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So I was listening to "Song of the Travelling Daughter" by Abagail Washburn yesterday. She's the banjo-playing bluegrass musician who sometimes sings in Chinese (she has a master's degree in Chinese -- Mandarin I'd assume). Anyway her whole cd is really, really good. And I was thinking along the usual lines that I fall into when I find a musician I really, really like. I was thinking, "Oh,

kehf would LOVE this cd!" and "

pencil_rain would really like it too!"

And no doubt both of my friends would like the cd quite a bit... but I was thinking the same thing about the Laura Veirs cd "Year of the Meteors" just two weeks earlier... oh, and Edd V would probably like that one too, now that I think about it... :p

And two weeks before that it was "Why Should The Fire Die?" by Nickel Creek. I even bought a copy of that for

pencil_rain and

jwyldragon, and I very seriously considered buying it as a birthday present for

kehf, but in the end my better judgement won out, and I bought the cd that I knew she loved already, rather than the one that I was currently infatuated with and thought she would probably like a lot.

The point is, when I discover something new that I really like, for a short while I'm of the opinion that it's the greatest thing the world has ever seen and it must be shared with the whole world right now! ^_^ And then after a while I realize it's maybe a good cd, but not quite so earth-shattering as I'd thought.

So... Abagail Washburn = very good bluegrass/roots music. Laura Veirs = excellent quirky singer-songwriter, maybe a guitarist equivelant of Tori Amos, sorta? Nickel Creek = extremely talented bluegrass trio from San Diego (but -- this is very important for people like

geojlc and Gabriel, my comic book dealer -- they do bluegrass with almost no TWANG in their vocals).