Signs of Life 2008: Best Music
Jolie Holland - "Mexico City"
Cory Chisel & The Wandering Sons - "Tennessee"
Killers album on MySpace for free, this weekend only
Live at Paste: Duncan Sheik
Abigail Washburn & the Sparrow Quartet debuted earlier this year with a self-titled album that gorgeously fuses Chinese folk, American old-time music, jazz, bluegrass and more. Given the quartet’s involvement with music in China, and its coming gigs at the new U.S. embassy in Beijing during this summer’s Olympics, the all-star group—featuring Washburn plus Béla Fleck, Casey Dreissen and Ben Sollee—appears in Paste’s International Issue.In this extended conversation with Paste, the band discusses its unique sound, new album, and the beauty of cultural exchange through music—plus the difference between claw-hammer and three-finger banjo style—while Béla Fleck does his best to crack everybody up.
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