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Deer Tick, Live In Concert: Newport Folk 2014

By Stephen Thompson
Published July 29, 2014 at 7:31 AM MDT
Deer Tick performs at the 2014 Newport Folk Festival.
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Deer Tick performs at the 2014 Newport Folk Festival.

John McCauley's ragged roots-rock band Deer Tick has become a Newport Folk Festival staple, along with McCauley's frequent collaborators in Dawes and Delta Spirit. Think of Deer Tick as a kind of turbo-charged bar band, in terms of both creativity and energy: On last year's Negativity, it plays with the free-wheeling energy of punk and the versatility to incorporate country, blues and soul music.

Last year, McCauley played the Newport Folk Festival as a solo artist, but Deer Tick returned in 2014, recorded live on Saturday, July 26 in Newport, R.I.

Set List

  • "The Rock"

  • "The Dream's in the Ditch"

  • "Main Street"

  • "Baltimore Blues No. 1"

  • "Clownin Around"

  • "Trash"

  • "In Our Time" (Feat. Vanessa Carlton)

  • "Hey Doll"

  • "Smith Hill"

  • "Friday XIII"

  • "She's Not Spanish"

  • "Christ Jesus"

  • "Not So Dense"

  • "Ashamed"

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    Stephen Thompson
    Stephen Thompson is a writer, editor and reviewer for NPR Music, where he speaks into any microphone that will have him and appears as a frequent panelist on All Songs Considered. Since 2010, Thompson has been a fixture on the NPR roundtable podcast Pop Culture Happy Hour, which he created and developed with NPR correspondent Linda Holmes. In 2008, he and Bob Boilen created the NPR Music video series Tiny Desk Concerts, in which musicians perform at Boilen's desk. (To be more specific, Thompson had the idea, which took seconds, while Boilen created the series, which took years. Thompson will insist upon equal billing until the day he dies.)
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