Birds and Stars

Rodriguez said by his own account that it was written in a flash, with guitar, pen, pad and a candlelit ethereal setting, two weeks before the studio; the article does not state a formal credit line. American Songwriter premiered it on June 21, 2013, ahead of the September release, describing co-ed harmonies, banjo and fiddle. Folk Alley's Ruehl reads it as about mystery and intrigue from nature to love, places where life's formative elements meet. A Folk Alley session was recorded in August 2013 at the Fayetteville Roots Festival, without Law, and Mountain Stage, recorded at the Culture Center Theater in Charleston, West Virginia and published on June 18, 2014, opened its set with it. A live version is on Sands of Now.

Setlist.fm lists 19 plays, fifth most among their songs behind "Remembering a Beginning" (27), "Grace of a Woman" and "Rogue River" (24 each) and "The Pasture" (20). We found no covers or samples, and cannot say whether our upload is the studio or a live version.