In a career that has taken him from the Beautiful South with Paul Heaton in the late 1980s to his critically-acclaimed side project Homespun, Dave Rotheray's name has always been synonymous with music that mixes the melancholy with dry humor to great effect. On The Life Of Birds, Rotheray has succeeded in crafting an album with some of the best lyrics and most beautiful music of his career. It includes guest performances by some of the most exciting artists on the UK Folk scene: Eliza Carthy, Jim Causley, Kathryn Williams, Bella Hardy, Alasdair Roberts and more.