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Jul 18, 2010, 11:32am Sweetheart of the Radio
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Mark Linkous

Mar 7, 2010, 2:53pm Sweetheart of the Radio
Mark Linkous 1962 - 2010 MP3: Sparklehorse - It's A Wonderful Life
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Artist:Sparklehorse
Title:It's A Wonderful Life
Link Text:Sparklehorse - It's A Wonderful Life
File Name:Sparklehorse - It's A Wonderful Life.mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps
Year:2001

A Short Film About Linda Perhacs

Feb 1, 2010, 3:00pm Sweetheart of the Radio
"Parallelograms" - A Short Film About Linda Perhacs
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Bobby Charles

Jan 15, 2010, 8:18am Sweetheart of the Radio
Bobby Charles February 21, 1938 - January 14, 2010 MP3: Bobby Charles - I Must Be In A Good Place Now Bobby Charles Wiki
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Artist:Bobby Charles
Title:I Must Be In A Good Place Now
Link Text:Bobby Charles - I Must Be In A Good Place Now
File Name:Bobby Charles - I Must Be In A Good Place Now.mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps
Year:1972

Sweetheart Of The Radio: Albums Of The Year 2009 (5 - 1)

Dec 28, 2009, 8:54am Sweetheart of the Radio
Sweetheart Of The Radio: Albums Of The Year 2009 (5 - 1) 5. Richmond Fontaine - We Used To Think The Freeway Sounded Like A River MP3: Richmond Fontaine - We Used To Think The Freeway Sounded Like A River Richmond Fontaine On Myspace Support The Artist. Buy. Buy. Buy. Previously On SOTR: Willy Vlautin ---------------------------- 4. Wilco - Wilco (The Album) [...]
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Artist:Bill Callahan
Title:Faith / Void
Link Text:Bill Callahan - Faith/Void
File Name:Bill Callahan - Faith _ Void.mp3
Year:2009
Artist:Phosphorescent
Title:It's Not Supposed To Be That Way
Link Text:Phosphorescent - It's Not Supposed To Be That Way
File Name:Phosphorescent - It's Not Supposed To Be That Way.mp3
Year:2009
Artist:Richmond Fontaine
Title:We Used To Think The Freeway Sounded Like A River
Link Text:Richmond Fontaine - We Used To Think The Freeway Sounded Like A River
File Name:Richmond Fontaine - We Used To Think The Freeway Sounded Like A River.mp3
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Year:2009
Artist:Wilco
Title:Solitaire
Link Text:Wilco - Solitaire
File Name:Wilco - Solitaire.mp3
Year:2009

Sweetheart Of The Radio: Albums Of The Year 2009 (10 - 6)

Dec 27, 2009, 7:56am Sweetheart of the Radio
Sweetheart Of The Radio: Albums Of The Year 2009 (10 - 6) 10. Castanets - Texas Rose, The Thaw & The Beats MP3: Castanets - Down The Line, Love Castanets on Myspace Support The Artist. Buy.Buy.Buy. Previously On SOTR: Castanets ---------------------------- 9. Espers - III MP3: Espers -The Road [...]
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Artist:Alela Diane
Title:Age Old Blue
Link Text:Alela Diane - Age Old Blue
File Name:Alela Diane - Age Old Blue.mp3
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Year:2009
Artist:Espers
Title:The Road Of Golden Dust
Link Text:Espers -The Road Of Golden Dust
File Name:Espers -The Road Of Golden Dust.mp3
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Year:2009
Artist:Grizzly Bear
Title:Two Weeks
Link Text:Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
File Name:Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks.mp3
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Year:2009

Vic Chesnutt

Dec 25, 2009, 5:28pm Sweetheart of the Radio
Vic Chesnutt November 12, 1964 – December 25, 2009 MP3: Vic Chesnutt - Dodge Vic Chesnutt wiki Photo Credit: Greg Stewart
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Artist:Vic Chesnutt
Title:Dodge
Link Text:Vic Chesnutt - Dodge
File Name:vic chesnutt - Dodge.mp3
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Year:2004

