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Little Red Bird

Song Category: Misc Release
Times Fully Played: 61
Live Releases: 6
Broadcasts: 4
Date Last Played: 9.1.23 (209 days ago)
Shortest Version: 2:22 (05.15.20)
Longest Version: 3:52 (06.25.10)


Opener Count : 14
Encore Count : 11
A comfort to count the battles won after the war is lost
Composer
Matthews (2009)
Song History
Little Red Bird is a song released on the Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King bonus disc, also titled Little Red Bird. It made its live debut at a Dave & Tim show on 12.10.09 in Las Vegas, the first of three nights. It was also played 12.12.09 (the third night), marking its live release debut on the Live in Las Vegas full show release.

The song made its debut at a full band show in the encore, though played solo by Dave, on 6.25.10 in Cuyahoga Falls. At that show, Dave gave the following introduction providing some background into the writing of the song:

"I was visiting, a few years ago with a friend of mine, I was visiting these little tiny islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean and there was this little, little bird and it had just one leg. But it would come and bounce around underneath the chair, and so you knew it was that bird 'cause I'm sure there's just not a bunch of tiny little red birds with one leg. So then I wrote this song over there a couple years ago or something like that."
Lyrics:
Color Legend
Show Type
Dave & Carlos Varela  (1)
Dave & Tim  (16)
Dave Solo  (9)
DMB  (35)
Personnel
Dave Solo  (42)
Dave and Tim  (17)
Carter Beauford  (2)
Dave Matthews  (2)
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
12.10
12.12
2010
6.25
6.30
7.3
7.16
7.30
8.22
9.5
2011
8.20
9.4
9.18
11.18
11.19
2012
5.26
2013
2014
6.25
6.28
8.30
9.5
2015
1.17
3.16
5.20
5.22
6.2
6.5
6.9
6.13
7.3
7.10
7.14
7.17
7.21
7.25
8.1
8.28
9.5
9.9
9.11
9.13
10.11
10.18
2016
11.13
2017
1.25
2.24
3.20
6.2
6.11
10.3
2018
1.14
6.11
9.19
10.27
2019
2.16
6.17
7.15
2020
2.14
5.15
5.28
2021
10.11
2022
2023
8.25
9.1
2024
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