ANDREW BIRD Live at Grimey's Too: at Grimey's New & Preloved Music (Nashville, TN) Thu. March 7, 2013

ANDREW BIRD Live at Grimey's Too

As if having the lovely and talented Caitlin Rose play in the store wasn't enough, now we've gone and added Andrew Bird to the bill as well! Mr. Bird is in town to play the "Bluegrass Underground" show in Cumberland Caverns and asked if we could squeeze him in for a 3rd in-store at Grimey's. Andrew's latest release "Hands Of Glory" is out now. He filled up The Ryman last time he played in town so I would expect a big crowd for this free, all ages performance. Get here early to take in the refreshing sounds of Caitlin Rose and hang around for a very special intimate performance from Andrew Bird!

Grimey's New & Preloved Music

Thu. 3/7/13
Show: 7:00 PM
Free
All ages
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andrew bird - Armchair Apocrypha Review (from ultimate-guitar)

Sound: Andrew Bird's 2007 album 'Armchair Apocrypha' is, in my opinion, sublime. He is a pretty unique artist, falling into the genres of baroque pop and violindie. It is impossible for me to be completely objective about this album, but I will do my best. The songs tend to be fairly simple in their construction, usually based around a single catchy riff on the violin or guitar (e.g. 'Heretics', 'Imitosis'), and following a basic structure of verses and choruses with the occasional bridge or sol......

Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha (from Soundspike)

Riding the critical accolades heaped on 2005's "Mysterious Production of Eggs," Andrew Bird returns this week with his Fat Possum debut, "Armchair Apocrypha." Continuing where "Mysterious Production" left off, "Apocrypha" again finds Bird crafting intricate, yet economical, pop songs, all averaging around the four-minute mark. As interesting and accomplished a lyricist as he is a composer, Bird constructs stories within his songs that rival the expansive, multi-instrumental sound he's developed......

Andrew Bird - The Swimming Hour (from SputnikMusic)

Summary: Ladies and gentlemen: Professor Bird Unfortunately hidden in the back end of Andrew Bird's (progressively extensive) catalogue, The Swimming Hour shows a different side of the violinist/singer/whistler extraordinaire. Fresh off his stint with the excellent Squirrel Nut Zippers, Bird remains in that revivalist mindset, but unlike his former band, he doesn't stick to a neo-swing revival. That's there too, but The Swimming Hour more than anything acts as a history book of American musical......

Andrew Bird - Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha (from Uncut)

Recently figuring on albums by My Morning Jacket, Will Oldham and Candi Staton, Bird has been releasing eclectic solo work of his own for a decade. Embracing swing, rock'n'roll, folk and country, his earlier LPs seemed to act as repository for a welter of American traditions. But the last two years have seen him focus on the rockier end of the spectrum. Armchair Apocrypha finds Bird rushing ever upward: marrying the restive explorations of Eno with the chamber-pop playfulness of '70s John Cale......

Andrew Bird - The Swimming Hour (from sputnikmusic)

Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha (from Hour)

The violin is possibly not the first instrument you associate with modern indie music, but underpropped ace wielder Andrew Bird has been trying to sway our narrow vision over the course of seven albums of delicious pop collectibles. Armchair Apocrypha is a full band effort made in and around Minneapolis, as per usual the focus being Bird's bowing and picking (on violin, guitar and ivory), his whetted whistling and spooky tales. All in all this is a less solitary-sounding album than presents past......

Andrew Bird - Andrew Bird - Weather Systems (from Uncut)

This Chicagoan is unique in being an astonishing violin virtuoso devoting himself almost entirely to pop music. Founding Andrew Bird's Bowl Of Fire in the mid-'90s, his best work (2001's The Swimming Hour) takes in Appalachia, jump-blues and orch-pop in a flash-flood of American tradition. With Mark (Lambchop) Nevers producing, Weather Systems distills that same musical heritage into a new, supple-fresh language of strings, glockenspiel, wurlitzer and tape loops. Densely textured, it's perfectly......

Andrew Bird - Useless Creatures (from thecmuwebsite)

The instrumental album 'Useless Creatures' was originally released as a bonus disc on the limited edition version of Andrew Bird's 2009 LP 'Noble Beast'. It is utterly something special, I can't stress this enough. Only when I saw Bird perform live for the first time last year did I realise just how excellent a musician this man really is, on top of his huge skills as a songwriter. And, for me, it is this album that fully demonstrates this fact on record. Sure, the jaunty whistles and ton......

Andrew Bird - Useless Creatures (from Pop Matters)

Useless Creatures was originally released as part of the deluxe edition of 2009's Noble Beast. Once that fact is in the air, it's hard to shake the bonus track feel of the album. Over ten days in a Chicago studio, Andrew Bird recorded a set of loopy, atmospheric instrumentals with percussionist Glenn Kotche and bassist Todd Sickafoose. The relative isolation of the project and Bird's description of the result as an "ambient experimental record" make it tempting to dismiss Useless Creatures as on......

Andrew Bird - Useless Creatures (from Pop Matters)

Andrew Bird - Useless Creatures (from Filter Magazine)

Multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird has carved out such a specific niche in the world of pop music that he's characterized by a certain un-characterization. He's proven he can play equally in intimate stripped-down settings that wouldn't be out of place in fin de siècle salons or share stages at major festivals alongside Radiohead. Not to mention his signature whistling makes a theremin work harder. While his albums have all varied stylistically, Useless Creatures was recorded specifically as an......

Andrew Bird - Useless Creatures (from Quietus)

Andrew Bird is vocal to the point of boasting about the constant, immaculate conception of melodies in his head; melodies that seem to come from nowhere and crawl outwards towards an audience that smile like sleeping cats. But he is vocal in a more appreciable way about, indeed, his vocals. His lyrics are more consciously constructed, usually designed around the use of archaic, rare or splendid-sounding words. This winning combination makes songs that feel something like Theo Jansen's kinetic sc......

Andrew Bird - Norman (Soundtrack) (from popmatters)

So, full disclosure I, suppose: if I'd have known Norman were a soundtrack before I had the opportunity to review it, I wouldn't have been interested in covering it. For me, the appeal in Andrew Bird has always lied in his vocals and the strange tales he decides to tell over his violin loops and guitar strums. I was taken by his instrumental sensibilities, sure, but only in the sense that it was pretty amazing to see him pull them off live in the years following The Mysterious Production of Eggs......

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