NPR Music Field Recordings: Mountain Man
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Uploaded by nprmusic on Feb 2, 2012
As a gaggle of videographers, musicians, industry types and hangers-on stepped gingerly through tall brush to enter a dilapidated section of Fort Adams in Newport, R.I., you couldn't blame us for feeling like unwitting participants in a horror movie. Standing amid hundred-year-old rubble as the 2011 Newport Folk Festival clattered merrily in the distance, we were either going to capture two breathtaking minutes of music or get eviscerated by maniacs as part of The Newport Witch Project. Thankfully, we made it out with the footage you see above.
Like a ray gun that shoots weaponized gorgeousness, the Vermont trio Mountain Man fit an awful lot of moony harmonies into this all-too-brief performance of "Sewee Sewee." As a self-explanatorily named group called The Seeger Clogging Allstars clomped away behind them, Mountain Man's three members — Molly Erin Sarle, Alexandra Sauser-Monnig and Amelia Randall Meath — sang and stared sweetly into each other's faces. If the scene above once seemed destined to devolve into a grisly horror movie, at least we had a choir of angels on hand to escort us into the afterlife.
See more Field Recordings: http://www.npr.org/series/144918893/field-recordings
Producers: Mito Habe-Evans, Mike Katzif
Audio Engineer: Kevin Wait
Special Thanks to: Stephen Thompson
Executive Producers: Anya Grundmann, Keith Jenkins.
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:27 seconds. best part of the song
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@MrManIsland Yea wish they'd edit out the last 20 seconds.
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@TheFletch827 The high harmony is so beautiful and what vocal control!
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Beautiful voices!
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Beautiful version!!
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@bennyp22388 yeah! they're on the Metals tour with her.... unreal show!
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Awesome!
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@bennyp22388 They are and they have an album that is amazing.
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@bennyp22388 I thought I was hallucinating
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wow amazing. but hey m listening without watching the video =D
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Videos like this make me feel like Fry from Futurama
"Shut up and take my money!"
CAl3vara 3 weeks ago 19
They make beautiful harmonies, don't get me wrong. But it kind of takes away from the video when the second girl is making eye babies with the first.
matthewseansullivan 3 weeks ago 4