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Top Tunes ’17: Caitlin Kraus
< < Back to ?p=205295Who can believe it? Another year has come and gone, leaving but memories of records beloved past! This is the second in an ongoing holiday season series for WOUB, in which some of the area’s favorite music nerds share what moved them, musically, in the year 2017.
Caitlin Kraus is a Columbus, OH native. After working in Austin, TX for five years as a board-certified music therapist, she returned to Athens, OH where she is currently working as a graduate assistant while completing her dual Master’s in Counselor Education and (more) Music Therapy. When not in class or studying, Caitlin is most likely writing songs on guitar or piano, playing with her dogs Leonard and Simone, or drinking coffee.
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Caitlin’s favorite albums of 2017:
Neil Young – Hitchhiker
Dead Moon – Unknown Passage
Charley Patton – Electrically Recorded: Prayer of Death
Karen Dalton – In My Own Time
Jessica Pratt – Jessica Pratt
Bill Fay – Time of the Last Persecution
Weyes Blood – Front Row Seat to Earth
Cate le Bon – Mug Museum
Sharon Van Etten – Tramp
Jelly Roll Morton – Jelly Roll Morton (Everest Records Archive of Folk & Jazz Music)