Charles, et al. Please listen to this. Heard it on the way home and gotdamn it’s absolutely beautiful.

pri.org

How a Chicago bluegrass band rocked Nigeria’s music scene

Disclaimer: I took bluegrass lessons as a kid. So when my friend Ethan Zuckerman wrote a fantastic blog post recently about how and why a Chicago bluegrass quartet ended up doing a cover version of a Nigerian song called “Chop My Money,” I needed to investigate for myself.