Adrianne Lenker Digs Deep
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The Donkey as a Guitar
There's this great clip from an old documentary with him from the 80s where he has recorded all of these barnyard animals. And then he's made them into instruments for himself to record with. So he's like playing the wolf as backup singers and playing the donkey as a guitar. I've never seen that. It's a crazy clip. But it's interesting that you, you're parallel to him making this kind of animal reference exploring the woods. He simultaneously was clearly trying to capture that emotion in an instrumental sense. Which is what I like with the guitar.
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