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Feb 19th, 2009 @ 11:08 pm
Dan Deacon’s “Wet Wings” samples Jean Ritchie
After listening to Dan Deacon’s “Wet Wings” from his new album Bromst (great song, on Dan Deacon’s Myspace) I set out to discover who he was sampling (because I’m folk music challenged). It turns out the sample was from “The Day is Past and Gone” as sung a capella by Jean Ritchie.
The only place I could find her version of this folk hymn was on the compilation Folk Song America Vol. 2, and it’s pretty haunting.
