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This Land is Your Land, with Arlo Guthrie, Willie Nelson, Neil Young, others, from the Farm Aid concert in 1987:

And here's the original Steve Goodman version: I gotta say I like Arlo's version better. Apparently, Willie Nelson also did a version.

I did not realize that Arlo Guthrie was Woodie Guthrie's son.

TSFH and Thomas Bergersen again, but this time with a Bulgarian folk group doing an arrangement of a traditional Bulgarian Folk piece. This one is interesting, because of how it came about. Apparently, Thomas Bergersen used part of a Bulgarian folk song ("Izlel ye Delyo Haydutin") in a...

This is another TSFH piece, composed by Thomas Bergersen. Merethe Soltvedt has an amazing voice, and I would really REALLY have liked the opportunity to sing with her at some point. Listening to her do the vocals in the song, she just sounds like she is having so much FUN.

For a different take on the preceding:

Oh, I've heard this song, I didn't realize this was the group.

Ok, that's what I had figured.

No, this is the original cast. Avi Kaplan left the group to pursue a solo career in September of 2017. His vocal range and mine match almost perfectly, so I had a LOT of fun singing along with them. Matt Sallee joined when Avi left and has been with them since. Here's a more recent video...

These kids have some serious talent. Every sound you hear is produced by the human vocal tract:

I can sing a lot of stuff in a lot of different styles, but yodeling is one that I never figured out. Not for lack of trying, mind you. ;)

A Capella vocals (no accompaniment). Geoff Castellucci is a really talented singer, one of the few folks I can listen to that is actually in my vocal range:

Another favorite of mine from Bergersen:

How do you feel about classical music? Country? (My musical tastes go all over the place, as you can tell. ;) ) Here's something from Thomas Bergersen in a classical vein, although even his music runs through a gamut of styles: