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Vintage Cafe: The Milk Carton Kids

The Milk Carton Kids.
Brendan Pattengale
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The Milk Carton Kids.

For Throwback Thursday, venture back to 2012 and The Milk Carton Kids' first visit to World Cafe. Singer-guitarists Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale each had their own solo careers going before teaming up as a duo, but they couldn't deny the magic in their intertwined voices and guitar lines. When we recorded this session, Ryan and Pattengale — perhaps realizing their strength was in their live performances — had been giving away their first two albums, Prologue and Retrospect, for free. (You could say they predicted today's music-distribution model.)

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David Dye is a longtime Philadelphia radio personality whose music enthusiasm has captivated listeners of World Cafe® since 1991. World Cafe is produced by WXPN, the public radio service of the University of Pennsylvania.