Here’s our good friend Glen Phillips — who wrote and sang the songs for Toad the Wet Sprocket and continues to release solo stuff brimming with wisdom and warmth — doing the Toad chestnut “Windmills” with Chris Thile from Nickel Creek.

“Take the darkest cloud. Break it open. It’s water to repair what we have broken.”

I’d give up a LOT to be able to write and sing and play like that.

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