The Little Orphan Girl (Original)
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I once had a long and drunken conversation about authenticity in music as the end of my grad school days neared in which I found myself defending the idea that real music, real emotion, comes best without ornament or polish. I've since wobbled between a more tempered view of authenticity, in part because my limited musicianship (compounded by my feeble perfectionism) makes it hard to do one-takes. On top of this, I do feel that "producing" music enables some pretty cool creative progress that can't be done in one shot. In any case, this take of "The Little Orphan Girl," (which I first heard performed by Doc Watson, which he first heard sung by his grandmother) to me, is sickishly authentic. Get Mark's words & pictures by email