Record Routine: Brown Bird creates bittersweet album after loss of band member
By Katie Lang | Apr. 28, 2015For an artist, releasing an album is typically a joyful experience, when fans can finally listen to the months, or even years, of work they’ve put in to create that record. For Brown Bird, however, the release of their latest album Axis Mundi is bittersweet. David Lamb, half of the eclectic folk duo, lost his battle with leukemia in April of 2014, and his wife and music partner MorganEve Swain was left to finish the project on her own. All of the songs except one, “Tortured Boy,” were either written by Lamb shortly after his diagnosis or during his initial recovery. Swain said that sifting through those songs was incredibly difficult for her, but with the help of her brother, producer Spencer Swain, she was able to pull together one final tribute to Brown Bird and her late husband.
