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A holiday party for the ages

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4.33.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Originally aired in 2012, our first holiday special landed us at a remote cabin in the woods where we (trust us!) held a party for the ages. The guest list for our night of music and tall tales included Kishi Bashi, Dan Deacon, Carrie Brownstein, Nellie McKay and more.

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0:04.2

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0:08.6

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0:13.2

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0:19.6

Just go to donate.npr.org slash music. There you can pick the station of your choice and help us

0:26.1

get more music by more artists to more people. Again, that's donate.npr.org slash music.

0:32.8

Thanks so much for listening and for all of your support over the years.

0:47.0

Hey, hey, Bob. Oh, yes. You are fun. What's your listening to on those headphones, man?

0:52.3

Oh, I was just listening to a little Led Zeppelin suite, huh?

0:56.6

Yeah, getting really ready for this party. Look at this place.

0:59.1

It's beautiful. Man, happy holidays. Look at this.

1:03.2

Wow, you really did it, huh? Yeah, no, I know. Look what's on the tree.

1:06.8

Look at the tree. You've got little sweet tarts on there.

1:11.4

Oh, man, just for me. You bet. Thank you so much.

1:15.2

Sure. I got to try it. I got to try it.

1:16.4

Sure, everyone.

1:17.7

Oh, man, thank you so much. Yeah. Well, I got to tell you, I'm not normally

1:24.8

one to get too terribly excited about parties, but I'm pretty excited about this one.

1:28.1

I mean, we have, I saw the Yvai he sent out.

1:31.2

Right. First of all, Neil Young.

1:33.2

We saw each other and I winked and he winked back and I thought,

1:37.5

yep, oh my god. I can't believe he's coming to the party.

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