VA - Redbird (KRIS DELMHORST, JEFFREY FOUCAULT, PETER MULVEY, et

REDBIRD is both the name of an album and of a loose affiliation of four American songwriters that began to take shape during a common tour experience. In early 2003, KRIS DELMHORST, JEFFREY FOUCAULT, and PETER MULVEY toured together in England as an Americana triple-bill. England is a small country and the drives were not long, and it developed that in the afternoons after checking into their hotel rooms theyd pull up chairs, plug in the electric tea kettle, uncase their guitars, and start playing songs. Any song, if it was good, and they hadnt already played it, and they knew the first few lines. Old or new songs, written by other people mostly, jazz ballads or country crooners, blues or Bowie, the Beatles or anything else, all the late greats and plenty of neither, anything as long as it had the right spirit. Something like a poker game played without hard money, and everyone pushing their little pile of strange coins and trinkets, pocket knife or compass, to the middle of the table to be reckoned.

001 Greg Brown Ships
002 Irving Mills Moonglow
003 Mark Sandman Patience
004 Bob Dylan Buckets of Rain
005 Jayne-Stewart The Whole World Round
006 Peter Mulvey Ithaca
007 Paul Cebar Lovely as the Day Is Long
008 Traditional Moonshiner
009 David Goodrich Redbird Waltz
010 Kris Delmhorst Lullaby 101
011 Willie Nelson I Gotta Get Drunk
012 Ry Cavanaugh Lighthouse Light
013 R.e.m. You Are the Everything
014 Yeats-Traditional Down by the Sally Garden
015 L. Baltimore Redbird
016 Jeffery Foucault Drunk Lullaby
017 Tom Waits Hold on

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