“Little Bird of Heaven” was written by Martha Scanlan and recorded by the Reeltime Travelers, an old-time string band that came together in Johnson City, Tennessee. The song appeared on a recording released in 2002.
The song takes a small bird as its central image and finds in it a lesson about life — the worth of fragile, fleeting things, and the importance of cherishing what little we are given.
The Reeltime Travelers played in the old-time tradition, with its rougher, older textures behind the bluegrass mainstream.
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