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Box of Baby Birds

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Currently out of print yet available in digital form...
Box of Baby Birds began as a home recording side-project for multi-instrumentalist Chicago-native Gary Calhoun James, who had previously worked in a diverse range of musical projects from Jazz and Experimental Rock to Country and Folk. James, with help from L.A. transplant Alance Ward on drums, multi-tracked his way through 2006’s self-titled debut in various Chicago apartments and the occasional borrowed studio. The result is a unique and unusual rhythmic backdrop layered with intricate guitars and keyboards upon which beautiful and hushed vocal melodies, harmonies and strings float.
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released 01 January 2006
Gary Calhoun James w/
Alance Ward: Drums, Harmonica, effects and more
Tiffany Kowalski: Violin, voice
Geoff Dolce: Violin track 1
Kyla Chech: violin track 11
Conor Redig: additional guitar track 6
Matt Focht: B.V.'s Track 4

Written, Recorded and Mixed by Gary Calhoun James
Mastered by Griffin Rodriguez
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tags: experimental chamber folk rock rock Austin
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Gary Calhoun James/Box of Baby Birds' Music might be...
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Rock
Chamber Music
Post-Something
Pre-Something
Chicago
60's Pop
Psychedelic
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GCJ/BBB Timeline:
1978-2006 R&D
2006-2009 Chicago Birds Reign of Terror
2009-Present Austin Era less

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Track Name: Weekly Monthly
I'm sticking to my story that's how this story goes, so stop me if you've heard this one before. I'll tell it again and again, again, again until it brings you rapping at my door. It's only one road that a man must walk down, one road which has no end that I can see. Tall buildings lean and sway in the breeze, their shadows are my only company. I know I've tried to fight it, so I'm taking this town. Every single brick that lines my street, and I won't believe, again again again, in anything that's easy to believe. Tell me how does it feel to be so all alone?
Track Name: All This Then
Try to light your fuse, I understand that your confused, turn your eyes down like you turn down all the lights. You said a curse will do, even believed in one or two, can't recall the words, can't conjure up the lines. Oh, she would want it, she would want it, that way.
Track Name: Single Frame
A scene so long, tired, unedited, set in stone. A seven minute life, motion standing still, static framed in silence. You're so far away, the heroes movement staged, how could it be, climbing up the walls, towering above, the magnet tape unbinds me. Stop motion, stop music, stop motion, everything rewind.
Track Name: Forgive Me Forget Me
I've got a roll of film asleep on my window sill and I try to be as still, I try to be as still. As in a silent film, the words she didn't say, the images convey, all the images convey. She will forgive and she will will forget, she will forgive me, forget me. In black and white and shades of gray, I've got a roll of film in a silent way
Track Name: Talusa
It's a morning unlike any morning, it doesn't come easy for you. Clouds push you down, they mimic the planes on the runway, they mimic the clouds going downtown. It doesn't come easy for you, you've gotta try. So what are you waiting for, someone to wish you goodbye? It's an evening like any night. So what are you waiting for, someone to wish you goodbye?
Track Name: Shatterbox
I'll wade down stream, I'll wait till morning. I'll wade down stream, I'll wait till morning. A shatterbox, a china doll, a china shop, a fire drill. A shatterbox, a china doll, a china shop, a fire drill.
Track Name: Painters
By the corner store paint makes it's way on a fence and what's more, I should speak in my own defense. How will you call me, how will you call me, if you don't know my name. We all sit back and watch the paint dry and watch the girls that drive by. We all must know, know a better way. A better end to a better day. How will you call me, how will you call me, if you don't know my name?
Track Name: Wave and Kiss
You're bringing that same old curse with frost bitten lips. It's hard to tell which one is worse. I think the black cat's got my tongue and he's clawing at the verse. You go that way and I will this... send my love with wave and kiss. Leaves have been falling for you, for you. I've been fighting that same old curse with something true. You go that way and I will this... send my love with wave and kiss.
Track Name: Street Parade
There's a holiday, a street parade, you and I are locked away. If the motorbikes like flocks of birds are ruled by nature I couldn't say. Sundays we'd lie in bed and talk about airplanes. Walking up your telephone cries metallic tears and I don't care who it is, or which buildings falling. Cover your road side bed with leaves. I'm killing myself with kindness. Stand and listen to machines that speak our poetry, while a man buries life as death, this is his street side eulogy. Sundays we'd lie in bed and talk about airplanes. Walking up your telephone cries metallic tears and I don't care who it is, or which city is burning. Cover your road side bed with leaves. I'm killing myself with kindness. I don't care who it is or which cities falling. I don't care who it is, or which buildings burning.
Track Name: Dawn Chorus
Almost ready for the dance just one more thing dawn will bring.. Chorus of the morning
Track Name: Suckerchime Slowdance
All your fathers records still spin with amazing grace, and I would have killed for that look on his face, coming home late from his first day of school, his mother would teach him with six golden rulers. Sucker chime slow dance and your still stuck standing in shadows of dance halls and funeral homes