Ghost Ranch by son of the velvet rat
On September 9th, 2022 at the Harrison House in Joshua Tree, Georg and Heike debuted a collection of songs that would later comprise Son of Velvet Rat’s Ghost Ranch studio album. A sacred space to present these new pieces, stripped-down to their most essential elements: two voices; one gruff and anchoring baritone, the other lifting in weathered hope, over six strings danced upon by Georg’s possessed spider-fingers, every note plucked with intention. A bare-boned outpouring, reverberating through the House like Midnight Mass in a rare church brave enough to explore the complexities of love.
That night, which ended with a refreshing baptismal monsoon as we walked out to our cars, would have to be preserved in the amber of memory until Georg and Heike would properly document the pieces at Gar Robertson’s Red Barn Studio in Morongo Valley the following spring ’23, before finishing the album in Austria.
Tracklist
| 1. | Bewildering Black and White Moments Captured on Trail Cams | 4:09 |
| 2. | Are The Angels Pretty? | 4:07 |
| 3. | Beautiful Day | 4:10 |
| 4. | Deeper Shade of Blue | 3:23 |
| 5. | The Golden Gate | 3:10 |
| 6. | Rosary | 4:00 |
| 7. | Southbound Plane | 3:32 |
| 8. | New Frontier | 2:32 |
| 9. | Kindness of the Moon | 5:42 |
| 10. | The Waterlily and the Dragonfly | 2:56 |
| 11. | Cicadas | 1:22 |
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"Grizzled, aching and enigmatically poetic Folk Rock!”—THE ROCKING MAGPIE
"There’s substance, originality, & cleverness at work here. I admire how these people take something that already exists traditionally & reinterpret it with their own ingredients to create something truly effective that resonates. This record is straight whiskey. Tom Waits would be proud."—AMERICANA HIGHWAYS