Frogs singing Andrew Bird Cover

[Jean Pierre]

Cecile and guillaume, my daughter and her husband
a cover of "singing frogs" by Andrew Bird

Why? ... because for Christmas it's decided, I ask Santa to play a violin

Cécile: tenor ukulele, mandolin, bass, vocals, choirs
Guillaume : baritone ukulele, drums, choirs

[Farrell Jackson]

I don't know this song but Cecile and Guillaume do this very nicely!

Thanks for posting.

Farrell

[Groundy]

This is beautiful JP,
Top class playing and harmony,


Alex.

[Jean Pierre]

thanks

for Farell :
Andrew Wegman Bird (born July 11, 1973) is an American violinist, singer, and songwriter. He was a member of the bands Squirrel Nut Zippers and Bowl of Fire before pursuing a solo career. His main instrument is violin, but he also plays guitar and glockenspiel and is an expert whistler. Andrew Bird currently lives in Los Angeles (wiki)


the story of this song

it's originally a Handesome family song
here handesome family version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjLFQ_rUh3c

taken over by Andrew Bird with another different music

here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxgfWETcapo&list=RDQxgfWETcapo

[Mach]

I never heard of Andrew Bird, but Cecile and Guillaume sound really great. Nice recording, singing and playing here.

Mach

[Jean Pierre]

Thank you Mach, ... I did not know either before my daughter made me discover this singer, instrumentist

I like his way of doing struming fiddle

listen to this NPR Music concert it's worth it (if we like acoustic sound, of course ..)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGAzPtwUJJU

bye

[Mach]

Thanks for posting this JP. These guys sound really good. I've never seen anyone pull off that lead playing on a fiddle. I mean the bluegrass guys at festivals would pluck them to get a rhythmic effect, but what Andrew was doing is very cool. That Bass player is amazing.

I could only see 2 mics in front and couldn't tell what they were (ribbon, sm57's) because of wind shields.

These NPR tiny desk recordings are always so clean and well balanced, so I looked up the sound engineer, Josh Rogosin, and found this on set-up. Sennheisers. There are also more vids about him.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e07bI5rz6FY

[Jean Pierre]

EXcellent Mach!

These NPR tiny desk recordings are always so clean and well balanced

Yes exactly my opinion all the NPR tiny desk are liittle wonders

thanks for the information about "How we recor audio in the NPR ", very interesting

[danieldesete]

Hey I'm a big A Bird fan, and I can tell to did a master cover here !

[Ronniejm]

what a talented family, the vocals on this work so well together, not familiar with the song but the playing sounds perfectly suited to the song.

Your family get togethers must be tremendous fun.

Cheers

Ronnie