Mighty Little Man

As reported over a year ago, Steve Burns, ex-host of the long-running hit kids show Blue’s Clues, realized that singing about mail time and talking to animated salt and pepper shakers wasn’t really a long-term goal of his, struck out to become a rock ‘n roll star. That was in 2002.

His album Songs for Dustmites was recently released, and despite my best efforts to pick it up on the iTMS, I had to actually walk into a Tower Records (shiver) to actually pick up the actual album that contained an actual CD. I know, awkward.

Anyway, it’s really damn good. Check out the audio samples (in Flash) on that site and you’ll most likely agree. Yes, it’s Flaming Lips-ish but this is more than likely attributed to Steven Drozd’s help on more than a few of the songs, and yes, the ones attributed to him helping are most often the better tracks, but not a single one disappoints.

Does it rock hard? Not really. It’s very airy and experimental, but is a joy to listen to.

Meanwhile, in everything’s-animated-except-the-host-land, there’s a new host for Blue’s Clues, and his name’s Joe, apparently Steve’s brother or something. I watched Steve’s farewell episode but am a little hazy on exactly what reason was fed to the kids to accept his departure wherein he goes to college and Blue is even given a tour of the dorm. Incedentally, however, it was time for Blue’s birthday again recently and Steve even made a phoned-in (literally) appearance.

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