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Article: Bird songs Andrew Bird finds musical garden in rural lifestyle.(Time Out!)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- April 4, 2003
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Byline: Mark Guarino Daily Herald Music Critic
Andrew Bird with Shu Shubat and Jellyeye Band
Where: Old Town School of Folk Music, 4544 N. Lincoln Ave., Chicago
When: 7:30 p.m. Saturday
Tickets: $14/ $16/$18 (773) 728-6000
Ghostly whistling opens Andrew Bird's newest album while a choir of fiddles flutters away like birds. Then a guitar is slowly fingered, picking up the tempo, leading to his opening lyric. "Then it was dusk in Illinois," he murmurs. You swear you can see stalks of corn, swaying in a field.
In just a few moments, Bird has set the mood for a lonely Midwestern night where, sitting under the stars, the ...