You Are My Little Bird

You Are My Little Bird
Studio album by Elizabeth Mitchell
Released August 29, 2006
Genre Children's music, Folk
Length 34
Label Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Producer Elizabeth Mitchell and Warren Defever
Elizabeth Mitchell chronology
Catch the Moon
(2003)		 You Are My Little Bird
(2006)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
eMusic(favorable)[1]
School Library Journal(very favorable)[2]

You Are My Little Bird is an album by Elizabeth Mitchell, released in 2006 by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. The album is a collection of children's music played in a folk music style. In addition to versions of folk tunes, it features covers of a variety of songs by other artists, among them "What Goes On" by The Velvet Underground, Neil Young's "Little Wing", and "Three Little Birds" by Bob Marley. On most of the songs, Mitchell is accompanied by family members.[3] The liner notes include personal stories from the artist, but no lyrics.

The song Little Bird, Little Bird was used in the Futurama episode, Lethal Inspection.

Track listing

  1. "Little Liza Jane" — 2:24
  2. "Who's My Pretty Baby" — 1:53
  3. "Zousan (Little Elephant)" — 1:38
  4. "Little Bird, Little Bird" — 2:28
  5. "Three Little Birds" — 2:34
  6. "What Goes On" — 2:54
  7. "Pom Na Tu Ri (Springtime Outing)" — 1:20
  8. "Buckeye Jim" — 2:01
  9. "Peace Like a River" — 2:57
  10. "Los Pollitos (The Little Chicks)" — 1:50
  11. "Winter's Come and Gone" — 1:59
  12. "Little Wing" — 2:38
  13. "Lily Pond" — 0:59
  14. "The North Wind" — 0:38
  15. "If You Listen" — 3:11
  16. "Down in the Valley" — 2:22
  17. "Grassy Grass Grass" — 0:56

Critical reception

Warren Truit with School Library Journal called the album "a superb and eclectic group of songs performed uniquely, yet flawlessly."[2]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Davis, Amy (February 28, 2007). "Music for Little Birds: Elizabeth Mitchell review". eMusic.
  2. 1 2 Truitt, Warren (July 2007), "12 KIDS' ALBUMS YOU CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT". School Library Journal. 53 (7):30-35
  3. ↑ Ostergard, Maren (January 2007), "You Are My Little Bird". School Library Journal. 53(1):72


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