Elizabeth Mitchell - You Are My Little Bird
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Free Music Review: I am thrilled to have found this cd!
Hit: 5 Stars
Have you had it with loud, super silly kid's music that repeats endlessly in your head, long after you've heard it? Does your child wake early, and want to listen to music? Do you want a mellow and sweet way to start the day with your child?
If so, Elizabeth Mitchell's new CD might save your child music weary self. You Are My Little Bird is a collection of simple, unassuming and peaceful songs that will have you and your child singing and humming along. The music is all acoustic and the sweet little voice of Mithcell's daughter and husband add depth and beauty to the new, classic, and multicultural songs that span this CD.
I've learned many new songs to sing with my toddler from this CD. It is usually the first music we listen to early in the morning. Today I left the CD on when my daughter and I went upstairs and my husband actually left it playing!
Some of my personal favorites on the album include "Who's my Pretty Baby", "Little Bird, Little Bird" and "Peace like a River." These simple, beautiful songs are gems to hear, to sing, and watch your child react to.
Mitchell breathes new life into classic songs and nursery rhymes. She turns expected songs from Bob Marley, Neil Young, and even the Velvet Underground, into accessible, fun, children's tunes (or tunes for any age, for that matter). My little girl loves hearing Storey, Elizabeth's daughter, singing throughout the album.
I am thrilled to have found Elizabeth Mitchell. My daughter and I will be singing our favorites for years, I am certain.
This CD is from the incredible Smithsonian Folkways Collection. There are several other great CDs in this collection all honoring the great traditions of folk music through time. - Katy Farber
Free Music Review: My new favorite CD - oh, and our kids love it, too!
Hit: 5 Stars
My family and I LOVE Elizabeth Mitchell... in a big way. So when I say that this new CD is my favorite, it's not something I say lightly. But it's true - and it's not just my new favorite Elizabeth Mitchell CD - it's my favorite CD period. Why? It's just fantastic. The songs are beautiful, simple, nostalgic, fun, full of character, love, warmth and magic. It's Elizabeth Mitchell at her best - with just her voice and guitar and husband and child accompanying her. Simple and perfect.
And our kids love it, too. My daughter (aged almost 3) has had a special love for Elizabeth Mitchell ever since she was 2 months old (when we first heard of Elizabeth Mitchell). Ms. Mitchell's beautiful, soothing voice and captivating melodies has always put my daughter into a kind of hypnotic trance.... and this CD is no exception. Our son (nearly 1.5 years old) really loves this new one, too. His reaction, however, is to hop up and down vigourously (his version of dancing).
And the best thing of all is not that just this CD will calm and relax the kids, or entertain them, but us parents love it, too. The songs are either old favorites (like the Velvet Underground's "What Goes On") or familiar ("Little Liza Jane" and "Peace Like a River") or new ones (to us) that are catchy enough to learn and sing along. But the songs are never corny or hokey like so many other children's CD's are these days. This is real music that will become a treasured part of your family.
I can't recommend this CD (or Elizabeth Mitchell - and Dan Littleton and Storey) highly enough. Everyone should go buy it immediately - unless you know me personally, in which case you'll be getting it from me as a gift!!!
Free Music Review: A compilation of some of her best work over the years
Hit: 5 Stars
Elizabeth Mitchell has a well deserved reputation for her children's music. Her homemade (quite literally being recorded out of her home in the Catskill mountains with her husband and musical partner Daniel Littleton) and intimate recordings draw heavily on old-time folk, blues, and country songs adapted into what has become a wealth of musical classics for youngsters. "You Are My Little Bird" is a compilation of some of her best work over the years and deftly reflects her contributions to the genre. Highly recommended for family and community library CD music collections for young children and showcasing seventeen titles with a total running time of 34 minutes, the individual pieces include Little Liza Jane (2:24); Whose My Pretty Baby (1:53); Zousan/Little Elephant (1:39); Little bird, Little Bird (2:28); Three Little Birds (2:33); What Goes On (2:53); Pom Na Tu Ri/Springtime Outing (1:20); Buckeye Jim (2:01); Peace Like A River (2:57); Los Pollitos/The Little Chicks (1:51); Winter's Come And gone (1:59); Little Wing (2:39); Lilly Pond (0:59); The North Wind (0:39); If You Listen (3:12); Down In The Valley (2:21); and Grassy Grass Grass (0:56).Free Music Review: Incredible CD!
Hit: 5 Stars
I am new to Elzabeth Mitchell's work, but this CD has me -- and my family -- hooked! I love the stripped down beauty of the songs, the clarity of Ms. Mitchell's voice and the uncontrived participation of her daughter. I find myself listening to this as I pack lunches or do dishes -- after my kids are in bed! My 4-year-old and 2 1/2-year-old can't get enough. My older daughter in particular loves the addition of a child's voice and was simply thrilled to learn that it is Ms. Mitchell's daughter, not just any child, lending a voice and harmonica riff. Favorite tracks (okay, we love them all, but these are our current over-and-over again listens): Little Liza Jane, Three Little Birds (who knew Bob Marley could write a children's song?), My Pretty Little Baby. We have lots of kids' music, much of which has some adult appeal, but this is a quieter, more gentle listen. While we love music that moves our little ones with frenetic energy and lyrical implorings for kids to clap along, dance along or sing along, this CD, in its quiet way, inspires kids to participate without making the explicit request for them to do so.Free Music Review: Beautiful
Hit: 5 Stars
Just the best. I buy this album or ("You Are My Sunshine" or "You Are My Flower") everytime I need to get someone a baby gift. The better I know/like someone...the more albums I buy them. Here is the thing - I find myself listening to these CDs on the rare occasion I am alone in the car. I have Led Zeppelin, Jim Morrison, Liz Phair, Haydn's "Orlando Paladino," and the Rosary in my CD changer right now (to give you an idea of my taste), in addition to Elizabeth Mitchell. The only two CDs I always keep in there are a) the Rosary (I like the one narrated by Father Scallon myself) and b) Elizabeth Mitchell. With six kids ages 1-11 I can tell you that sometimes we need to just relax...and other times we need to rock out. Ms. Mitchell will do both. I cannot remember how I stumbled upon her years ago (or why it's taken me so long to write a review...oh yeah...all the kids....) - but I am so glad that I (notorious cheapskate) plunked down a lousy few bucks for her music. You can't put a price tag on the joy her music will bring you.