Was going to make a longer post
Jul. 28th, 2019 10:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
between_time_and_42But I just have to get this down first.
I listened to an album by Anais Mitchell today- the same person who wrote Hadestown- Young Man In America was the album. On the second track (the title track, as a matter of fact), I thought one of the backing vocalists sounded a lot like Chris Thile, but I dismissed the idea that it was him because he performed the song with her on Live From Here fairly recently, and I thought I was imagining it because that was the first time I'd heard that song. Then the song "Dyin' Day" came on (which was also performed on Live from Here), and there was a mandolin solo. Jokingly, I said to myself, "That sounds like Chris Thile, too!" In my head, all mandolinists sound like Chris Thile because he's the only one I'm super familiar with.
But then I realized that there really was something distinctive about that solo. And the backing vocals sounded familiar too. So I looked up the credits, and I'll be damned, guess who plays mandolin and sings backing vocals on Anais Mitchell's album Young Man in America?
Here is the song "Dyin' Day":
And here is her performance of "Young Man in America" on Live from Here, featuring Chris Thile and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra:
I listened to an album by Anais Mitchell today- the same person who wrote Hadestown- Young Man In America was the album. On the second track (the title track, as a matter of fact), I thought one of the backing vocalists sounded a lot like Chris Thile, but I dismissed the idea that it was him because he performed the song with her on Live From Here fairly recently, and I thought I was imagining it because that was the first time I'd heard that song. Then the song "Dyin' Day" came on (which was also performed on Live from Here), and there was a mandolin solo. Jokingly, I said to myself, "That sounds like Chris Thile, too!" In my head, all mandolinists sound like Chris Thile because he's the only one I'm super familiar with.
But then I realized that there really was something distinctive about that solo. And the backing vocals sounded familiar too. So I looked up the credits, and I'll be damned, guess who plays mandolin and sings backing vocals on Anais Mitchell's album Young Man in America?
Here is the song "Dyin' Day":
And here is her performance of "Young Man in America" on Live from Here, featuring Chris Thile and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra:
