"All of This and Nothing" is a series of weekly posts, each about one song I really love, by an artist I haven't featured in the previous This Year, Portions For Foxes, or Better Things series. It alternates between Obscure and Famous songs; feel free to argue either way if you're so inclined. See the introduction for more.
Continuing the swing back and forth - as I noted last week, often from '80s songs reasonably well-known in their day to Aughts songs that are somewhat...less popular. This time out I have a song from 2009 by a band called Old Canes.
This is Little Bird Courage - I don't know much about it, or the band. But I liked it then, I still like it, in all of its rattly, clangy glory.
As far as I can tell, Old Canes was a sidebar band - the main guy, Christopher Crisci, had a main band, Appleseed Cast, which I don't think I've ever heard - and Old Canes only had two records in the Aughts. Their website is defunct, so I assume the band is as well.
This is another song with obscure lyrics - a metaphor for something, or more than one something. The title implies a lot of it: the song is about how the world is dark and dangerous, but there is hope.
And when I'm thirsty
You are the fountain
In the face of danger
I am unafraid
The tone is almost religious, but there's no specific dogma - Crisci may have meant it to be in some particular tradition, but it doesn't come across that way to me. So it comes across as inspiring, no matter what you believe or don't believe - we can all rely on a little bird to give us courage.
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