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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