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| From | jimsouls@aol.com |
| Subject | Re: Suggestions for the Tweener Crowd |
| Date | Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:53:18 -0500 |
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Robert,
I heartily recommend Elizabeth Mitchell's "You Are My Little Bird" album from 2006. It's on the Smithsonian Folkways label. A folksy pop record?with tasteful, mostly acoustic arrangements of songs by the likes of Neil Young ('Little Wing"),?the Velvet Underground?("What Goes On"), Bob Marley ("Little Bird"), Gillian Welch ('Winters Come and Gone") and Woody Guthrie ("Who's My Pretty Baby"). Lovely singing by Mitchell with instrumental assistance from Daniel Littleton (her husband and bandmate in Ida) and His Name is Alive's Warren Defever. A true gem of a kids record that?kids?won't necessarily outgrow. My wife and I love it and we don't have children. If your daughter likes it you'll have her listening to Buddy Holly, the Everly Brothers and?some?of the better?folkies?in no time. And if she doesn't, you can still listen to it yourself.
Mitchell?has?made?other?children's albums,?including one?called "Catch the Moon"?with her old college roommate Lisa Loeb.?It's?also excellent though a bit more geared toward the toddler crowd.
Jim McGuinness
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