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Making use of their bowed dulcimer, droning echo, and mysterious psychedelic touches, Starlings, TN combines the otherworldliness of John Cale-era Velvet Underground using the tradition of string and bluegrass bands from the ’20s and ’30s. The Nashville group released its debut, The Leaper’s Fork, on Poultry Ranch Information in 2002. …

The Starlings were a nom de studio for singer and multi-instrumentalist Chris Sheehan, a fresh Zealand indigenous who released two albums under this name in the first ’90s as but one stop on the surprisingly varied music journey. Sheehan was created in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1965 and trained himself …