SXSW 2009 Session Recap – The Wooden Birds
Our SXSW session with The Wooden Birds was the only performance of the week that we booked without hearing a note of music upfront. This, after all, is the new project of Andrew Kenny from American Analog Set. We’ve always been fans of AmAnSet and so when we saw he had a new band and was releasing the upcoming album Magnolia on Barsuk stateside and on the Morr Music label overseas, it was an instant no-brainer.
Andrew is a native Texan, but had spent about six years living in Brooklyn before relocating to Austin after last year’s SXSW festival. After AmAnSet split, he spent some time playing with Ola Podrida, Her Space Holiday, and even Broken Social Scene. The Wooden Birds was born with the help of his bandmate in Ola Podrida, David Wingo (who does not appear in this performance) after heading back to Texas.
In the interview portion, Andrew notes that the songs he ultimately chose for the album were ones that could be performed by a 5-piece band in a live setting. Some of the songs on Magnolia are older than others. They share a common thread in that they all tend to be fairly percussive and vocal heavy, sharing some lovely harmonies between Andrew and Leslie Sisson. Rounding out the band are Chris Michaels (who co-produced the album), Matthew Frank, and Michael Bell (from Lymbic System).
Enjoy this preview of Magnolia and pick it up when it hits stores on May 12th from Barsuk Records.
Tracklisting
Sugar
The Other One
Believe In Love
Interview
Seven Seventeen
Anna Paula
The Wooden Birds – Sugar (Live On WOXY.com / New-Unreleased)
The Wooden Birds – The Other One (Live On WOXY.com / New-Unreleased)
The Wooden Birds – Believe In Love (Live On WOXY.com / New-Unreleased)
The Wooden Birds – Seven Seventeen (Live ON WOXY.com / New-Unreleased)
The Wooden Birds – Anna Paula (Live On WOXY.com / New-Unreleased)
The Wooden Birds – Live On WOXY.com- SXSW 2009 (full session download)
April 13th, 2009 at 1:41 am
[...] the Wooden Birds – Anna Paula (Live on Woxy) (listen to the whole Woxy session) [...]
April 15th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
[...] next week via Barsuk. You can also catch a sweet live performance by the band that was just posted over on the Woxy blog. If you missed these guys during SXSW, you’ll have to wait until July 4th when [...]
April 19th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
is there a podcast of the interview as well?
April 21st, 2009 at 9:39 am
It does, and I just added it to the post…..
May 13th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
[...] the Wooden Birds – Anna Paula (Live on Woxy) (listen to the whole Woxy session) [...]
May 16th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
[...] (The Wooden Birds via Woxy) [...]