Today we check in with Chicago singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist behind 2007's wonderful Armchair Apocrypha. NAME: Andrew Bird PROGRESS REPORT: Noble Beast out on January 27 (Fat Possum), written and recorded in Nashville ("but also in like five different studios"), including the Wilco loft in Chicago. Chicago's Andrew Bird is sometimes as anachronistic as his music. Eschewing newfangled songwriting aids as notebooks and ...