Sunday, 18 Oct 2009
One of the many highlights of Andrew Bird’s two-night stint at Milwaukee’s Pabst Theater over the weekend came on Saturday night during the show’s encore. After inviting opener St. Vincent back to the stage for selections from each of their catalogs, they also dug out an acoustic cover of Bob Dylan’s “Oh, Sister” from the album Desire.
This performance was special for a lot of reasons. It surprised the heck out of me as I had completely forgotten Bird covering this tune on his 2007 Soldier On EP. The song happens to be on of my favorites in the Bob Dylan cannon and hearing Annie Clark and Andrew Bird duet on it was simply sublime. There are various videos of them doing this song together in other cities, but below find the track from the aforementioned EP. It’s a worthy addition to your collection as is Dylan’s far to underrated Desire.
October 18th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
I completely agree that the cover of Oh Sister was a highlight, I must say seeing Mr. Bird perform Weather Systems for the finale was what made the evening for me. First time in 5 that he has performed any selection from “Weather Systems” while I have been in the audience. I can’t wait to see how the footage came out.
October 18th, 2009 at 8:43 pm
That’s a great pairing for that cover; wish I had been there for that one…