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Tara Vanflower
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Galactipus
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A Cat Shaped Hole In My Heart
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Silber/Projekt
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Hypnotic music from this ex member of Lycia, also a very gifted writer.
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Scott Tuma
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River Four
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The River 1 2 3 4
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Truckstop
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Former member of the amazing molasses-like heartache purveyors Souled American. His solo music is both relaxed and intense. This was accidentally played at the same time as the song before it, but I liked the mixture so I kept it going.
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His Name Is Alive
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Detrola
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Cloud Box
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This isn't from the His Name Is Alive release that shares the name of the song title, but from the Cloud Box release. If you can't afford the big purchase of the box set, the 10 song/70 minute selection might still be available for free download on the HNIA site. If I remember correctly, this started skipping so hopefully whatever chaos ensued is perversely pleasing.
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Lucky Pierre
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Ghost One
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Hypnogogia
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Melodic
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This is Aidan Moffat from Arab Strap and his downtempo instrumental/electronica side project. It's perfect music for taking vicodin and riding on a plane atop the ocean, or so I would imagine.
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Veda Hille & Christof Migone
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#16
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Escape Songs
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Squintfucker
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Collaboration between Veda Hille and experimental/electronic artist Christof Migone. Veda is always pushing for new methods of expressing herself outside of the singer/songwriter basics, and this is a good example.
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Colleen
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Summer Water
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The Golden Morning Breaks
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Leaf
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Colleen is the recording name of Cecile Schott from France. Her music is incredibly peaceful, and somehow in no way falls prey to any preconceived cliches of ambient music. In a sense, it just feels like nature revealing itself.
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Josephine Foster
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Wehmut
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A Wolf In Sheeps Clothing
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Locust
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Haunting renditions of German songs from Josephine, this song finds her voicing the sorrows of a lonely nightingale. Obviously, I have no interest in this show rocking anytime soon.
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Bill Wells & Maher Shalal Hash Baz
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Time Takes Me So Back
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Osaka Bridge
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Karoake Kalk
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Collaboration between the Japanese band and the Scottish indie/jazz musician, both of whom share an open hearted playfullness and emotional purity that I love.
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Woodbine
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Unbelievable
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Best Before End
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Domino
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Wonderful spacey indie band from the UK, I love how this melody sounds like a familiar song turned inside out.
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Baby Dee
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The Moon And The Morning Star
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Love's Small Song
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Durtro
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Beautiful music that I can imagine coming from a 90 year old singing in her parlour as easily as a lovely transvestite strumming a harp atop a tall bike. Dee also has stunningly lovely contributions to the Current 93 release, "Black Ships Ate The Sky".
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Laura Veirs
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Flotsam & Jetsam
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Comes With A Smile #19
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Comes With A Smile
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I'm not exactly sure why this song affected me the way it did when I first heard it. It seems like the sound quality and the mood of the lyrics are both in an aching battle between past and present. This is from the UK magazine/cd Comes With A Smile.
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Rose Melberg
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Cast Away The Clouds
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Cast Away The Clouds
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Double Agent
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I'd just bought this the morning of the show and was struck by when she sings "there's music in the park". At once it sounds like she is conjuring a memory, feeling a desperation toward experiencing something better, and feeling a sort of dread- at least to me. I love how some songs can do that. You might remember Rose from The Softies, and Tiger Trap (to name two of many).
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Islaja
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Finnish Scrawl
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Palaa Aurinkoon
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Fonal
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FInnish singer whose cd was handed to me minutes before I began this show and I was instantly entranced. My apologies for not being able to decipher what looks like an inkblot drenched in coffee on my setlist paper.
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Cornel Wilezek/Qua
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Painting Monsters
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Painting Monsters
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Surgery
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Wonderful Australian electronic based music, which ends so abruptly a segue felt like a seizure. Pretty tune, though.
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Static Films
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Song For Birds
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Love Of Light
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Blue Sanct
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The sort of song that makes the heart beat faster and tells you to walk outside naked in the pouring rain and doesn't tell you that you might end up sneezing in prison. Inspiring!
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Metallic Falcons
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Journey
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Desert Doughnuts
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Voodo-EROS
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Dark and strangely beautiful sounds from this offshoot of the also fantastic Cocorosie.
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Susannah & The Magical Orchestra
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Baby
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List Of Lights & Buoys
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Haunting loveliness and a lyric that is both precise and abstract, which I love.
