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Rising Stars: Folk

Artist Song
James Vincent McMorrow  And If My Heart Should Somehow Stop  
Emily Jane White  Never Dead  
Agnes Obel  Riverside  
Joy Kills Sorrow  Kill My Sorrow  
The Bad Shepherds  Anarchy In the UK  
The Gentle Good  Llosgi Pontydd  
Angus & Julia Stone  Big Jet Plane  
Breabach  The Desperate Battle  
Sean Rowe  Night  
The Head and the Heart  Lost In My Mind  
Runrig  Every River  
Vandaveer  A Mighty Leviathan of Old  
The David Wax Museum  When You Are Still  
Tommy Santee Klaws  In Formation  

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One of the basic components that make the folk engine run is storytelling, the kind that digs deep. Today's tale-spinners' toolbox holds not only a way with words, but also a full-color map of the human soul. You can hear it on Tethered for the Storm, the second album by the Gentle Good, even if your grasp of Welsh is not quite up to par — “Llosgi Pontydd” still casts a mellifluous and powerful spell. Quite different in tone is the Bad Shepherds’ cover of the Sex Pistols’ “Anarchy In the UK” from 2010’s By Hook or By Crook, but don’t expect a straight-up comic pastiche: the solemn, brooding treatment of the punk anthem is loaded with gravitas.
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