“This tune I just wrote in the last two weeks and it just literally came together three days ago,” Andrew Bird said last weekend, introducing “Begging Questions” at the Newport Folk Festival. Given that what follows is a self-proclaimed romantic skeptic “writing love songs with a common refrain,” it begs the question: did Andrew Bird fall in love this summer? Either way, he sure knows how to pen a musical swoon. Watch Bird, Tift Merritt, and his band unveil the star-crossed new cut above.
