I understand about half the words she is singing, but damn is this catchy. Danger is the hot track, if that doesn’t cue up automatically.
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Chris Thile, who you might know as the upcoming replacement host of Prairie Home Companion, member of the Punch Brothers, member of Nickle Creek, has a 15 minute video performing J.S. Bach’s Sonata No. 1 in G Minor, BWV 1001 on his mandolin. If you fast-forward to 11:42, it gets even more amazing. A nice way to start the week:
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Article at the Atlantic about the Prairie Home Companion replacement. (also, thanks Austin).
Chris Thile has great songs, but my favorite ones are his covers of The Strokes’ Heart in a Cage, The Strokes’ Reptilia, and White Stripes’ Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground.
Most of the video from the Pitchfork performance:
Please crank this up, you won’t regret it. It’s the Swedish Chef singing Chandelier:
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Not sure how I missed this one a while ago. I will never listen to the original the same:
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