The two are close friends, and have developed an intensely creative approach to collaboration.
New album These 13 is out in March, and it follows Andrew Bird s Grammy nominated solo LP My Finest Work Yet .
Andrew comments. Up until meeting Jimbo, all my musical heroes were dead. Jimbo was anything but and just oozed musicality of a kind I thought was extinct. Had I not met Jimbo, who knows, but I think my music would have gone on a much more cerebral, complex trajectory. He is an enigma, a walking contradiction: wild yet refined, worldly yet colloquial. He represents his own branch of the American musical tree.
Written by Danielle Chiriguayo and Amy Ta, produced by Michell Eloy
Dec. 14, 2020 MORE Andrew Bird’s new album features classics like “White Christmas” and John Prine’s “Souvenir.” Andrew Bird collaborated on the cover art with his mom Beth Bird. Image courtesy of Andrew Bird.
Singer/songwriter Andrew Bird’s new holiday album features classics like “Oh Holy Night” and “Christmas is Coming,” plus original songs inspired by the coronavirus pandemic. It also includes less-traditional holiday songs such as John Prine’s “Souvenirs.” The album is called “Hark!”
Bird tells KCRW that his initial instinct was to write melancholic songs for the album. “My mind went to family dysfunction and alcoholism. I scrapped a lot of those tunes, thinking maybe people don’t need to hear this right now.”