aaron howard - vox & harp
ghost lee pat - guitar
sarah moskowitz - drum
sami buccella - bass
dennis osorio - typewriter

dear smoke july 14 2013

I have a guitar now! a melancholy love song as the veil thins...

ghost

down bad for u

Half Awake (feat. Mallory Feuer)(Demo)

This is a waltz about Nana, a stray cat that primarily lived in the public garden next door to my backyard. She was 12 when I met her, and she had a clipped ear. That meant that NY animal control fixed her, apparently after her fourth litter. You could see her family all over the block. I fed her basically every day for almost two years, but she would also follow me around when I would weed the garden.

She was a stone cold thug. Preemptive no holds barred street fighter. Now after a few months she would let me rub her belly, but if another outdoor cat came near she would call them out and toss the gauntlet. She actually fatally injured the cat that broke her legs.

Last summer she became gravely wounded from a dangerous scrap with another feral cat, and she was forced to set camp beside an old trash can surrounded by rusty barb wire in my back yard. At least one of her back legs was broken, and she hadn't eaten in a while. I fed her by hand for about a week. She got better, then worse, then not so worse, then she died. I was at work when she poassed and it was so hot out by the time I got home from work to find her, the smell, the whole thing, was awful.

 Frankie and I wanted to bring her to the public garden next door to bury her. That's where she lived for a decade, but she was too far decomposed, it was over 95 degrees out, so she would have to stay in my backyard.

We all loved that cat, she loved us, she loved the neighborhood, and by god she was the wrong chick to mess with.

About this track, Dan did a lot of the arrangement. The slide added so much, and he sort of built the rhythm of the band, which Sarah filled out. The Uke fills that hi middle n a good swinging way.

Performers:
Dan Greenwood: Slide Tenor
Dan Greenwood: Guitar
Dan Greenwood: Washboard
Sarah Moskowitz: Uke
Jeff Burns: Steel String Banjo
Black Wood Pecker: supporting vocals

For more on Lonesome D String Band: @lonesomedstringband
For more on Sarah check out: https://soundcloud.com/sarahmouse  
and also https://soundcloud.com/samisarah

Soon there should be a version with singing sung!

Buried The Cat: Lonesome D-String Band with Moskowitz & Squirrel

amerigo mackeral & the octave doktors

sarah moskowitz
pat cuatico
jeff burns
aaron howard

sea of love

Two Merry Little Crickets

Despise no simple thing of Life,
Not e’en a Roadside flower!
Though floods in torrents oft’ may flow,
There’s a blessing in every shower;
Two merry little crickets,
Once mated in my room;
And every night were singing
E’en through the midnight gloom.
Ah! There was something in their music!
That had a certain spell;
And held me with a power,
To share that music swell.
Gladly my heart did greet them,
For my soul was bowed with grief;
And their simple song were bringing,
To my brain a sweet relief:
Indeed, I found a pleasure,
That is hard for me to tell;
And I really think I miss them,
For I learnt to love them well.
Those chirping little creatures,
Did ope’ my heart and eyes,
To many a precious blessing!
That comes from the Great! All Wise.

J.A. Naar
Kingston, Jamaica, 5th of September, 1917

Illustration by Anne Delaney.

"Two Merry Little Crickets" J.A. Naar (c.19170

more fun on instagram www.instagram.com/sarahthemouse
sometimes honey, sometimes onion. an audio sketchbook. more polished recordings to come soon. i love you. 🌱

i mostly made the art for each song.
thank you Celina Odeh for the glamourous profile photo.

ghost

sarah the mouse