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Dipper pines brave sara bareilles
Dipper pines brave sara bareilles







dipper pines brave sara bareilles

Twinned honors go to Emily Mure, another solo artist we’ve touted here before for her delightful covers of Cake’s Mexico and Bowie’s As The World Falls Down. Though Sumner has roots in both the bluegrass and classical worlds, this is true-blue singer-songwriter folk through and through, too: achingly clear, and wide open to the world, with twang and tenderness enough to carry us through the fire of an unusually difficult year on its own. The end result is a simple masterpiece, still lingering long after we first featured it in November’s New Artists, Old Songs mailbag review.

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The songs on The Things You Forgot are as unforgettable in version as they are in the originals as a full disc, their compositional potency comes into focus thanks to clear-as-a-bell production and performance, each precious note sung and strummed a single, deliberate stroke. The five tracks on The Things You Forgot, our tied-for-first Covers EP of the Year from Boston-based roots singer-songwriter Rachel Sumner, enjoyed a slow release throughout the year, giving us time to steep in each song as it came, from the light cowgirl bluegrass of Josh Ritter’s Temptation of Adam in April to a surprisingly faithful layered-vox-and-strum Elliott Smith cover in October by the time the full set came together with a stunningly sweet Simple Twist of Fate four weeks ago, we were already deeply in love. + Margaret and Gregory, Songs for Loving and Dying Come back, soon, for our celebration of the best coverfolk singles of 2019.Īnd may your new year burn bright with possibility, too. Add its gems to your collections, the better to support the artists who serve our souls. It is a list made with love and luck – at 35 songs, and almost two dozen albums, the soundtrack of our long hours of need and desire.Įnjoy it. As always – and perhaps more than ever – it is neither definitive nor comprehensive, merely a celebration of the albums that have stuck, or stunned, or both, in a year where music was more important than ever. It’s good to be back with our 8th annual Year’s Best Coverfolk collection. And here it is, at year’s end, the best still spinning on the tip of our tongues and ears. We are humbled, practically imposters, after being away from the music for so long, and only so recently returned, in laying claim to anyone’s top ten, or five, or one…except our own.įor although we were gone, the music still sustained us. It’s hubris, perhaps, that brings us here – and no small bit of sheer stubbornness, to keep us coming back, for the past month and a bit, since our long, long hiatus through the majority of 2019. The roots and branches of the music of the community, and the heart, in bloom, reborn. Such is our mandate, and our mission here: the comforting under the strange the song of our hearts revealed or transformed. And the knowing of it, when it is at its best, and our need is greatest, is sublime. In the peace of night, it sustains and soothes. In the heartbreak rages and the long walks, it serves us. In our time of need, there is solace, and a second chance built into our calendrical lives.Īnd in the long, quiet hours to and from the adrenalin crises of our lives, music is our guide. They say the turning of the year is symbolic, and to use it so: for reflection, a slate to be cleaned and set, restored, upon the walls of our living spaces. The Year’s Best Coverfolk Singles (2019)Ī-sides, b-sides, deep cuts, one-shots and more!.Sean Watkins, Sam Gleaves, and Anais Mitchell’s new supergroup! (Re)Covered: New Covers from Familiar Folk.

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Isolation Coverfolk: A Social Distancing Playlist.Covers From Home: Music In A Time Of Quarantine.John Statz, The Watkins Family, Jeremy Squires & MUCH more! (Re)covered: New Coverfolk from Old Friends.Notes from Isolation: A Soundtrack for Now.Got questions? Contact me.Ĭover Lay Down is proudly ad-free, but music hosting isn't. Learn more.Īll coverfolk provided solely for sampling purposes, for a short time, to encourage people to buy music, directly from the artist wherever possible. Folkfan since childhood, coverfan since my teens.









Dipper pines brave sara bareilles