Stephin Merritt and Robin Pecknold Perform "The Book Of Love" on East Village Radio; Merritt Discusses NYT Songwriter List
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Danielle Chelosky
Crusty in the right places. Worth the chew.
Summary
Stephin Merritt (Magnetic Fields) and Robin Pecknold (Fleet Foxes) performed "The Book Of Love" on East Village Radio. Merritt was recently named to The New York Times' list of greatest living American songwriters, a list he helped nominate. He discussed the list on the show, lamenting the omission of Tom Waits, Laurie Anderson, and John Darnielle. Olivia Rodrigo had also recently covered the same song for a benefit compilation.
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· 2 pulledMerritt has been the talk of the town after being included on The New York Times' polarizing list of the 30 greatest American songwriters alive
He discussed it on the radio show, saying he was a part of the nominating committee and lamenting the omission of Tom Waits, Laurie Anderson, John Darnielle, Earl
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