The Funeral

Nov 5, 2009, 4:04pm Sweetheart of the Radio
The Funeral Working on whittling down my list of albums of the decade, there are obviously going to be albums that don't make the list, but which contain individual songs that would make my songs of the decade list if I had the inclination and time to make such a list (I don't). One such song would be "The Funeral" by Band Of Horses. Taken from their 2007 debut album Everything All The Time , "The Funeral", for me, is a perfectly written, perfectly executed song. Continuing my recent attempts of writing about covers that I like, [...]
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Artist:Band Of Horses
Title:The Funeral
Link Text:Band Of Horses - The Funeral
File Name:2463.mp3
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Artist:Serena Ryder & The Beauties
Title:The Funeral
Link Text:Serena Ryder - The Funeral
File Name:Serena Ryder & The Beauties - The Funeral.mp3
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Year:2009

Mountain Man

Nov 5, 2009, 8:57am Sweetheart of the Radio
Mountain Man My favorite new musical discovery is Mountain Man, which is the the best accompaniment I have found for the onset of winter. The band make intimate, harmony based, sad folk songs that are as fragile as the falling leaves outside my window. Mountain Man is three girls from Vermont, Amelia Meath, Molly Sarle, and Alex Sauser-Monnig, who recorded their self-titled album over the course of two sessions in 2009, one in January and the other in May. The album is available via Bandcamp with a 7" released promised soon via Open Face Records . [...]
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Artist:Mountain Man
Title:Animal Tracks
Link Text:Mountain Man - Animal Tracks
File Name:Mountain Man - Animal Tracks.mp3
Year:2009
Artist:Mountain Man
Title:White Heron
Link Text:Mountain Man - White Heron
File Name:Mountain Man - White Heron.mp3
Year:2009

Boduf Songs

Oct 30, 2009, 1:17pm Sweetheart of the Radio
Boduf Songs Boduf Songs is Mat Sweet, a young man from Southampton, England who makes dark, psych tinged, textured folk music.To my ears he sounds like a moodier version of the Elliott Smith of "Needle In The Hay" or "Roman Candle" crossed perhaps with Charalambides or James Yorkston played at half speed. Boduf Songs eponymous debut album was released on the Kranky label in 2005 after the label came across a CD-R of home recorded demos made by Sweet and were so blown away, decided to release the demos untouched, without any re-recordings. Two albums [...]
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Artist:Boduf Songs
Title:I Can't See a Thing in Here
Link Text:Boduf Songs - I Can't See A Thing In Here
File Name:Boduf Songs - I Can't See a Thing in Here.mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps
Year:2008
Artist:Boduf Songs
Title:Oh Celebrate Your Vague Words and Coquettish Sovereignty
Link Text:Boduf Songs - Oh Celebrate Your Vague Words and Coquettish Sovereignty
File Name:Boduf Songs - Oh Celebrate Your Vague Words and Coquettish Sovereignty.mp3
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Year:2005

Arborea

Oct 30, 2009, 8:05am Sweetheart of the Radio
Arborea Writing a music blog you get whole load of emails from PR companies and bands who want you to write about their stuff. I try and listen to everything I get sent, but if I am to be honest, I like very little of what I hear. Every once in a while, however, I receive some communications about an artist that I do like, who to my ears sound great and who I am really happy to write about. Case in point: Arborea, the husband and wife duo, Buck and Shanti Curran, from deep in the Western Maine [...]
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Artist:Arborea
Title:Beirut
Link Text:Arborea - Beirut
File Name:Arborea - Beirut.mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps
Year:2009
Artist:Arborea
Title:Dark Is The Night (In The Wind)
Link Text:Arborea - Dark Is The Night (In The Wind)
File Name:arborea - Dark Is The Night (In The Wind).mp3
Year:2008

