{"id":961,"date":"2012-10-31T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/?p=961"},"modified":"2012-10-31T06:01:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T06:01:00","slug":"video-andrew-bird-on-letterman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/961\/video-andrew-bird-on-letterman\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Andrew Bird on Letterman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TnUU8NQNVfs?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"539\" height=\"294\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Andrew Bird Letterman\" src=\"http:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/andrew-bird-hands-of-glory-stream.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew Bird Letterman\" width=\"305\" height=\"217\" \/>We were just praising the one-microphone live approach to Andrew Bird&#8217;s new LP while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/2012\/10\/andrew-bird-hands-of-glory-stream\/\" target=\"_blank\">streaming the record<\/a> last week, and now here he is on Letterman&#8217;s <em>Late Show<\/em> employing that format for a take on Townes Van Zandt&#8217;s &#8220;If I Needed You.&#8221; Joining Bird on bass\/backup vocals was regular collaborator Alan Hampton, while Tift Merritt &#8212; a notable singer-songwriter in her own right &#8212; played guitar and harmonized on the duet. It&#8217;s hard to imagine a performer not pulling off a timeless tune like this, but extra credit is due to Bird &amp; Co here for reworking Van Zandt&#8217;s vision in their own way while paying reverent homage to the original to boot. If you didn&#8217;t catch the broadcast tonight, watch a replay above &#8212; it&#8217;s definitely a can&#8217;t-miss television moment this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were just praising the one-microphone live approach to Andrew Bird&#8217;s new LP while streaming the record last week, and now here he is on Letterman&#8217;s Late Show employing that format for a take on Townes Van Zandt&#8217;s &#8220;If I Needed You.&#8221; Joining Bird on bass\/backup vocals was regular collaborator Alan Hampton, while Tift Merritt &#8230; <a title=\"Video: Andrew Bird on Letterman\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/961\/video-andrew-bird-on-letterman\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":967,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions\/967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}