Every day, it gets harder and harder to come up with new material for this blog.
Thank God we have a lot of pop culture to digest. Take the Season 9 episode of the popular NBC sitcom The Office - titled "The Farm" - where the Schrute family siblings inherit a farm. In one poignant scene, they perform a song together as a family.
So that got me thinking - is this some sort of traditional folk song I should know?
It was not. It was the 2006 song "Sons and Daughters" by The Decembrists, closing their fourth album, The Crane Wife. It is a live favorite. Which really shouldn't be a surprise - it's a beautiful song and it was on The Office.
The song may not have been a traditional folk song, but it sure as hell is now. The Decembrists are still bringing folk music to new and great places, and, all these years later, the Portand, Oregon band is still blazing new trails.
That doesn't mean audiences don't want to hear this song, though.....
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