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Famous Jug Band
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A Leaf Must Fall
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Wyrd Folk Mix
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cdr
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From a mix cd a friend made for me, this is a gorgeous song of mid 60's psyche folk melancholy.
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Lorna
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Understanding Heavy Metal
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Static Patterns And Souveniers
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Words On Music
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Lorna remind me of Slowdive at times and Ida at others, and that is not something I'm capable of resisting.
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Kallikak Family
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Bells in Bergamo
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May 23, 2007
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Tell All
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Basically, church bells ringing over a synthesizer drone, which is good enough for me.
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Christine Fellows
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2 For 1 Pt. 2
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The Last One Standing
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Six Shooter
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Terrific Canadian singer/songwriter which a penchant for experimenting with sounds...this is a perfect little song of alienation and isolation and hope.
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PG Six
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Bray Harp Improvisation
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Live Gladtree Festival
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This was playing alongside something else, although it is very lovely in it's natural state. If you like how it sounded, it was on purpose, if you didn't then it was an accident.
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2raumwohnung
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Melancolisch Schon
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Melancolisch Schon
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It. Sounds
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Sweet slice of German bossa nova (well, why not?) from this duo featuring Inga Humpe, formerly one half of Humpe Humpe and Swimming With Sharks.
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Julie Doiron
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Tu Es Malades
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Desormais
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Jagjaguwar
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From Julie's (mostly) French album, a wonderful late night album to listen to just before Patty Waters.
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Corrina Repp
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I'll Walk You Out
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Mile
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Hush
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From the Hush anniversary compilation, a creepily pretty tune.
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Ana D
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Andromede
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Recordando
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Elefant
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Bossa Nova with electronic and experimental elements from this Spanish singer.
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Linda Hagood
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Panic Button
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Untitled cdr
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cdr
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The years I spent in Brooklyn would have been alot less exciting were it not for Linda's beautiful and freaky music. Live sets from Smack Dab on the Hip Bone were unforgettable, and it is heartening to hear Linda still creating music that is both frantic and poetic.
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Holly May
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Time Ticks and There You Are
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Jenny's Start
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Austrian band whose indie pop never sounds obvious or predictable to me- a bit like early Throwing Muses and Raincoats mixed with The Shaggs and Grab Grab the Haddock.
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Po!
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Appleseed Alley
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Past Perfect Tense
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Ruth Miller and company, who presented music that was often cheerful indie/c86 up front but beneath that had lyrics with layers of difficult truths. This is one of those songs that can be so many different things depending on how you listen.
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Television Personalities
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Dream The Sweetest Dreams
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Domino
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Domino
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Excellent return from Dan Treacy, an album as full of damage and beauty as he seems to be.
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Diana Darby
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Kierkegaard
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The Magdalene Laundries
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Green Eyed Girl
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Diana has a great gift for creating a mood with her lyrics and melodies and hushed voice that can freeze the listener in place. It's a bit like being approached by a cat who is beautiful but also might pounce and claw you to death at any second, but still you can't step away.
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Marissa Nadler
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John Lee
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Mr John Lee (The Mayflower Rose)
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Beautiful Happiness
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Absolutely lovely, a snake like melody that twists itself around the senses with the sort of folk music that is equal parts spooky and comforting.
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Laura Cantrell
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Hammers & Nails
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Comes With A Smile
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Another song taken from the Comes With A Smile cd/magazine, this features FMU star Laura Cantrell covering a Dave Schramm song which is one of those songs that wastes no time in endearing itself to the listener.
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Aberfeldy
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Shining Star
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mp3 from Planet Claire
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This is the first of three songs I downloaded from the Planet Claire radio show- a show from France. Aberfeldy are an Irish band and here they are covering a song by a friend which would make the perfect tune to be strummed by a campfire.
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James Yorkston
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Shipwreckers
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live from Planet Claire
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Another Planet Claire session, with Scottish indie folk singer James Yorkston speaking fluent French and presenting one of his best tunes.
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Cyann & Ben
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Obsessing Screaming In the Shell
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live from Planet Claire
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One last live bit from Planet Claire, the duo of Cyann and Ben with a song reminds me of swimming in a river as the sun sets.
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Alec Bathgate
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Closing Down
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The Indifferent Velvet Velvet Void
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Well...it seemed appropriate as I was packing up and it was the only cd left unplayed....a lovely adieu from this ex Tall Dwarfs member. Thanks for listening!
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