Playlist: Folk-Inspired Indie

Some of the more devoted readers might know that I’m a DJ on Grinnell College’s radio station, KDIC. My friend and I share a show called “These Colours Don’t Run,” which attempts to reflect good Republican values, and usually fails. On this week’s show, while we weren’t saying interesting things on the air, we played folk-inspired indie rock (our theme changes each week).

These are the songs we played. You should know all of them, because they’re good:

Mirah, “Don’t Die In Me”
The Frames, “Trying”
Iron and Wine, “Free Until They Cut me Down”
Iron and Wine, “Woman King”
The Elected, “Greetings in Braille”
Devendra Banhart, “This Is The Way”
Death Cab for Cutie, “405 (acoustic)”
Califone, “Wingbone”
Ugly Cassanova, “Hotcha Girls”
The Shins, “Mine’s Not A High Horse”
Rilo Kiley, “Ripchord”
Rilo Kiley, “Go Ahead”
Apostle of Hustle, “Folkloric Feel”
Cake, “Mexico”
John Vanderslice, “My Family Tree”
Joanna Newsom, “The Book of Right-On”
Kings of Convenience, “Love Is No Big Truth”
The Mountain Goats, “Going to Tennessee”
The Mountain Goats, “The Young Thousands”

Next weeks theme: “Rock Out With Your Cock Out.”