You Are My Little Bird
by: Elizabeth Mitchell
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Your kids will listen and you'll be singing along. Not your typical CD for kids, this one is a mix of new, classic, & multicultural songs from an amazing mother, father, child trio. You'll fall in love with the acoustics, harmonies, and lilting melodies. Catchy tunes inspire a new sense of ease & wonder. Mitchell's little girl accompanies vocals, making it positively charming and even more appealing to young children. You'll find yourself playing this CD with variations on classics by Bob Marley, Neil Young, and even the Velvet underground, more often than you can guess. Fantastic for a new baby, this CD is one that parents enjoy every bit as much as the kids. It makes a cool and meaningful gift. Elizabeth Mitchell stands consciously and directly in the tradition of children's music. This CD features homespun renditions of songs by Woody Guthrie, Bob Marley, The Velvet Underground, Vashti Bunyan, Gillian Welch, and more. 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, this CD reintroduces us to the songs we thought we knew so well.You Are My Little Bird - Elizabeth MitchellAcoustic Guitar, Unforgettable Songs, Beautiful VoicesVoices of Elizabeth Mitchell, Her Husband & Daughter.This CD is 34 Minutes Includes a 28 Page Booklet Includes Songs Such as Little Liza Jane, Three Little Birds, & Buckeye JimAll Ages
Amazon.com:
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
Your kids will listen and you'll be singing along. Not your typical CD for kids, this one is a mix of new, classic, & multicultural songs from an amazing mother, father, child trio. You'll fall in love with the acoustics, harmonies, and lilting melodies. Catchy tunes inspire a new sense of ease & wonder. Mitchell's little girl accompanies vocals, making it positively charming and even more appealing to young children. You'll find yourself playing this CD with variations on classics by Bob Marley, Neil Young, and even the Velvet underground, more often than you can guess. Fantastic for a new baby, this CD is one that parents enjoy every bit as much as the kids. It makes a cool and meaningful gift. Elizabeth Mitchell stands consciously and directly in the tradition of children's music. This CD features homespun renditions of songs by Woody Guthrie, Bob Marley, The Velvet Underground, Vashti Bunyan, Gillian Welch, and more. 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, this CD reintroduces us to the songs we thought we knew so well.You Are My Little Bird - Elizabeth MitchellAcoustic Guitar, Unforgettable Songs, Beautiful VoicesVoices of Elizabeth Mitchell, Her Husband & Daughter.This CD is 34 Minutes Includes a 28 Page Booklet Includes Songs Such as Little Liza Jane, Three Little Birds, & Buckeye JimAll Ages
Amazon.com:
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
Disc 1:
- Little Liza Jane
- Whos My Pretty Little Baby
- Zousan (Little Elephant)
- Little Bird, Little Bird
- Three Little Birds
- What Goes On
- Pom Na Tu Ri (Springtime Outing)
- Buckeye Jim
- Peace Like a River
- Los Pollitos (The Little Chicks)
- Winters Come and Gone
- Little Wing
- Lily Pond
- The North Wind
- If You Listen
- Down in the Valley
- Grassy Grass Grass
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Instant favorite
From the very first time we heard this, my 3 year-old daughter and I have been loving and singing along with every song. The lyrics are light and easy for her her to understand. The music is warm and sunny. It's not "children's music", it's music for our whole family.
Rating: - Wow!
This album brings peace to our house... much needed with a 2 month old! And he loves the music, the perfect thing to lull him to sleep, and easy for me to sing along with as I rock him!
Rating: - I LOVE this CD!
I checked this CD out from the library and immediately fell in love with it so I bought it here at Amazon soon after. I play it while driving in my car and sing out loud to all the songs to entertain my baby. She loves it and I even find myself listening to it when I am alone in the car.Elizabeth Mitchell's voice is so beautiful, the song selection is great, and the little children's voices that join in occasionally are so sweet, not annoying like in other children's music I have heard. I definitely ... Read More
Rating: 
- Kids music you actually enjoy.
Great music for your toddlers. We keep music on to avoid the tv. I can listen to this all day.
Rating: - A children's CD that adults will love too
This is one of those few CDs that the entire family can listen to without the adults grinding their teeth and hoping for a burst eardrum rather than listen to another minute of drivel.
This CD makes my baby laugh and giggle nonstop.
- Instant favoriteFrom the very first time we heard this, my 3 year-old daughter and I have been loving and singing along with every song. The lyrics are light and easy for her her to understand. The music is warm and sunny. It's not "children's music", it's music for our whole family.
- Wow!This album brings peace to our house... much needed with a 2 month old! And he loves the music, the perfect thing to lull him to sleep, and easy for me to sing along with as I rock him!
- I LOVE this CD!I checked this CD out from the library and immediately fell in love with it so I bought it here at Amazon soon after. I play it while driving in my car and sing out loud to all the songs to entertain my baby. She loves it and I even find myself listening to it when I am alone in the car.Elizabeth Mitchell's voice is so beautiful, the song selection is great, and the little children's voices that join in occasionally are so sweet, not annoying like in other children's music I have heard. I definitely ... Read More
- Kids music you actually enjoy.Great music for your toddlers. We keep music on to avoid the tv. I can listen to this all day.
- A children's CD that adults will love tooThis is one of those few CDs that the entire family can listen to without the adults grinding their teeth and hoping for a burst eardrum rather than listen to another minute of drivel.
This CD makes my baby laugh and giggle nonstop.
