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Bonnie Prince Billy, Coverage, Darling, Eagleowl, Josh Ritter, mp3, Music
Some links for your amusement, edification and jollification!
Did anyone else read Sid Fleischman’s Mr Mysterious & Company when they were a kid? I loved that book, and that was Mr M’s introduction to his family’s nightly magic show. Well, given that it was set in the American midwest in the 1880’s the links bit isn’t so true, but the rest of it is.
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Cause=Time: Mumford & Sons on Letterman
Chromewaves: In This Light And On This Evening (Editors & The Antlers in Toronto)
Cover Lay Down: To The Stars – Coversongs of Space
Knox Road: Shearwater makes the weird, overly dramatic music video of your dreams
Love Shack Baby: Is this blog legal?
You Ain’t No Picasso: Happy Hollows: “Under the Milky Way” (Church cover)
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And now some tunes for more of the same:
From the upcoming album So Runs The World Away, out May 4th worldwide.
Edinburgh’s Eagleowl covers fellow Scotsman Withered Hand, and it’s all good.
I Am Nothing (Withered Hand Cover) – Eagleowl
I love the circus-y vibe in this track from Seth Avett of Avett Brothers fame, when he performed solo under the name Darling close to ten years ago.
I’m just beginning to discover Bonnie Prince Billy – I think I have a recent Muzzle Of Bees podcast to thank for this.
I See A Darkness – Bonnie Prince Billy
Image from this flickr stream
It All Started With Carbon Monoxide 
‘I See A Darkness’ by Bonnie Prince Billy is a great, great song. The Johnny Cash version, with Mr Billy on backing vocals, is also a cracker. Though I’m scared to go any further into his back catalogue because of…well…seeing too much of his darkness. I’m not actually scared of darkness, not too much anyway, but for some reason Bonnie Prince Billy’s kind of darkness scares me heaps. I should just get over it.
I know exactly what you mean Nigel! Small doses.