More new listening: Bird Songs

Bob Jacobs's picture

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!

 

Bird Songs      
32 songs, 2.5 hours, 160.1 MB  
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

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Bob Jacobs's picture

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

aspwatterson's picture

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

Bob Jacobs's picture

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.

SHAUN I's picture

Birds

SHAUN I

One of my favourites to include perhaps Bob - Packard Goose By Frank Zappa..

Regards shaun.

Bob Jacobs's picture

I'd have to research that one ...

Bob