Sweetheart 2014

NPR Music has had a handful of good streams this year, including Damian Jurado and Jeremy Messersmith. Now "Sweetheart 2014"

Some of the artists on Sweetheart 2014 — the fifth installment in a series dating back a decade — sync up naturally with the source material they've chosen. & The Dap-Kings and 's "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours" fit together seamlessly, for example, while serves up a brief but terrific take on the Carter Family classic "Happy or Lonesome." Other pairings are more surprising, in a your-methods-may-vary sort of way, as attempts a faithfully drowsy take on Mazzy Star's "Fade Into You" and sings in Italian for "Time to Say Goodbye (Con Te Partirò)," a song popularized by Andrea Bocelli.

 Um, Brandi Carlile and the Head & the Heart and Vampire Weekend and Thao? Yes, more, please.