Tumble Bee

"Tumble Bee" is the eighth studio album by Laura Veirs, released in 2011 by the Bella Union label in the UK and Nonesuch Records in the US. Tumble Bee an album of children’s songs old and new, began with the birth of Veirs' son, and became a project with her long-time collaborator, the producer Tucker Martine. Veirs had grown increasingly interested in the history of American children's music, and together she and Martine trawled archived collections of lullabies, clapping songs, skipping songs and playground chants, some long-forgotten, some set down in Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music. The result is a merry collection of covers and re-compositions, from the ballads of Jimmie Rodgers, Woody Guthrie and Peggy Seeger to work songs, field songs and schoolyard ditties of the last century.