I’ve been spending an inordinate amount of time on Turntable. In between all the Mumford and Sons, Avett Brothers, and Ryan Adams that is being played in the folk rooms occasionally there will be a track or an artist played that I haven’t heard of and that deserves to be featured on Songs:Illinois. If I’d been paying more attention here and here I may have not needed Turntable.FM.
But in any case one day in one of the folk rooms Theodore was played back to back with an artist named Nathan Moore. Days later I remembered liking what I heard and I looked them both up. Here are two songs from Theodore and Nathan Moore respectively – they’re both sad tales of lost love and unhappy endings; in the case of “Back From The War the unhappiest ending…