Townes

Oct 29, 2009, 8:44am Sweetheart of the Radio
Townes Recently while set on shuffle, my iPod keeps playing tracks from the Steve Earle album Townes , which in turn keeps reminding me of how much I love the songwriting of Townes Van Zandt. Earle, who famously proclaimed "Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table, in my cowboy boots, and say that", recorded Townes as a tribute to his mentor and friend, and the album features fifteen Van Zandt originals and contains some really interesting arrangements of some of the great songwriters best [...]
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Artist:Steve Earle
Title:Colorado Girl
Link Text:Steve Earle - Colorado Girl
File Name:Steve Earle - Colorado Girl.mp3
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Year:2009
Artist:Steve Earle
Title:No Place To Fall
Link Text:Steve Earle - No Place To Fall
File Name:Steve Earle - No Place To Fall.mp3
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Year:2009
Artist:Townes Van Zandt
Title:Colorado Girl
Link Text:Townes Van Zandt - Colorado Girl
File Name:Townes Van Zandt - Colorado Girl.mp3
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Year:1970
Artist:Townes Van Zandt
Title:No Place To Fall
Link Text:Townes Van Zandt - No Place To Fall
File Name:Townes Van Zandt - No Place To Fall.mp3
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Year:1978

Sufjan Stevens

Oct 26, 2009, 1:25pm Sweetheart of the Radio
Sufjan Stevens I have had a problem with Sufjan Stevens music over the past few years. I quite liked Michigan and I loved Seven Swans , but I began to lose interest shortly after. It is not that I thought what he was doing was bad, it's just that what he was doing failed to click with me and my interests waned. Well, now my interest has been rekindled by a chance listen to his new record The BQE. The BQE, described in the label blurb as "a cinematic suite inspired by the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and the [...]
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Artist:Sufjan Stevens
Title:Movement I: In The Countenance Of Kings
Link Text:Sufjan Stevens - Movement I - In The Countenance Of Kings
File Name:Sufjan Stevens - Movement I_ In The Countenance Of Kings.mp3
Year:2009
Artist:Sufjan Stevens
Title:Movement VI—Isorhythmic Night Dance with Interchanges
Link Text:Sufjan Stevens - Movement VI  Isorhythmic Night Dance with Interchanges
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Year:2009

Little Wings - Sandy Babe

Oct 26, 2009, 11:28am Sweetheart of the Radio
Little Wings - Sandy Babe I don't know how I missed this, but I did. Back in July, Marriage Records gave away a new track from Little Wings called "Sandy Babe". Kyle Field from Little Wings is one of my favorite songwriters working today. Sadly the track seems to be a one off as Little Wings are not on the Marriage Records list of Records That Are On Their Way . Good news though that a new Privacy record is! MP3: Little Wings - Sandy Babe (Courtesy [...]
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Nico's Afraid

Oct 21, 2009, 11:39am Sweetheart of the Radio
Nico's Afraid Drawing a line between my two most recent posts and following on from last weeks look at covers of Donovan's "Colours" , it feels like the perfect opportunity to look at the original and cover of one of my favorite songs ever, "Afraid" by Nico. Originally released on her 1970 album Desertshore , Nico's graceful, tender, piano led ballad always stood out for me on the otherwise experimental avant-garde album. My cover of choice is by Espers and is taken from their 2005 covers record The Weed Tree . Espers' version perfectly re-imagining "Afraid" as [...]
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Artist:Espers
Title:Afraid
Link Text:Espers - Afraid
File Name:Espers - Afraid.mp3
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Year:2005
Artist:Nico
Title:Afraid
Link Text:Nico - Afraid
File Name:Nico - Afraid.mp3
Year:1970

Joe Boyd

Oct 21, 2009, 6:56am Sweetheart of the Radio
Joe Boyd My recent enjoyment of the new Epsers album got me listening to the first couple of Fairport Convention albums, which in turn got me revisiting many of my favorite albums of the same era, which also constitute much of the production work of Joe Boyd. For those unfamiliar with Boyd, I cannot recommend highly enough his memoir " White Bicycles: Making Music in the the 1960s " which follows Boyd's journey from tour manager in the early sixties, overseeing tours for the likes of Muddy Waters, Mississippi John Hurt, Stan Getz and [...]
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Artist:Fairport Convention
Title:Autopsy
Link Text:Fairport Convention - Autopsy
File Name:Fairport Convention - Autopsy.mp3
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Year:1969
Artist:Incredible String Band
Title:Chinese White
Link Text:Incredible String Band - Chinese White
File Name:Incredible String Band - Chinese White.mp3
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Year:1967
Artist:Nick Drake
Title:Time Has Told Me
Link Text:Nick Drake - Time Has Told Me
File Name:Nick Drake - Time Has Told Me.mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps
Year:1969

