NPR's pop critic and correspondent's globe-hopping favorites this year have roots in Belgium, Ireland, Samoa and Haiti, and across the U.S. from Long Beach to Vermont.
Unmatched as an empath among her folk-leaning peers, the Oregon-based Tivel has the voice of a wobbly angel and a gift for making the poetic palpable. She's built her latest album around the idea that we are all on some kind of edge, partially unseen by others. Some of her antiheroes — a homeless man, a youth shot in a police incident — fit standard descriptions of outsiders, but most are folk who'd pass as getting by.
When Vermonter Fern Maddie introduces a song from her repertoire in a video, she'll say,"I learned this from the singing of..." and name her source. This folkish phrase reflects the banjoist, signer and songwriter's stance on the tunes, often from the British Isles, that she reinterprets — singing is a form of authorship as each one who passes on a song reconstitutes it.
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