As I put together a new collection for the car, I noticed there were quite a lot of songs featuring birds, so a made a themed collection by, with, about or inspired by birds: the highlights are Roy, obviously, and Steve Miller's Fly Like an Eagle, which reminds me of John Martyn in his echoplex days. I've got plenty of other bird songs that could make another themed collection but those would go back further into my collection. I think everything here has been acquired within the past year or two. Incidentally, I followed PAul's lead the other day and downloaded a double album of Show of Hands: great stuff!
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| 32 songs, 2.5 hours, |
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| Name |
Time |
Album |
Artist |
| Albatross |
03:20 |
Uncut: Dazed And Confused |
Peter Green |
| Mockingbird |
03:18 |
Mockingbird |
Allison Moorer |
| The Lark |
04:41 |
Mandel-The Mercury Years |
Harvey Mandel |
| Aerial |
07:53 |
Aerial: A Sky of Honey |
Kate Bush |
| Jet Black Birds |
03:00 |
New Ways Of Letting Go |
Michael Zapruder |
| Me And My Woman |
13:04 |
Stormcock Reissue |
Roy Harper |
| My Singing Bird |
04:10 |
Before Sleep Comes |
Luka Bloom |
| Little Birds |
04:42 |
Dirt Farmer |
Levon Helm |
| Great Speckled Bird |
03:00 |
Ramblin' |
Lucinda Williams |
| Canyon Eagle Rhapsody |
05:54 |
Higher As The Eagle Flies |
Pete Wyoming Bender |
| Day Of The Eagle |
05:03 |
Bridge Of Sighs |
Robin Trower |
| Texas Eagle |
03:28 |
The Mountain |
Steve Earle & The Del McCoury Band |
| Fly Like An Eagle |
11:27 |
King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents (live) Disk 1 |
Steve Miller Band |
| Vultures |
02:06 |
Love Above All - Uncut Nov 2007 |
Tana Hunter |
| Diving Duck |
03:43 |
King Guitar |
Michael Messer |
| Maybe Sparrow |
02:41 |
Live from Austin, Texas |
Neko Case |
| Birds |
03:31 |
Like A Hurricane: A Tribute to Neil Young (Uncut) |
Paul Weller |
| Mockingbird Canyon |
05:19 |
New Fire * Scott August |
Scott August |
| Hummingbird |
03:53 |
Slidedance |
Michael Messer Band |
| The Black Crow |
07:16 |
The Lioness |
Songs: Ohia |
| Crow Jane |
02:08 |
She Lyin' |
Skip James |
| Fish & Bird (London 11/23/04) |
03:55 |
Waitswatcher Awards 5 |
Tom Waits |
| Pretty Polly |
03:52 |
Josh Ritter |
Josh Ritter |
| Magic Feather |
03:03 |
Miracles For Beginners |
Nick Harper |
| Sparrows Point |
04:47 |
Sparrows Point |
Richard Shindell |
| Big Bird |
04:03 |
Sunday Best |
Sam Kelly's Station House |
| Fly...Night Bird |
07:43 |
Sweet Dreams: The Anthology Disk 2 |
Roy Buchanan |
| Goodbye Daughters Of the Revolution |
05:03 |
Warpaint |
The Black Crowes |
| If I Could Give All My Love (Richard Manuel is Dead) |
03:53 |
Hard Candy |
Counting Crows |
| Three Magpies |
03:19 |
Seed |
Nick Harper |
| Divin' Duck Blues |
03:16 |
Working Man's Blues |
Sleepy John Estes |
| Anthem Of The Universe |
04:16 |
Legends of Progressive Rock |
Wild Turkey |
More birds
Counting Crows were already there!
Other contributions waiting in the wings:
The Flycatcher, RH; Blackbird, The Beatles; Me and the Eagle, Steve Earle (written I think by Townes van Zandt); Birds, Neil Young; Woven Birds, Calexico; Fly Little Bird, Paul Weller (not sure that this is original); I Saw a Bird Fly Away, Dar Williams; Bird Stealing Bread, Iron & Wine; Big Bird, Steve Cropper & Albert King; Beautiful Bluebird, Neil Young; Raven, Lucinda Williams; White Bird, KT Tunstall; Mockingbird, Mose Allison; Songbird, Oasis; Songbird, Eva Cassidy; Bird Ornaments, Bill Nelson; Jets at Dawn, Be Bop Deluxe; The Coo-Coo Bird, Martin Simpson; Bird on a Wire, Perla Batalla; White Bird, It's A Beautiful Day; Bluebird, CSN; Surfin' Bird, The Trashmen; Oh Sister, Andrew Bird; Bird Flu, MIA; Dive, Babybird; Heretics, Andrew Bird; Me and Bird, Great Caesar's Ghost; Bluebird, Buffalo Springfield; Bluebird, JJ Cale; There'll be Bluebirds Over The White Cliffs of Dover, Robson & Jerome!!!!; Little Bird, Goldfrapp; Flightless Bird, American Mouth, Iron & Wine; Little Bird, Emmylou Harris; Railbirds, Tom Waits; Bird Flew By, Nick Drake; Pink Thunderbird, Gene Vincent; anything by the Yardbirds or Charlie "Bird" Parker; Wounded Bird, The Black Crowes; Birds & Blue Stuff, Bill Nelson; Because, The Bird & The Bee..... and that ignores most other songs named after varieties of birds!
Bob
Whistling composition
I may be wrong but I have been thinking for years that I've never heard a whole song with just whistling....like a whole orchestral sort of Tubular Belly type of an arrangement using latest technology and effects? Apart from that Pink Floyd one where it sounds like you're in a tropical forest with loads of weird bird noises. Didn't the Beatles also do 'And your bird can sing'?
andi
I was Kaiser Bill's Batman
by Whistling Jack Smith was a novelty single in the 60s. Just whistling accompanied byjaunty pop instrumentation. I loved it when I was about 12 but I wouldn't recommend it to a grownup.
Birds
SHAUN I
One of my favourites to include perhaps Bob - Packard Goose By Frank Zappa..
Regards shaun.
I'd have to research that one ...
Bob