Showing posts with label For The Birds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label For The Birds. Show all posts
Sunday, September 26, 2010

For The Birds / Pipes and Woodwinds: The Blackbird

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Silly Wizard: The Blackbird [sadly, out of print] I've always liked the slow, almost stately medieval pace and harmonies of this live t...
Saturday, September 25, 2010

For the Birds: Hummingbird and Skylark and Owl, oh my!

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Kris Delmhorst: Hummingbird [ purchase ] Bette Midler: Skylark [purchase] Carrie Newcomer: I Heard an Owl [ purchase ] I must say I wa...

For the Birds: The Owl and the Pussycat

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Donovan: The Owl and the Pussycat [ purchase ] From Donovan's curious children's album, H.M.S. Donovan , comes this 19th century Ed...
Friday, September 24, 2010

For the Birds: The Crow on the Cradle

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Show of Hands : The Crow on the Cradle [ purchase ] The Crow on the Cradle was written by Englishman Sydney Carter. Carter was a Shaker...
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For The Birds: Rubber Duckie

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Ernie: Rubber Duckie [ purchase ] Kelly Hogan: Rubber Duckie [ purchase ] Larry Paulette: Rubber Duckie [ scavenge out-of-print '77 ...

For the Birds: The Gold Finch and the Red Oak Tree

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Ted Leo/Pharmacists: The Gold Finch and the Red Oak Tree [ purchase ] Ted Leo's third album with the Pharmacists, The Tyranny of Distan...

For the Birds: A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square

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The Manhattan Transfer : A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square [ purchase ] This week, we have been treated to some beautiful, realisti...

For The Birds: The Wild Goose

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Kate Rusby: The Wild Goose [ purchase ] I was introduced to Kate Rusby by one of our early contributors here at Star Maker Machine, the fir...
Thursday, September 23, 2010

For the Birds: Ride A White Swan

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T. Rex : Ride a White Swan [ purchase ] If I were a newspaper writer, I might posit this as today's headline: London, 1970 - Marc B...

For the Birds: Sparrow

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Simon & Garfunkel: Sparrow [ purchase ] Pity the titular bird in this early Paul Simon song. Unloved by all, she dies, tired and hung...

For the Birds: Canary

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Liz Phair: Canary [ Purchase ] When most songwriters use bird imagery they use it to express freedom and contentedness, but Liz Phair found...
Wednesday, September 22, 2010

For the Birds: Blue Jay Way

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The Beatles: Blue Jay Way [ purchase ] The song has nothing to due with birds. "Blue Jay Way" was simply the name of street in t...

For the Birds: Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens

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Asleep at the Wheel : Ain‘t Nobody Here But Us Chickens [ purchase ] It’s always a pleasure to share some western swing from Asleep at ...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010

For the Birds: Last Lonely Eagle

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New Riders of the Purple Sage: Last Lonely Eagle [ purchase ] "Last Lonely Eagle" comes from the first NRPS album, when the band ...

For The Birds: Lesbian Seagull

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Engelbert Humperdinck: Lesbian Seagull [purchase] It wasn't easy thinking of a song to post this week as I did a mix of birds songs on ...
Monday, September 20, 2010

For the Birds: Baltimore Oriole

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George Harrison: Baltimore Oriole [ purchase ] Somewhere in England is nobody's favorite George Harrison album. If it is remembered a...

For the Birds: Penguins

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Lyle Lovett: Penguins [ Purchase ] I'm really not sure how a penguin manages to be sensitive to his needs, but oh lord, I go for "...
Sunday, September 19, 2010

For The Birds: Song To A Seagull

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Joni Mitchell: Song To A Seagull [ purchase ] Birds can go where we cannot, and most of us envision the open endless aether as pure somehow...

For the Birds: Bluebird Is Dead

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Electric Light Orchestra: Bluebird Is Dead [ purchase ] Electric Light Orchestra cellist Mike Edwards died earlier this month in a freak ha...

Blank and Blues/ For the Birds: Emu’s Blues

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Darol Anger and Mike Marshall : Emu‘s Blues [ purchase ] Take a look at the picture above. If something like that asked you to post a s...