FAF: Sound Opinions
On this Freakin Awesome Friday we’ll look at a couple of just down right, sick, totally gnarly, nasty jams. It’ll be like a preservative factory in here. Everything featured today will come from Public Radio. You may be saying to yourself, “What?! but public radio is lame.” Well this isn’t your dad’s public radio. This is Chicago Public Radio’s week show called Sound Opinions. They have extremely talented artists come in and perform on their show. They’ve had everybody from DJ Shadow to Radiohead to Fiest to Girl Talk. So today we’ll feature a couple of the Sound Opinion’s amazing shows here.
The first show is the from the Decemberists. This show had the version of Oh, Valencia! that the tab here is based on. It is an all acoustic set with banjo (woot) and, another favorite instrument of mine, the accordion. They revamp some of their songs to accommodate these instruments resulting in a very unique performance.
The next band does not have a banjo but they are just as awesome and they are called Frightened Rabbit. They hail from Scotland and have received rave reviews of their album The Midnight Organ Flight. I would recommend listening to the full podcast. They talk in depth about the origin of the album and the writing process. It’s a very cool insight into an artists’ mindset. Here are the songs that they sing on during the show.
BONUS: Here are a couple of YouTube videos that are very cool. The first is a cover of Fleet Foxes’ Tiger Mountain Peasant Song. The girls’ voices are absolutely incredible. I had chills the entire time was listening to this.
This next video is of the Wilco and the Fleet Foxes live in concert in Spokane, WA. They sing Bob Dylan’s “I Shall Be Released”. Epic.
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