2005's The Mysterious Production of Eggs, Bird's best and most recent disc, features a wealth of ghostly acoustic-guitar picking as well as some surprisingly impressive whistling. In March, he'll release Armchair Apocrypha, Bird's debut for the blues label Fat Possum (he previously recorded for Ani DiFranco's Righteous Babe imprint). So expect a preview of some of the new material, which should also show off Bird's savvy with live loops and digital-delay technology.