This Bird Has Flown features some of today's hottest artists including Sufjan Stevens, The Fiery Furnaces, Ben Harper, Dar Williams, Mindy Smith, The Donnas and many more. Of the importance of Rubber Soul, Allison Robertson of The Donnas commented, "They got a little more folky, they got a little more funky and more rocking.it was so different, it was like heavy and light at the same time."

The album is produced by Jim Sampas (producer of 2002's Badlands: A Tribute To Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska). On choosing the line-up of artists on the record, Sampas stated, "As we looked toward artists we would approach, we felt they should be kindred spirits, whose gifts for singing and arranging lend themselves to these melodies and themes. Each artist on this album brought their own fascinating interpretations and have extracted new meanings from Rubber Soul."

Originally released in the United Kingdom on December 6th,1965, the George Martin-produced Rubber Soul is considered to be an extraordinarily important album in The Beatles catalogue, the first flowering of the complex songwriting and production techniques of their later releases. The album features the now-ubiquitous songs "Nowhere Man", "Drive My Car'", "Michelle" and "In My Life" among others. It held the #1 position on the British album charts for eight weeks and remained on the chart for a total of forty-two weeks. In 1966, "Michelle" won John Lennon and Paul McCartney the Grammy for Song Of The Year. To date, Rubber Soul has been certified 6x platinum.