the bird and the bee
You’re all quite a bit hipper than me, I imagine, so you may have heard this already. But, I just got this the other day, and I am finding this to be more and more interesting with each listen.
Amazon was having a “Buy an mp3 album @ $7.99 and get a $5 album free” sale a few weeks ago. I bought Paul Simon’s Still Crazy After All These Years (which is amazing, and probably deserves its own blog post as well…and Paul Simon deserves some of your support…), and forgot that that meant I got a free album until the last day of the promotion. I looked through the $5 offerings and nothing really hit me (leave it to me to be ridiculously picky, even when it’s free) as something I wanted. Then I saw The Bird and the Bee’s first album (called the bird and the bee). I’d heard a few of their songs through KCRW and iTunes freebies, and I liked what I’d heard. I think that their version of “Carol of the Bells” is one of the most innovative arrangements I’ve heard in a long time.
Anyway, I got it and I’m really excited about it. Here is a sample track…great stuff!
“Again & Again” (from the bird and the bee) by The Bird and the Bee: