I love this old tune, and this rendition is pretty interesting.  If you want to hear another completely different take on it, check out Nikki Talley's recent live version of it...

https://soundcloud.com/nikki_talley/01-cuckoo

I love this song, never heard this incarnation though, will have to give it a listen sometimes. I like Dylan and Hersch's version as well as the old school original versions too judging from the comments though this one does not do the song justice. Someday I may hear it I reckon.

This cut adds little to the gazillion-strong canon of recordings of this old folk chestnut.  It just BEGS the question "Why?"  Way yawn.

Be Quiet, Tanyas!

 TerryS wrote: 
Good comment - still, somebody's in some serious pain here.

This is Cool
Also, one of my music friends played this band for me and it reminded me of those other girls I like.

This is one of those weird songs where the whole is better than the sum of it's parts.

 aquadonia wrote: 
I agree.

I love The Be Good Tanyas, and will never get tired of hearing them.

this bites. meh.

such a let down after that fun Phish song.

Having heard a few bad covers of this song, this one is nowhere near the worst, and is an interesting interpretation...

Some nice background on this historical song:

http://theanthologyofamericanfolkmusic.blogspot.com/2010/05/coo-coo-bird-clarence-ashley.html

No apologies, I like it

This sucks. URGH!!

she sounds like she's on the run or something.
aweful ;-(

 cayenne wrote: 
...part of the addictive nature of RP is reading comments like this once in a while
(and i also agree, and also like it!)

They have class..I like the violin - reminds me of Warren Ellis from The Proposition (Nick Cave) :-)

I'm somehow stuck between hating and liking this.

Somebody else made the comment once that the lead singer of the Tanyas sings like she's sitting on a washing machine, and I agree, but I like it.

 Shesdifferent wrote: 

Put a vomitsmiley in a message and you make me want to argue with you.  Hmm...  I can't really make claims about how wonderful the song is, so I'm reduced to correcting your spelling.  As a denizen of the south, its "caterwaul" and "hoe-down". 

So there <sniff>.

Turning off RP now.... after that last banjo how down song, you torture me all the more with these catter wallers!

Love this band.  Their record Chinatown is outstanding.  Hope to hear more on RP soon.

That's part of TBGT's style. It's not that they're out of tune; it's just a relaxed, "nonperfect" vibe.

 Ntropy wrote:

 

bindi wrote:I have not heard Hem's version. The Tarbox Ramblers arrange it differently, but I like it as well. I really dig the Tanyas' version of this. This is what made me by the CD.

I prefer Hem's version

Great blending of the vocals with the music, especially the strings. A mosaic.

Gee...is EVERY instrument on this track out of tune? Sharp, flat...all over! :puke: