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Advancing her quest to create music with the greatest integrity, Canada's Allison Crowe releases a new album, "This Little Bird", on October 9, 2006. "Soulful. Alive. Joyous. Grievous. Real, true, music is what I want to make," she says. Eschewing all of the tricks and gimmicks that are today's standard, with this 12-song collection, recorded from Newfoundland to Vancouver Island, Crowe, again, succeeds. Testifying. Visceral. Adding titles of engineer and producer to her vocal, piano and guitar credits, Crowe is joined on most of the album's tracks by therhythm section of Dave Baird (bass) and Laurent Boucher (percussion). Nine new originals map emotional and spiritual territory with fresh sounds, encompassing: the elegiac "Phoenix"; the ramble tamble "Alive and Breathing"; gorgeous songs of love and hope, "Effortless" and "There Is"; the jaunty dark humor of "Skeletons and Spirits"; the redemptive grace of "Now" and "Phoenix"; the raucous celebration of the title track; a joy of simplicity in "Circular Reasoning"; and "Silence", a song that stirs with romance. Acclaimed not only as an exciting songwriter and live performer, but also, as a song interpreter, for freshly definitive takes on Leonard Cohen (Hallelujah), Joni Mitchell (River), Counting Crows (A Murder of One) and others, Allison Crowe delivers a trio of remarkable covers on "This Little Bird". With this new album, the singer-songwriter from the islands gives her singular voice to "A Case of You" (Joni Mitchell's knowing paen to heart and homeland), "Darling Be Home Soon" (John Sebastian's lovely tune of longing) and "I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You" (Ronnie Shannon's song best-known as Aretha Franklin's break-out tune in 1967). "Allison Crowe has a voice to fall in love with," says Record of the Day (the UK's top music trade journal). "This Little Bird" is reaffirmation.