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Other guests of Ms. Washburn's unorthodox approach to music include a Fei, who plays Black & Orange Friendship Bracelet Chinese zither known as a guzheng, and two throat singers from Mongolia. Rayna Gellert, who was Ms. Washburn's colleague in Uncle Earl, an old-time string band that counted among its fans John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin, joins in on fiddle, as does Bill Frisell on guitar. The mix works, with Ms. Washburn's voice Black And Gold Friendship Bracelet plucky "clawhammer"-style banjo holding the center. "Corner Girl," with Mr. Kittel providing chamber accompaniment, sits comfortably next to "Dreams of Nectar," which features the guzheng. An eerie ambiance enriches the texture of the instantly memorable Washburn-Welch compositions "Bring Me My Queen" and "Burn Thru." All the arrangements show just Pewter And White Friendship Bracelet versatile contemporary American folk music can be when it's played earnestly yet with a sense of adventure. Ms. Washburn, a chipper 31-year-old, has a resume unlike anyone else in popular music, one rich with seemingly incongruous facts that she reveals casually in conversation. "I was a lobbyist for three years in Vermont," she said over coffee here. A few minutes Red Friendship Bracelet: "I went to an ashram in Massachusetts." Then: "I worked at a consulting firm in Beijing." Her first record label discovered her while she played banjo in a parking garage where she had been sleeping in her truck. She introduced one song from the Housing Works stage by saying it reminded her of when she was teaching English to workers at a Chinese restaurant in Montpelier, Vt. Born in Evanston, Ill.