{"id":13270,"date":"2012-10-31T08:00:37","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T16:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=13270"},"modified":"2012-10-31T08:00:37","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T16:00:37","slug":"watch-andrew-bird-and-tift-merritt-cover-townes-van-zandt-on-letterman-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-10\/watch-andrew-bird-and-tift-merritt-cover-townes-van-zandt-on-letterman-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Andrew Bird and Tift Merritt Cover Townes Van Zandt on Letterman Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have a love\/meh relationship with <strong>Andrew Bird&#8217;s<\/strong> music.\u00a0 He has recorded one of our all-time favorite covers (listen at bottom to his cover of the<strong> Handsome Family&#8217;s <em>Don&#8217;t Be Scared<\/em><\/strong>), and we&#8217;ve loved several of his albums.\u00a0 But the whistlin&#8217;-and-loopin&#8217; thing wore us out completely. \u00a0 While we never denied Bird&#8217;s multiple talents, so much of it seemed so insular and tedious for so long.\u00a0 But we could be wrong.\u00a0 Exhibit A for Bird&#8217;s case can be found below.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, with the great David Letterman once again audience-less, <strong>Andrew Bird<\/strong> and <strong>Tift Merritt<\/strong> (one of our favorite femme singer-songwriters) stepped up to the microphone as replacement for the originally scheduled <strong>David Byrne<\/strong> and <strong>St. Vincent<\/strong>.\u00a0 Check out below their sterling cover of <strong>Townes Van Zandt&#8217;s<\/strong> day-after apropos, <em><strong>If I Needed You<\/strong><\/em>. The song appears on Bird&#8217;s most recent album, <strong>Hands of Glory<\/strong>.\u00a0 We&#8217;re going to have to get our hands on that one.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TnUU8NQNVfs&#038;feature=em-uploademail-new<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Andrew Bird - Don&#039;t Be Scared (Studio version)\" width=\"635\" height=\"476\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SZSKlnSGriA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a love\/meh relationship with Andrew Bird&#8217;s music.\u00a0 He has recorded one of our all-time favorite covers (listen at bottom to his cover of the Handsome Family&#8217;s Don&#8217;t Be Scared), and we&#8217;ve loved several of his albums.\u00a0 But the whistlin&#8217;-and-loopin&#8217; thing wore us out completely. \u00a0 While we never denied Bird&#8217;s multiple talents, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}