Birds of Chicago
Birds of Chicago, is a collective based around JT Nero and Allison Russell.… Read Full Bio ↴Birds of Chicago, is a collective based around JT Nero and Allison Russell. Whether touring as a duo or with the full family band, Nero and Russell have emerged as two of the most compelling new voices in North American Roots music.
For several years Russell and Nero’s respective bands, Po' Girl (Vancouver, BC) and JT and the Clouds (Chicago, IL), have collaborated extensively, but on 2011’s Mountains/Forests, released under the JT Nero banner, they tapped into the true, bewitching power of their voices together on an entire record. It also featured the full cast of characters that would round out the Birds of Chicago ensemble -- the Clouds and Michelle McGrath, the luminous singer and picker from the hidden hills of Southeast Ohio.
The record received critical raves and won them new fans on both side of the Atlantic, and created a great deal of excitement for the first official Birds of Chicago album, slated for release on October 2, 2012.
Nero’s fractured country-soul voice wrapped in Russell’s silver and gold tones, is a fine thing. Not too perfect, not at all saccharine, you’ll hear echoes of mountain gospel, street corner doo-wop, and classic soul. Accompanied by just a banjo and a guitar, it’s haunting. Fired by the band, it’s a full tilt revival.
Nero and Russell are most at home on the road - pick almost any night in the next two years and you can bet they will be in some festival, theater, pub, VFW hall, roller rink (they wish) or living room, dovetailing their voices, singing their songs of hope, despair, love.... and electric seahorses. And honey bee apocalypses. And ice cream. It's familiar and strange stuff - the everyday and the magical. Come see ‘em, they won't be hard to find.
For several years Russell and Nero’s respective bands, Po' Girl (Vancouver, BC) and JT and the Clouds (Chicago, IL), have collaborated extensively, but on 2011’s Mountains/Forests, released under the JT Nero banner, they tapped into the true, bewitching power of their voices together on an entire record. It also featured the full cast of characters that would round out the Birds of Chicago ensemble -- the Clouds and Michelle McGrath, the luminous singer and picker from the hidden hills of Southeast Ohio.
The record received critical raves and won them new fans on both side of the Atlantic, and created a great deal of excitement for the first official Birds of Chicago album, slated for release on October 2, 2012.
Nero’s fractured country-soul voice wrapped in Russell’s silver and gold tones, is a fine thing. Not too perfect, not at all saccharine, you’ll hear echoes of mountain gospel, street corner doo-wop, and classic soul. Accompanied by just a banjo and a guitar, it’s haunting. Fired by the band, it’s a full tilt revival.
Nero and Russell are most at home on the road - pick almost any night in the next two years and you can bet they will be in some festival, theater, pub, VFW hall, roller rink (they wish) or living room, dovetailing their voices, singing their songs of hope, despair, love.... and electric seahorses. And honey bee apocalypses. And ice cream. It's familiar and strange stuff - the everyday and the magical. Come see ‘em, they won't be hard to find.
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Birds of Chicago Lyrics
Barley The wind that shakes the barley will not shake me The…
Cannonball Oh me, oh no Don′t let me see the sun seven…
Dim Star of the Palisades Twilight midnight then dawn Billion stars then there was one…
Estrella Goodbye Tomorrow's gonna come and kill tonight Least you could do Is…
Kinderspel Who put those mountains there Who dipped that sun in rose Wh…
Kinderspel (Child's Game) Who put those mountains there Who dipped that sun in rose Wh…
Real Midnight Real midnight's gonna come Real midnight's gonna come Real w…
Remember Wild Horses First daughter of a knight of Columbus, friend to moonbeams,…
Sparrow I had a dream we were dying we were falling…
The Good Fight There is a road covered with leaves now Between the rows Of…
Lily Haigis
on I Have Heard Words
Can't go home
There was no home
Ever
Get up, get up, get up
Act like you're grown
We can't linger by the door
We can drink a drink before the war
Come on, come on, come on
Rock with me, babe
Slow down your heart rate
Feel the earth turning slow
We can stay like this for a while
You know
And I have heard words that don't mean nothing
And I have said words that don't mean nothing
Now
Im trying to tell you that I'm scared of something
I'm scared of what's coming
I, I
I don't want to use words that don't mean nothing
Just to keep out the cold
I want you to
Hold me, hold me,
Hold me babe
(Piano solo)
As sparrows fly
You can not rest
You're never going to taste the clean air
Behind the sun
So I bleed all the color from your eyes
Trying to pick up different ways
To pay the night sky
'Cause the night is the night
Is the night alright
Come on, come on, come on
Rock with me
Slow down your heart rate
Feel the earth turning slow
We can stay like this for a while
You know
And I have heard words that don't mean nothing
And I have said words that don't mean nothing
Now
Im trying to tell you that I'm scared of something
I'm scared of what's coming
I, I
I don't want to use words that don't mean nothing
Just to keep out the cold
I want you to hold me, hold me,
Hold me babe
I don't want to use words
I don't want to use words
I don't want to use words
Ohh, hey
Ohh, hey
Come on baby down
Come on baby down
Come on baby
Hold me down
Ohh, hey
Ohh, hey
Ohhhhh