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World Cafe Next: Birds Of Chicago

Hear two songs by the ecstatic folk-gospel band, which is built around Allison Russell and JT Nero.
This week's World Cafe: Next discovery is Birds Of Chicago, a group centered on the voices of Allison Russell and JT Nero. The band began in 2012 when Nero started writing songs for Russell, who'd previously been in the Canadian roots group Po'Girl.

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