Thursday, December 3, 2009
Song For A Day - Sovay
One of my favorite My Morning Jacket tours was when Andrew Bird came along as support and did a few songs with the band every show (my other fave, when MMJ supported Doves).
Quiet and sort of dreamy, Andrew was fun to get to know, and I still laugh when I think about how we dragged him to a casino on some boat in St. Louis which was as dreadful as you can imagine. I spent half that tour TM'ing MMJ and Andrew and half with M. Ward. That was a lucky spring though I'm almost positive that aside from the joy in watching MMJ back up Andrew and Matt, I surely did not appreciate my lot in life.
Anyway, "Sovay" is my favorite Andrew Bird song so here it is in all its whistling divine glory. To this day he remains the only person whose whistling does not make me feel stabby.
Oh, and here's another version of the song with MMJ. Apparently it was recorded in Boulder in 2004 which means I would have been there, but of course I don't remember a thing. I need a time travel machine so I can go back and watch my life because clearly living it isn't catching my attention nearly well enough.
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I do love this song.
ReplyDeleteYou remind me - last night, Final Fantasy kept screwing up some of the piano parts that he was try to adapt/improvise during his set and had issues working the pedals on the sampler and the piano at the same time. During one of these moments, he quipped to the audience that they "must feel like they're at an Andrew Bird show," and it got a lot of laughs. I was unaware that he had a rep for that.
He's a mad genius and the whistling gets me every time.
ReplyDeleteThat boat is in EAST St. Louis, that's why it sucks so bad. I'm laughing in my head thinking about Andrew Bird, Tom and Patrick all sitting at slot machines in between several 70 year old chain smoking blue hairs.
ReplyDeleteAnd Jeff, the only reason Andrew Bird occasionally has to stop and re-set is because not only is he playing and looping a hundred things at once, he also likes experimenting with new things every night. I think he mentioned once that this risk and vulnerability is what keeps him and Dosh "into it" night after night.
i love that the two versions of the song that you posted are so different. the first time i heard "mysterious production" i thought, "why haven't i been listening to this for the last 6 months?!"
ReplyDeletealso, have never heard "stabby" used as an adjective. you're verbal innovator.