John Jacob Niles – Carol of the Bird
January 10, 2023

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Putting the “freak” in folk some 50 years before Devendra “invented” the horse Marc Bolan rode in on, John Jacob Niles basked in the seething oddness of folk’s old-school underbelly. In the right context (brazen and bare) his skittish falsetto is easily the most haunting I’ve ever heard.