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1996 studio album by Andrew Bird

Music of Hair

Studio album by Andrew Bird

Released

1996

Recorded

August 1996

Studio

Lakeside Studio

Length

55:44

Label

Self-released; re-released on Grimsey Records and Wegawam Music

Producer

Andrew Bird

Andrew Bird chronology

Music of Hair
(1996)

Thrills
(1998)

Music of Hair is the debut studio album by the American singer-songwriter Andrew Bird, released in 1996. The tracks featured were written in Bird's early twenties, and the album was released when he was 23. The album features contributions from musicians Colin Bunn, Dave Dieckmann, Kat Eggleston, Al Ehrich, Kevin O'Donnell; and, James "Jimbo" Mathus, Katharine Whalen and Chris Phillips from Squirrel Nut Zippers.

The title of the album is a reference to Galway Kinnell's poem, "Wait". This poem is also used for the lyrics in the song "Wait," on the album Oh! The Grandeur.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Nuthinduan Waltz"	melody: Traditional; lyrics: Andrew Bird	4:58
2.	"Ambivalence Waltz"		2:27
3.	"Oh So Insistent"		3:52
4.	"Rhodéàöh"		4:41
5.	"Two Sisters"	theme: Traditional; music and lyrics: Andrew Bird	4:17
6.	"St. Francis Reel"		3:08
7.	"Ratitat/Peter's Wolf/Oblivious Reel"	"Ratitat" - Traditional	5:17
8.	"The Greenhorn/Exile of Erin/Glasgow Reel"	"Exile of Erin" and "Glasgow Reel" - Traditional	4:15
9.	"Pathetique"	text: Heinrich Heine; music: Andrew Bird	4:07
10.	"Song of Foot"	"Feet of Mad Shak Dance" - Kevin O'Donnell	2:55
11.	"Minor Beatrice"	"Danse Juba" passage - Traditional; string quartet passage - Maurice Ravel	9:58
12.	"Oh So Sad"		5:49

Other appearances

Re-recorded versions of the songs "Nuthinduan Waltz" and "Pathetique" are found on the album Thrills.

References

"Music of Hair, by Andrew Bird". bandcamp. andrew bird.
"Only Solitaire blog: Andrew Bird: Music of Hair". 2 May 2010.
Poets, Academy of American. "Wait by Galway Kinnell - Poems | Academy of American Poets". poets.org. Retrieved 2022-06-26.

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Solo albums	Music of Hair (1996) Weather Systems (2003) Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs (2005) Armchair Apocrypha (2007) Noble Beast (2009) Break It Yourself (2012) Hands of Glory (2012) Things Are Really Great Here, Sort Of... (2014) Echolocations: Canyon (2015) Are You Serious (2016) Echolocations: River (2017) My Finest Work Yet (2019) Hark! (2020) Inside Problems (2022) Outside Problems (2023) Sunday Morning Put-On (2024)
Bowl of Fire albums	Thrills (1998) Oh! The Grandeur (1999) The Swimming Hour (2001)
Live albums	Fingerlings (2002) Fingerlings 2 (2004) Fingerlings 3 (2006) Fingerlings 4 (2010)
EPs	The Ballad of the Red Shoes (2002) Soldier On (2007) Fitz and the Dizzy Spells (2009) I Want to See Pulaski at Night (2013)
Collaborative albums	These 13 (2021)
Related bands	The Handsome Family Squirrel Nut Zippers
See also	Martin Dosh Tift Merritt Jeremy Ylvisaker

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