played: The Beach Boys, Simon and Garfunkel, The Zombies, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Crosby Stills and Nash. "We grew up listening to the music of our parents," says Fleet Foxes frontman Robin Pecknold. "Every perennial '60s band you'd expect to find in the record collections of baby boomers."
It's easy to hear these influences in Fleet Foxes' earthy tones, jangling, acoustic guitars and pastoral imagery. The band has described it as "baroque harmonic pop." The choral-like vocals have drawn comparisons to My Morning Jacket, a band that has, itself, borrowed heavily from the past.
"To me, the most enjoyable thing in the world is to sing harmony with people," says Pecknold. "All we strove for with this record was to make something that was an honest reflection of who we are, citizens of the western United States who love all kinds of music and above all else love singing."
Fleet Foxes formed in 2006 in Seattle, Wash. After playing a number of live shows, and with the help of credit cards a tip money, they recorded and self-released an EP that same year. They followed in Feb. 2008 with the EP Sun Giant and their full-length debut in June, both on Sub Pop."
--NPR's All Songs Considered.
After a tentative start, Fleet Foxes seemed to find their collective voice, opening with "Sun Giant," the title track to the band's EP, released earlier this year on the Sub Pop label. They followed with highlights from their self-titled debut LP, including "White Winter Hymnal." Throughout the performance, the band played with a sort of bemused astonishment, repeatedly thanking the audience for their support.
The members of Fleet Foxes like to say they're not much of a rock band, but they are one of the year's breakout acts. The group's debut has earned universal acclaim for its timeless mix of folk, choral and rock. It's both a revival and a reinvention of roots music, with inspired attention given to melody and harmony.
Fleet Foxes' sound can be traced directly to the music the band members' parents played: The Beach Boys, Simon and Garfunkel, The Zombies, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Crosby Stills and Nash. "We grew up listening to the music of our parents," says Fleet Foxes frontman Robin Pecknold. "Every perennial '60s band you'd expect to find in the record collections of baby boomers."
It's easy to hear these influences in Fleet Foxes' earthy tones, jangling, acoustic guitars and pastoral imagery. The band has described it as "baroque harmonic pop." The choral-like vocals have drawn comparisons to My Morning Jacket, a band that has, itself, borrowed heavily from the past.
"To me, the most enjoyable thing in the world is to sing harmony with people," says Pecknold. "All we strove for with this record was to make something that was an honest reflection of who we are, citizens of the western United States who love all kinds of music and above all else love singing."
Fleet Foxes formed in 2006 in Seattle, Wash. After playing a number of live shows, and with the help of credit cards a tip money, they recorded and self-released an EP that same year. They followed in Feb. 2008 with the EP Sun Giant and their full-length debut in June, both on Sub Pop."
--NPR's All Songs Considered.
Iron & Wine * 11.4.07 * Bellingham
28/Dec/2007 |
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A fine recording of Iron & Wine, fronted by Sam Beam and his sister Sarah, at the Mount Baker Theater in Bellingham, Washington on the cold, drizzly, dark night of November 4, 2007.
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