Brace yourself for some strings: while we typically don't like string sections added to pop and rock music (look at how syrupy strings ruined Nashville country music in the 60s and 70s), the next couple of Best Of selections prominently feature string arrangements. And probably no one can arrange strings better than violinist Kishi Bashi, whose 2019 album Omoiyari was by turn a bracing statement about the Japanese internment camps during WWII, a tender love story, and a tour de force in song writing.
Runner-Up/For Your Consideration: My iPhone video of Kishi Bashi live in his home town of Athens, Georgia performing Annie, Heart Thief of the Sea unplugged in the audience at his official album-release show.
Also, for those of you interested, my power's been restored after a neighborhood tree fell on the power lines, but I still have no cable or high-speed internet. Probably won't until Thursday or Friday. This was posted using my iPhone as a mobile hot spot.
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