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Video exclusive: Sara Watkins’ ‘Take Up Your Spade’

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Fiddler, singer and songwriter Sara Watkins often comes across as a favorite little sister, especially to those who have monitored her growth from an older-than-her-years member of the boundary-breaking San Diego bluegrass trio Nickel Creek to her subsequent family endeavors with brother Sean and her frequent solo outings with various collaborators, many of them at Largo in L.A.

Several members of her extended musical family have turned up on her recently released second solo album, ‘Sun Midnight Sun,’ and a couple also help out with the video for the album’s closing track, ‘Take Up Your Spade,’ premiering on Pop & Hiss. The song itself is a gentle benedictory ode to the notion that every moment brings with it the possibility of renewal.

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The video, also featuring Jackson Browne, Fiona Apple (one of those Largo regulars) and producer Blake Mills, consists of home-movie-like footage of the recording session, and backyard basketball breaks, at Zeitgeist Studio in L.A.

‘I have known Jackson almost as long as Fiona,’ Watkins tells Pop & Hiss. ‘I met both of them at Largo. I just sort of found myself on stage with them, and both have become frequent guests at our Watkins Family Hour show’ -- the monthly residency she and her guitarist-singer brother Sean have been holding at Largo for nearly a decade.

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