Espers

Oct 20, 2009, 10:05am Sweetheart of the Radio
Espers I have recently been enjoying the new album from Philadelphia's premiere psych-folk practitioners Espers. Since forming in 2002 as a trio consisting of Greg Weeks, Meg Baird and Brooke Sietinsons (and shortly after, expanded to a sextet including Otto Hauser, Helena Espvall and Chris Smith), Espers have created a legacy for themselves as one of the major players in the psych-folk revival or recent years. Heavily influenced by british folk music of the late sixties and early seventies, including Fairport Convention, Pentangle, Trees and Mellow Candle, the music on Espers' three full length albums ( Espers [...]
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Artist:Espers
Title:Caroline
Link Text:Espers - Caroline
File Name:Espers_Caroline.mp3
Year:10
Artist:Espers
Title:Cruel Storm
Link Text:Espers - Cruel Storm
File Name:Espers - Cruel Storm.mp3
Bitrate:188 kbps
Year:2006
Artist:Espers
Title:The Road Of Golden Dust
Link Text:Espers - The Road Of Golden Dust
File Name:Espers - The Road Of Golden Dust.mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps
Year:2009

Devendra Banhart - 'Walillamdzi' Video

Oct 16, 2009, 11:32am Sweetheart of the Radio
Devendra Banhart, Walillamdzi . Directed by Lauren Dukoff Devendra Banhart on Myspace Support The Artist. Buy.Buy.Buy. Previously on SOTR: Lauren Dukoff's Family
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Donovan's Colours

Oct 15, 2009, 7:38am Sweetheart of the Radio
Donovan's Colours When I first started writing this blog I posted a feature called ' Friday Is For Covers ' with a vague hope of starting a regular series highlighting cover versions of various songs that I dig. For one reason or another this never really took off, but my fascination with covers continues - specifically the different ways that songs are re-interpreted and given new meanings or new directions by different artist. Donovan's "Colours" is the perfect case in point. Originally released as a single by Donovan in 1965, the songs simple folk style proved popular [...]
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Artist:Currituck Co.
Title:Variations on 'Colours'
Link Text:Currituck Co. - Variations on 'Colours'
File Name:Currituck Co - Variations on 'Colours'.mp3
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Year:2002
Artist:Donovan
Title:Colours
Link Text:Donovan - Colours
File Name:Donovan - Colours.mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps
Year:1965
Artist:Van Dyke Parks
Title:Donovan's Colours
Link Text:Van Dyke Parks - Donovan's Colours
File Name:Van Dyke Parks -Donovan's Colours.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:1968

Magnolia Electric Co.

Oct 14, 2009, 12:28pm Sweetheart of the Radio
Magnolia Electric Co. Photograph by Kyle Johnson I have always had a degree trouble with the work of Jason Molina. From Songs: Ohia through to Magnolia Electric Co. I have wanted to love his stuff, but aside form the odd track here and there, something has always prevented me form really connecting with his work. I just seem to have a problem sitting down and listening to his music for sustained periods...until now... Josephine the new album by Magnolia Electric Co. connects with something in me in a more consistent [...]
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Artist:Magnolia Electric Co
Title:The Rock Of Ages
Link Text:Magnolia Electric Co. - The Rock Of Ages
File Name:Magnolia Electric Co - The Rock Of Ages.mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps
Year:2009
Artist:Magnolia Electric Co.
Title:Josephine
Link Text:Magnolia Electric Co. - Josephine
File Name:josephine.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:2009
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