Brown Bird was a band from Warren, Rhode Island, formed in 2003 as a solo project by David Lamb. In their final incarnation, the band was the duo of Lamb and his wife MorganEve Swain. The band disbanded in 2014 following Lamb's death from leukemia.
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History
Lamb formed Brown Bird in 2003 in Seattle, Washington but moved soon thereafter to Portland, Maine. The line-up soon included Jerusha Robinson on cello and her husband Jeremy Robinson on multiple instruments. The Robinsons left the group in 2009, leaving Lamb, MorganEve Swain on fiddle, and Mike Samos on lap steel guitar and dobro in the line-up.
In 2010, with the departure of Samos, the band had become a duo.
Brown Bird played the Newport Folk Festival for the first time in 2011 and were then currently based in Providence, Rhode Island. They have toured with The Devil Makes Three.
Brown Bird went on hiatus in early 2013 after David Lamb was diagnosed with leukemia. Lamb died from the disease on April 5, 2014.
In July 2017, MorganEve Swain went on to release work with her new band, The Huntress and Holder of Hands.
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Musical style
Brown Bird is influenced by American folk music, Gypsy music, and Bluegrass. According to Aimsel Ponti of the Portland Press Herald "[t]heir sound is one that lives on the darker side of American folk, ensconced in Eastern European roots music."
Works
- tautology (2007)
- such unrest (Spring 2007)
- Bottom of the Sea (2008)
- The Devil Dancing (2009)
- The Sound of Ghosts (EP, March 2011)
- Salt for Salt (October 2011)
- Fits of Reason (April 2013)
- The Teeth of Sea and Beasts - The Poetry of Brown Bird (Book, April 2014)
- The Brown Bird Christmas Album (November 2014)
- Axis Mundi (April 2015)
References
Further reading
- "Concert celebrates legacy of Brown Bird's Dave Lamb." Boston Globe. James Reed, April 10, 2014.
External links
- Official website
- MorganEve Swain's Facebook post announcing David Lamb's death on April 5, 2014
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