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Birds of My Neighborhood

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Released
  
August 10, 1999

Length
  
37:17

Label
  
Badman Recording Co.

Recorded
  
1997–1999

Producer
  
The Innocence Mission

Release date
  
10 August 1999

Birds of My Neighborhood(1999)
  
Genres
  
Folk music, Rock music, Alternative rock, Dream pop

Similar
  
The Innocence Mission albums, Rock music albums

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Birds of My Neighborhood is the fourth studio album by the Innocence Mission. Released in 1999 on Kneeling Elephant, a sub-label of RCA, the album was out of print until Badman Recording acquired the license to remaster and reissue it in 2006.

Contents

This was the group's first album as a trio following the departure of founding member Steve Brown in 1997. With the exception of his sole contribution to the album—drums and brushes on "Snow"—the album is largely bereft of drums. Don Peris played percussion on "Birdless" and the closing moments of "Green Grass, Red Tree," but otherwise the group adapted to its trio status by replacing Mike Bitt's electric bass with an upright bass and taking a more acoustic sound.

Their cover of "Follow Me" was recorded in late 1997 for Take Me Home, a John Denver tribute album which had an estimated release date of 1998. With the delay of that album's release, however, Don Peris asked that record's curator, Mark Kozelek of the Red House Painters, for permission to include the song on Birds of My Neighborhood. Kozelek agreed on the condition that the song still be included on the tribute album when a general release was finally given in April 2000.

Sufjan Stevens recorded a cover version of "The Lakes of Canada" in 2007.

Track listing

All tracks written by Karen Peris, except where noted.

Personnel

  • Karen Peris – acoustic, electric, and nylon string guitar, piano, organ, vocals
  • Don Peris – acoustic, electric, and nylon string guitar, drums, tambourine, organ, lead and backing vocals
  • Mike Bitts – double bass, bass guitar, backing vocals
  • Steve Brown – drums and brushes on "Snow"
  • Album credits

  • Recorded and Mixed by Don Peris
  • Tracks 3, 4, 5, 7, 10 mixed by Todd Vos and Don Peris
  • Greg Calbi: Mastering [Original]
  • Shawn Hatfield: Mastering [Re-Release]
  • Songs

    1Where Does the Time Go?3:33
    2Snow3:47
    3Follow Me3:17

    References

    Birds of My Neighborhood Wikipedia


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