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Watch 5 Late-Night Lullabies From SXSW

You're never too old to be sung to sleep. After a long, busy day, a quiet voice can put a weary body to rest. So in the late hours of the SXSW Music Festival, our team in Austin, Texas, asked a handful of musicians we love — Laura Marling, Torres, Luluc, Tom Brosseau and The Mynabirds' Laura Burhenn — to sing us lullabies in church courtyards and on the banks of Austin's Waller Creek.

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