The Decemberists' Jenny Conlee Has Music Picks For You
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Want to know what to listen to this weekend? Perhaps you would like some awesome ladies to make some recommendations! That’s what our new Friday Playlist feature is for. Kicking things off is Jenny Conlee, accordionist/pianist/singer/badass for The Decemberists.
You can see Conlee above, playing accordion on Conan as part of The Decemberists tour for their recent No. 1 album, The King Is Dead. When I talked to her this week, she said of the band’s new mainstream success, “I think basically we honed into the sound that we began with, a simple country sound that everyone kind of relates to, and now all of a sudden we’re being played on radio stations that my parents listen to.”
Conlee describes how she got started playing music: