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Vinyl LP pressing. 2017 release. With a musical timeline dating back to her early childhood, Laura Baird is an exceptionally talented multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter, best known for her projects with her sister, Meg, as The Baird Sisters, and guitarist Glenn Jones. Baird's own sound stems from the Appalachian folk tradition, and she connects to it via family lineage-her great-great uncle I.G. Greer's folk recordings for the Library of Congress are a large influence. Also woven in are classical composers like Bach and Satie, and modern day musicians such as Opal and Yo La Tengo. With this debut solo album, I Wish I Were A Sparrow, Baird plays odes to the traditions from which she learned, combining Appalachian balladry and the roughness of old field recordings, but there is also a dose of dreaminess and solitude that captures sleepy central New Jersey.
A1 Wind, Wind
A2 Dreadful Wind And Rain
A3 Cuckoo
A4 Love Song From The Earth To The Moon
A5 Pretty Saro
B1 Bats
B2 Did You Come Here Alone?
B3 Pretty Polly
B4 Hay In The Wagon
B5 Home Is Where You Are
B6 Poor Orphan Child
B7 Twin Sisters
