Singing and clawhammer banjo by Abigail Washburn; three-finger banjo by Béla Fleck; and some ridiculously clean string playing by Casey Driessen and Ben Sollee. Beautiful.
I finally looked up this original recording, which I know, and you probably do too, as the source for Moby's "Run On." This group has some killer good-sounding vocals going on, and it's interesting to hear the harmonic choices as they were. The Moby version focuses around a 1 -> b7 bass motion that is totally absent in the original. The Landfordaires are not afraid to stick on the tonic all the way through the verse.
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