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Sara Watkins, Live In Concert: Newport Folk 2012

By Stephen Thompson
Published July 30, 2012 at 3:21 PM EDT
Sara Watkins plays the Fort Stage at the Newport Folk Festival.
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Sara Watkins plays the Fort Stage at the Newport Folk Festival.

Sara Watkins isn't the flashiest of singing stars, but she's already carved out a remarkable career: She got her start as a kid with Chris Thile and her brother Sean in the heavily decorated, platinum-selling Nickel Creek, and has since gone on to perform with The Decemberists, Ray LaMontagne and Bela Fleck, among others. And, of course, she's put out some fine solo records, the latest of which is this year's Sun Midnight Sun.

That new record is a real sleeper, worthy of the crossover success enjoyed by the likes of Lady Antebellum or Sugarland; it's a smart, surprising collection of sweetly hooky songs that rest within pop, country and folk on the Venn diagram of musical genres. Sara Watkins performs here as part of the 2012 Newport Folk Festival, recorded live on Sunday, July 29 in Newport, R.I.

Set List:

  • "The Foothills"

  • "Lock and Key"

  • "Too Much"

  • "All This Time"

  • "When it Pleases You"

  • "Long Hot Summer Day"

  • "Tomorrow is a Long Time"

  • "Jefferson"

  • "You're the One I Love"

  • "You & Me"

  • "Take Up Your Spade"

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    Stephen Thompson
    Stephen Thompson is a writer, editor and reviewer for NPR Music, where he speaks into any microphone that will have him and appears as a frequent panelist on All Songs Considered. Since 2010, Thompson has been a fixture on the NPR roundtable podcast Pop Culture Happy Hour, which he created and developed with NPR correspondent Linda Holmes. In 2008, he and Bob Boilen created the NPR Music video series Tiny Desk Concerts, in which musicians perform at Boilen's desk. (To be more specific, Thompson had the idea, which took seconds, while Boilen created the series, which took years. Thompson will insist upon equal billing until the day he dies.)
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