One last themed podcast methinks. This one is all over nostalgic reinvention of old musical styles. It may just be a perception based on increased awareness but it really seems that there are a lot of emerging (and already emerged) bands that are redoing old folk motifs in new ways. The New York Times has an article on freak folk. This means that it is now officially mainstream and it is time to jump the genre and find whatever is the new “new thing.” So let’s consider this an elegy for the genre, just to be really hipstery. I should also mention that these are not representative of th Rt. Rev. Fischer’s favorites in the genre, its just that I have played them recently and I try to avoid too much repetition. So take this list and add The Bird Names, Akron/Family, Man Man, among many others. I will admit that there is some repetition of podcast favorites like Roky Erickson and Wooden Wand, but we all have our weaknesses. Until Friday:

1) Iron and Wine – John’s Glass Eye – Yeti 3 Compilation
2) Rogue Wave (Buddy Holly cover) – Everyday – Stubbs the Zombie Rebel Without a Pulse
3) The Magickal Folk of the Faraway Tree – Being Here Has Cause Me Sorrow – Gold Leaf Branches Compilation
4) Iron and Wine – Muddy Hymnal – The Creek Drank The Cradle
6) Buddy Holly – Everyday – The Best of Buddy Holly
7) Roky Erickson – I Have Always Been Here Before – I Have Always Been Here Before: A Roky Erickson Anthology
8) Jack White – Wayfaring Soundtrack – Cold Mountain OST
9) Wooden Wand – Perch Modifier – Harem of the Sundrum and the Witness Fig

Now thats a lot of songs.