For the past decade, the National’s Bryce Dessner has been helping to put together Cincinnati’s MusicNOW Festival, which regularly features acts from the National’s orbit doing one-off collaborations. A new compilation called MusicNOW - 10 Years collects live recordings from past years, and it features big indie stars like Robin Pecknold, Sufjan Stevens, Grizzly Bear, and Dirty Projectors. The album’s opener is a big one. It's from Songs Of The South, an one-off supergroup that features Justin Vernon, Sharon Van Etten, Matthew E. White, Megafaun, and Fight The Big Bull all getting together for a big, heavy, sad folk song. Listen to it and check out the compilation’s tracklist below.
TRACKLIST:
01 Sounds Of The South - “Trials, Troubles, Tribulations”
02 Robin Pecknold - “Silver Dagger”
03 Sufjan Stevens - “The Owl & The Tanager”
04 eighth blackbird - “Omie Wise”
05 My Brightest Diamond - “I Have Never Loved Someone”
06 Dirty Projectors - “Emblem Of The World”
07 Tinariwen - “Imidiwan Ma Tenam”
08 Tim Hecker - “Chimeras (Live) 2011”
09 Colin Stetson - “Nobu Take”
10 Owen Pallett - “E Is For Estranged”
11 Erik Friedlander - “Airstream Envy”
12 Bonnie “Prince” Billy - “Love Comes To Me”
13 Grizzly Bear - “While You Wait For The Others”
14 The Books with Clogs - “Classy Penguin”
15 Andrew Bird - “Section 8 City”
16 Justin Vernon - “Love More”
MusicNOW - 10 Years is out 3/10 on Brassland. This year’s festival goes down 3/11-15.
