REDBIRD is both the name of an album and of a loose affiliation of four American songwriters that began to take shape during a common tour experience. In early 2003, KRIS DELMHORST, JEFFREY FOUCAULT, and PETER MULVEY toured together in England as an Americana triple-bill. England is a small country and the drives were not long, and it developed that in the afternoons after checking into their hotel rooms theyd pull up chairs, plug in the electric tea kettle, uncase their guitars, and start playing songs. Any song, if it was good, and they hadnt already played it, and they knew the first few lines. Old or new songs, written by other people mostly, jazz ballads or country crooners, blues or Bowie, the Beatles or anything else, all the late greats and plenty of neither, anything as long as it had the right spirit. Something like a poker game played without hard money, and everyone pushing their little pile of strange coins and trinkets, pocket knife or compass, to the middle of the table to be reckoned.

001    	Greg Brown                    	Ships
002    	Irving Mills                  	Moonglow
003    	Mark Sandman                  	Patience
004    	Bob Dylan                     	Buckets of Rain
005    	Jayne-Stewart                 	The Whole World Round
006    	Peter Mulvey                  	Ithaca
007    	Paul Cebar                    	Lovely as the Day Is Long
008    	Traditional                   	Moonshiner
009    	David Goodrich                	Redbird Waltz
010    	Kris Delmhorst                	Lullaby 101
011    	Willie Nelson                 	I Gotta Get Drunk
012    	Ry Cavanaugh                  	Lighthouse Light
013    	R.e.m.                        	You Are the Everything
014    	Yeats-Traditional             	Down by the Sally Garden
015    	L. Baltimore                  	Redbird
016    	Jeffery Foucault              	Drunk Lullaby
017    	Tom Waits                     	Hold on

I love this music, enjoy!