Bird By Snow is Fletcher Tucker, gifted multi-instrumentalist and home-taper from Northern California. By way of todays lexicon one might categorize Bird By Snow as Lo-fi Indie (or maybe Freak-folk), but more poetic and broadminded record stores may well create sections exclussively for this band. White plastic cards reading "Trancendental Beach-Grunge," or maybe "Psychic Mountain-Dub" or perhaps even "Song-Bread for the Starving Children of the Zeitgeist." Tucker himself, however, prefers to label his music simply as "What I believe in," and sometimes as the less pretentious "Songs by Dude."

In 2005 Gnome Life Records released the bands first LP "Antlers and the Sun and All the Things That Grow Old and Pass Away" on limited edition, transparent-red vinyl. In 2006 Gnome Life pressed Bird By Snow's first single, "Industrial Collapse," followed shortly after by a second LP, "Sky," Fletcher's most compositionally, and emotionally dense work to date. "Sky" has been decorated with critical acclaim for its fine song-craft, and genre bending (referenced above)... "Fleshed out with field recordings and more real, desolate charm than ever before, this is a record of great intrinsic worth, and manages to do something new and consistent within a genre largely held together by image and one-trick skills. Incredible and very worthwhile." [Dusted Magazine]

Bird By Snow records illuminate wooly-sound-worlds, infinite song-scapes, and fictional universes expanding in your ears. But in concert Bird By Snow is rarely more than one man, with one instrument (guitar, banjo, autoharp, etc.), engaged in spontaneous moments of ecstatic giving. Present with you in the world, singing some songs he made up!

Bird By Snow has been performing and recording since 2001. Traveling the U.S. on several tours and occasioning to share the stage with many lovely people along the way... Julie Doiron, the Microphones / Mt. Eerie, Josephine Foster, Alasdair Roberts, Little Wings, Karl Blau and many more. In Spring 2007 Tucker took flight on his first European tour, with concerts in Iceland, the UK, France, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway and Denmark! Finding his wings still needed a good stretch Bird By Snow gathered with his other Gnome Life friends, and went right back to Europe in November 2007, performing in Iceland, Spain, Norway and Sweden, touring this time in support of the European CD release of "Sky," out now, on the lovely Swedish label Kning Disk.

For more stuff about Bird By Snow please visit this myspace.com/birdbysnow, and the official website, Fletcher handles his own booking in most of the world, he can be contacted here: fletcher(at)birdbysnow(dot)com, please contact Born Music, for booking in Spain and Portugal.