You Are My Little Bird

Elizabeth Mitchell - You Are My Little Bird

You Are My Little Bird
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Artist: Elizabeth Mitchell
Brand: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2006-08-29
Model: SFW45063
Music Label: Smithsonian Folkways
Soundtracks:
  1. Little Liza Jane
  2. Who?s My Pretty Little Baby
  3. Zousan (Little Elephant)
  4. Little Bird, Little Bird
  5. Three Little Birds
  6. What Goes On
  7. Pom Na Tu Ri (Springtime Outing)
  8. Buckeye Jim
  9. Peace Like a River
  10. Los Pollitos (The Little Chicks)
  11. Winter?s Come and Gone
  12. Little Wing
  13. Lily Pond
  14. The North Wind
  15. If You Listen
  16. Down in the Valley
  17. Grassy Grass Grass

Music reviews of You Are My Little Bird

Music Review: Sweet, Mellow, Perfect; The Most Listen-able Children's Music I've Encountered
Rating: 5 Stars

My children have compiled a great deal of music in their short little lives. Some of it I loathe and find cheesy, obnoxious, shrill and just plain annoying. Other things I might like a great deal - but I have to be in the right mood to listen to them, like John Lithgow or Sam Hines.

Elizabeth Mitchell's bird-themed album falls in neither of those categories. I knew from the first listen that this is music I could tolerate - actually, enjoy - whether the household was in chaos, or we were all just sitting down and quietly enjoying one another's company.

I didn't tell the kids I purchased it for them, just listened to it myself once, then a second time. Later that afternoon my four year old said, "Play that music with the Liza Jane song." She sat enraptured through the whole disc. My two-year old soon followed suit; In fact, as I write this review she's in the kitchen singing along with her sweet, soft, lisping baby voice. It took both girls less than a week to memorize most of the words in most of the songs. They play this CD daily of their own accord.

The songs are a wonderful mix - many are bird themed, but not all. Many of the songs will be a little familiar, if in a less than usual way. There are songs by Pete Seeger, Bob Marley, Velvet Underground, Gillian Welch, Neil Young and Woody Guthrie. Each is softened, slowed down a bit, with gentle vocals, soft guitar, and often the overlapping sounds of children's voices - including the singer's daughter. Other songs are traditional folk songs from other cultures, with the first verse sung in the original language, and the second sung in English.

The entire album fits together perfectly. I can't imagine a child who wouldn't be pleased with it, or a parent who wouldn't be thrilled to find something so listenable, and yet so clearly aimed at children. I think it's just perfect, and I will definitely be buying more of Elizabeth Mitchell's music in the future.
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Description of You Are My Little Bird

Once in a great while we encounter an artist who stands consciously and directly in the tradition of children's music that Folkways has carried for nearly 60 years, and Elizabeth Mitchell is one such artist. Her lovely voice brings a fresh sound to cherished American folk songs and other melodies from around the world. In a peaceful yet powerful way, she reintroduces us to the songs we thought we knew so well. Featuring homespun renditions of songs by Woody Guthrie, Bob Marley, The Velvet Underground, Vashti Bunyan, Gillian Welch and more! 28-page booklet, 17 tracks, 35 minutes.
Elizabeth Mitchell is to children?s music what a band like True Love is to indie rock: an insider's darling. Which can only mean one thing: any day now, she's going to blow up huge. You Are My Little Bird, Mitchell's third kids? CD and her first on the well-respected Smithsonian Folkways label, hews closely to the folkie-but-never-hokey sensibility she laid out so beautifully on the first two records. Here are 17 short, soft, sweet, homespun-sounding songs, some of them easily recognizable ("Peace Like a River," "Three Little Birds," "Down in the Valley"), some of them inexplicably obscure (Neil Young's "Little Wing," Gillian Welch and David Rawling's "Winter's Come and Gone," Francois Hardy's magical "If You Listen"). Throughout, even on tracks where her young daughter joins in, Mitchell's warm whisper of a voice compels a close listen, not just because the production is so spare you can practically feel her breath on your cheek but because there's something in her phrasing that suggests an old, wise soul. Miraculously, the bird concept never gets clunky; two exotic foreign-language songs--one Korean and one Japanese--help, but the real credit belongs to this all-around superb disc's sole stab at the subversive: Mitchell's stamp on "What Goes On," the Velvet Underground favorite, practically sails off the disc with its sunniness. --Tammy La Gorce

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