This is kind of weird, but Andrew Bird's "Danse Carribe" reminds me of the music from the village festival in the beginning of the movie Willow, especially after the fiddle break around the three minute mark. And just like the record, "Talking Empty Bed Blues" was a real stunner. I saw these fellers live and it was a similar story. I wouldn't call it the most balanced record I've ever heard, but it's plenty nice. "Talking Empty Bed Blues" comes from a Woody Guthrie tribute album featuring four singer-songwriters, Yim Yames a.k.a. The song's album, Half Way Home, is it's equal and way recommended. And what a voice - it has that distinctiveness to it that I find so affecting, like a Karen Dalton or a Dolly Parton. Like she plucked it out of the ether, still malleable, and shaped it with her voice. The sound of it is immediately familiar, yet uniquely Angel's. I'm pretty thrilled with the first song, and I hope you are too. This happens in your declining years, I'm told. Even that is only a half-truth, as my ears were a-tuned less to new music this year and more to new-to-me music from days gone by than they have been in the past. This represents not what may be the best 2012 had to offer, but what I spent most of my time listening to. As I am wont to do in December, here again is mix made from music released in the past year.
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