9 responses to “Happy Halloween: A Look at Andrew Bird and the Mississippi Sheiks”

  1. oh hi

    late comment is late, but I love the way you analyze and write about songs. also your costume is kickass. I want to copy it. what is in the death kit? I should gather the contents and assemble it before next Halloween so that the kit is old.

  2. oh hi

    (not sure if this went through the first time, so I’m trying again.)
    late comment is late, but I love the way you analyze and write about songs. also your costume is kickass. I want to copy it. what is in the death kit? I should gather the contents and assemble it before next Halloween so that the kit is old.

  3. Louis

    Hmm- nice post! Hope this comment isn’t waaaay too late.

    You should check out some of the older live recording of Abird from the archive.org live music section. Fake Palindromes is a direct mash of two other songs–“Trepanation” and “Blood”, I think. There’s a great Halloween show with a couple songs that turned into others.

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