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Video: Fleet Foxes: "Blue Ridge Mountains" (Live on "Late Show With David Letterman")

FLEET FOXES - "Blue Ridge Mountains" (live on late night tv)
David Letterman introduces Fleet Foxes with some kind of joke involving fleet foxes and dogs, because, um, I guess you don't want foxes in the dog house or something. "In the quivering forest/ Where the shivering dog rests," the group sings, in the dulcet harmonies that won me over at the Pitchfork Festival . The song is Fleet Foxes ' "Blue Ridge Mountains", with mandolin and piano complementing guitars and that reverb-coated lead vocal by Robin Pecknold. Even Letterman seems [...]