realthog

NPR is posting all weekend great scads of stuff recorded at this year's Newport Folk Festival for free download here.

I'm not sure how long these downloads will be available, so I'd not tarry. More is being added even as I type: Gillian Welch and Billy Bragg and The Low Anthem already, Decemberists later this evening, Pete Seeger tomorrow . . . These are just some of the people I immediately recognize; perhaps more exciting are the discoveries I'm going to be making.

Makes you wonder, dunnit, why all the good stuff ends up on budget-strapped NPR rather than on richer-than-the-wildest-dreams-of-Croesus stations like, say, those of the Clear Channel network.