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I turned on the radio this morning\u2014as the snow fell gently, ominously outside\u2014and caught a lovely set by Sara and Sean Watkins<\/a> at the end of \u201cA Prairie Home Companion.\u201d I was never a big fan of Nickel Creek<\/a>, the pop-bluegrass trio fronted by mandolin prodigy Chris Thile<\/a> that made them famous; among other things, there was something a little too precious about Sara Watkins<\/a>\u2019 high, delicate voice in that context. But today, it emerged from my radio with a silvery, beguiling sweetness.<\/p>\n

I had the unexpected good fortune to see Watkins perform live a few weeks ago at the Lizard Lounge<\/a> in Cambridge, that magical musical cave tucked away in the bowels of Cambridge Common. Singer\/songwriter Kristin Andreassen<\/a> was opening for The Sweetback Sisters<\/a> (souped-up honky-tonk from Brooklyn), and Watkins, in town on tour with The Decemberists<\/a> (ever heard of them?), was a surprise guest in Andreassen\u2019s set. There, in the dark hush of that close underground room, she sang this exquisite little number\u2014and for a moment, waltzed us right out of dreary winter:<\/p>\n

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I turned on the radio this morning\u2014as the snow fell gently, ominously outside\u2014and caught a lovely set by Sara and Sean Watkins at the end of \u201cA Prairie Home Companion.\u201d I was never a big fan of Nickel Creek, the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22,20,7,18,16,3,21,19,17],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cambridge","tag-chris-thile","tag-folk-music","tag-kristin-andreassen","tag-lizard-lounge","tag-music","tag-nickel-creek","tag-sara-watkins","tag-sweetback-sisters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ameliamason.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ameliamason.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ameliamason.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ameliamason.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ameliamason.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ameliamason.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ameliamason.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ameliamason.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ameliamason.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ameliamason.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}