Here’s a great song that’s completely new to me… I happened upon it while reading another song blog, I Wanna Live With a Musician. I find that I agree with this blogger’s taste a lot of the time, so when he goes on and on about a song the way he did about this one, I take notice.
Turns out Andrew Bird is a Chicago-based violinist (and whistler, according to his Web site) who has put out quite a few well-received albums. I haven’t listened to any of his work other than this song but this certainly makes me want to. So many artists, so little time.
Every year, the biggest award contenders are invariably rolled out to the masses in December, if we’re lucky. More often, they open in select cities in the last few weeks of the year and people in, say, Boynton Beach, Florida, don’t get to see them until January or even February.
