This Country Music Legend Once Set Big Bird From 'Sesame Street' on Fire

Big Bird barely made it out of the 1980s in one piece. Not only was Sesame Street' s biggest star in talks to ride aboard the ...
Whiskey Riff

Waylon Jennings Once Accidentally Lit Big Bird On Fire While Filming The 1985 Sesame Street Film, ‘Follow That Bird’

Classic Waylon... The country icon has so many iconic songs, and stories, to his name, and recently, we got to hear some brand new Waylon music on the album Songbird, which is a tracklist full of ...
American Songwriter

Remember When Waylon Jennings Sang With Big Bird?

It’s not every day that you see a country music legend singing with a muppet, but that’s exactly what happened when Waylon Jennings picked up a hitchhiking Big Bird in the debut Seasame Street feature ...
Stereogum

Daneshevskaya – “Big Bird”

Daneshevskaya, the Brooklyn-based project of Anna Beckerman, is announcing her debut album for Winspear titled Long Is The Tunnel. Out in November, Long Is The Tunnel is co-produced by Ruben Radlauer ...
The Fader

Daneshevskaya’s “Big Bird” offers up a rare sighting

Last time we heard from Daneshevskaya a couple of years ago she was preparing to release her Bury Your Horses EP by sharing a song partly inspired by the Paranormal Activity horror franchise. Today ...
American Songwriter

Brandi Carlile Visits Sesame Street to Sing About Nature with Big Bird and Snuffleupagus

All you Brandi Carlile fans with little ones at home—and maybe those who don’t—tune in to Sesame Street for a chance to see her sing a song about nature with Big Bird and Mr. Snuffleupagus. The ...
Hartford Courant

Man behind Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch featured in CT gallery’s touching tribute

Woodstock may be the name of the bird in the “Peanuts” comic strip, but the big bird in Woodstock, Connecticut is Caroll Spinney. Spinney was the gentle, expressive puppeteer who embodied Big Bird on ...