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This Little Bird - Ce Petit Oiseau (originals)

by Allison Crowe View the credits

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folk rock piano chanson vocal indie acoustic singersongwriter guitar pop

9 tracks

38:29

1	Effortless	4:42
2	Skeletons and Spirits	3:19
3	Alive and Breathing	4:33
4	There Is	3:27
5	Now	4:54
6	Silence	5:57
7	Circular Reasoning	3:26
8	Phoenix	4:32
9	This Little Bird	3:39

Album description

"This Little Bird" contains everything to love about the music of Allison Crowe. Adding titles of engineer and producer to her vocal, piano and guitar credits, Crowe is joined on most of the album's tracks by an ideal rhythm section ~ Dave Baird (bass) and Laurent Boucher (percussion). Nine new originals map emotional and spiritual territory with fresh sounds, encompassing: the elegiac "Phoenix"; the ramble tamble "Alive and Breathing"; gorgeous songs of love and hope, "Effortless" and "There Is"; the jaunty dark humor of "Skeletons and Spirits"; the redemptive grace of "Now"; the raucous celebration of the title track; a joy of simplicity in "Circular Reasoning"; and "Silence", a song that stirs with gypsy romance.

Acclaimed not only as an exciting songwriter and live performer, but, also, as a supreme song interpreter, for her freshly definitive takes, Allison Crowe delivers a trio of remarkable covers on "This Little Bird" - giving her singular voice to "A Case of You" (Joni Mitchell's knowing paen to heart and homeland), "Darling Be Home Soon" (John Sebastian's lovin' spoonful of longing) and "I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)" (Ronnie Shannon's soulful song best-known as Aretha Franklin's break-out tune in 1967).

You will find those three songs and more on Allison's home site @ http://www.allisoncrowe.com/ThisLittleBird.html

Enjoy! Peace.

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Rocketman

Soulful Melancholy

02/05/07

This album deserves to become a Jamendo all time favorite. If you like folk music it must be in your collection.

Allison's rich voice is accompanied by soothing piano or acoustic guitar, bass and percussion. The lyrics have depth and the singing emotion.

The recording quality of the album is at the professional level.

This album reminds me of some of my favorite artists, Tori Amos and Eva Cassidy.

zeolite

Great voice

23/04/08

Blown away by the fantastic voice and great songs. This woman must be on the way to stardom.

nacnud

Wonderful audibles

13/06/07

Well mixed, deep earthy sounds...

I was never a fan of Tori Amos. Sound is familiar, but much better. Tres bien..

kevinlyfellow

Nothing Better

16/05/07

Ok, there are a few things better, but not a whole lot. Eating, drinking, and breathing are pretty tough to beat. This is my first review at Jamendo and I just have to say that this artist proves that great open music is entirely possible.

What really got me hooked to this album was the song "Skeletons and Spirits". I don't really know how to critique a song, so I'll just say that its wicked good :-). Next I started paying attention to the haunting song "Silence." That sent chills up my spine. Every time I listen to the album another song shines, this time around it is the first song, "Effortless." She deserves to win every major music award on the face of the planet. I like this artist, if you couldn't tell.

So then I jumped on over to her website and after sorting out a chronology for her albums, I found out that she excluded some songs from the album because they were covers, but you could download them from her site. Unfortunately they're mp3, but whatever. I haven't listened to all of them yet, because I was too busy listening to all the other content on her sight and also watching her Christmas special. She has good taste in art btw, John William Waterhouse is my favourite painter.

Moving right along, it took me a little while to get use to her vibrato. Its just something I never had heard in a professional artists, well, not to the extent she puts into her music. So if your thinking to yourself, "Man, that's way too much vibrato," just give it a little time, you'll learn to love it.

So, in summary, enjoy this album and be sure to drop by her website and check out all of her other stuff.

Kray Van Kirk

Utterly delightful

03/05/07

A staggering voice, clean arrangements, wry humor, and wonderful melodies. She sings precisely the sort of music I can't, but would love to! An outstanding collection of songs.

blueyonder64

Awesome

06/09/09

Wow, how have I missed this as much as I visit this site? Great vocals, beautiful piano, and sometimes haunting melodies. All I can say is wonderful, just wonderful!

Miriam Venus

Awesome

29/08/09

WOW! AMAZING!!!

musictomyears

It The Voice Of A Soul Filled Diva....Allison Crowe

01/08/09

It's the voice of a soul filled, heartfelt, compassionate, honest, wholesome, lady diva..called Allison Crowe, that does it for me on this album, then the perfection in the music, that accompanies her on her her amazing captivating, atmospheric tracks. This is an album, worthily of an award, as a great album, with awesome vocals, and perfection to music. On Jamendo. Let alone one of the most listen to, and download albums in general on here..

treemaker

seemingly effortless

01/04/09

but this album has great depth and feeling and Ms Crowe has a very fine, beautiful voice - somehow she reminds me of Buffy St-Marie and Sia amongst others but her own style, I am very impressed and pleased to listen to this album and I would recommend Ms Crowe to anyone who likes Feist or Regina Spector.