The Chieftains with Roger Daltrey : Behind Blue Eyes [ purchase ] To finish out my posts for this week’s theme, I wanted a song that ha...

Roland Kirk: Mingus-Griff Song Roland Kirk: Mood Indigo [ purchase ] Rahsaan Roland Kirk was a one-man woodwind section. He could play th...

Brave Old World : Brave Old Sirbas [ purchase ] One of the pleasures of this week‘s theme for me is the chance to present some klezmer ...

Gil Scott-Heron : Winter in America [ purchase ] This bleak vision of dystopian America circa 1974 is courtesy of Gil Scott-Heron, a soc...

Sarah Harmer: Around This Corner [ purchase ] Sarah Harmer: Just A Closer Walk With Thee [ purchase ] The classical reeded woodwinds of th...

Sadao Watanabe : Tsumagoi [ purchase ] Before you get all up in my grill, let me just point out that this is not J-Rock. It's pret...

Chris Cornell: Disappearing One [purchase] When grunge/metal heroes Soundgarden parted ways in 1997 (they have since reunited) I coudn'...

Kate Bush : The Dreaming [ purchase ] If you don’t know what to listen for, you might say that there are no pipes or woodwinds in The D...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...