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NPR Music & Concerts
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Pokey LaFarge, Live In Concert: Newport Folk 2014

By Stephen Thompson
Published July 28, 2014 at 11:49 AM EDT
Pokey LaFarge performs at the 2014 Newport Folk Festival.
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Pokey LaFarge performs at the 2014 Newport Folk Festival.

You can bundle it up in MP3s and send it zinging through the ether, but Pokey LaFarge's music still seems as though it has emerged from the dustiest 78 at the thrift shop. LaFarge is a man out of time and a true wanderer, with the vintage clothing to match, but he never seems like a mere novelty act: His songs are too sturdy, with too much infectiously zippy energy, to feel anything but authentic.

The singer and his band now record for Jack White's Third Man Records — a sublime fit if ever there was one — and last year put out a marvelous self-titled album, which LaFarge produced with the aid of Old Crow Medicine Show singer Ketch Secor. Hear the band perform as part of the 2014 Newport Folk Festival, recorded live on Saturday, July 26 in Newport, R.I.

Set List

  • "All Night Long"

  • "Bowlegged Woman"

  • "City Summer Blues"

  • "Cairo, Illinois"

  • "One Town At A Time"

  • "Sweet Potato Blues"

  • "When Did You Leave Heaven"

  • "Close The Door"

  • "The Good Lord Giveth (And Uncle Sam Taketh Away)"

  • "Kentucky Mae"

  • "Central Time"

  • "Josephine"

  • "In The Graveyard Now"

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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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