Love's Small Song Explained

Love's Small Song
Type:	studio
Artist:	Baby Dee
Cover:	Love's Small Song cover.jpg
Released:	2002
Recorded:	2001, Cleveland, OH
Genre:	Indie folk, baroque pop, experimental rock
Length:	Disc 1: 43:13 Disc 2: 55:28
Label:	Durtro
Producer:	Baby Dee
Prev Title:	Little Window
Prev Year:	2001
Next Title:	Safe Inside the Day
Next Year:	2008

Love's Small Song is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Baby Dee. The album was released in 2002 and consisted of two discs. The first disc contains songs composed and performed by Dee,^[1] while the second disc contains a singular 55-minute sound collage of birdsongs, specifically robins' songs. All recordings used were recorded in the backyard of Dee's mother's home in Cleveland.^[2]

Love's Small Song is currently out of print as a lone album. The first disc has been compiled in its entirety with Little Window and Made for Love as the 2-CD set The Robin's Tiny Throat, released by Durtro Jnana in 2007.^[1] The second disc is available as The Robins' Song, released by Drag City in 2008.^[2]

Track listing

All songs composed by Baby Dee.

Disc 1:

1. "The Moon and the Morning Star" – 3:52
2. "So Bad" – 3:37
3. "Look What the Wind Blew In" – 3:01
4. "When I Get Home" – 5:08
5. "My Heart's Come Home" – 4:02
6. "Like Morning All Day Long" – 2:55
7. "Small Wonder" – 3:57
8. "Half a Chance" – 5:29
9. "My Love Has Made a Fool of Me" – 5:24
10. "April Day" – 5:48

Disc 2:

1. "Untitled" – 55:28

Personnel

• Baby Dee – vocals, piano, harp, accordion, bird calls

Influence

• John Darnielle, frontman of The Mountain Goats, has called Love's Small Song one of his favorite albums.^[3]
• "So Bad" was covered by Shearwater on their 2008 EP The Snow Leopard.

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Robin's Tiny Throat . babydee.org . 2011 . April 29, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110727060508/http://www.babydee.org/albums/the-robins-tiny-throat/ . July 27, 2011 .
2. Web site: The Robins' Song . babydee.org . 2011 . April 29, 2011.
3. Web site: Darnielle . John . Mountain Goats: Ten Records That Render Life Bearable... . Pitchfork . August 1, 2002 . April 29, 2011.