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Concert Review - Brown Bird @ World Cafe Live

Brown Bird   @World Cafe Live (Upstairs). Heading into this show, I was super pumped for the Rhode Island duo.  Back in July I was torn between David Wax Museum and Brown Bird for who to see @ Newport Folk Festival.  My wife, Brosef & his girlfriend, all wanted to see D Wax & Co, but I still had to give Brown Bird a shot.  I decided to start with Brown Bird and then switch stages.  I had been so into  The Sounds of Ghosts EP.    But after picking up   the Devil Dancing,  just a week prior I was hooked.   I watched a few tracks and then headed over to David Wax Museum to join the rest of my crew.  David Wax seemed a little over-matched for the huge main stage setting at Newport, and the Brown Bird stage was so intimate, I had to go back.  I was rewarded, as the end of the show included some tracks from the E.P.   Even better was they were given time for another song, and the unplanned encore was 'Jackson' originally by  Johnny Cash & June Carter-Cash When the Wor