<a href="http://www.musicmojo.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/redbird.jpg"><img src="http://www.musicmojo.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/redbird.jpg" alt="" title="redbird" width="170" height="170" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-30" /></a>I fired up a <a href="http://www.padora.com/">Pandora</a> station over the weekend and seeded it with <a href="http://www.justintownesearle.com/">Justin Townes Earle</a>. For the first time since I can recall Pandora seemed to really hit a bunch of songs that I liked (but knew) all in a row.  Some John Prine, Avett Bros even an old Steve Earle song that I treasure "Guitar Town". Next up was a cover song that I knew immediately, a striking mournful version of REM's "You Are the Everything". I walked over to the computer to see that this was buy a band I'd never heard of called "Redbird". 

Doing what normal Googlers do I typed "you are the everything redbird" into Google and the first hit that I see is from my friend Heather's MP3 blog "Fuel/Friends". Her post is entitled "<a href="http://fuelfriends.blogspot.com/2006/06/melodic-perfection-you-are-everything.html">Melodic Perfection</a>"

<blockquote>'You Are The Everything' is a collection of pure childhood memories, pristine and sad, confused and filled with hope all at once. I know of no other song that preserves so pitch-perfectly what it feels like to be a kid asleep in the backseat of your parents' car, secure with the "peace in absolutes," watching the stars through the windows</blockquote>

So now I have it all - music discover + personal recommendation. Next step - iTunes to purchase. Isn't that how the industry is supposed to work? Yes, yes it is. 

p.s. A little more research tells me that Redbird is actually Kris Delmhorst, Jeffrey Foucault and Peter Mulvery. Now my mind is blown with musical connections . . 

Jeffrey Foucault - Northbound 35
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Redbird - White Freightliner Blues 
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I have to stop . . . .
