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The Nature Of Things 1987

A Flower and A Stone

Outside I hear his caw
Look out and there he's gone
Where is my little friend
Outside and now he's gone

And so the summer comes
And then the summer goes
And still my little bird
And here my little bird
Goes home

Outside the winter calls
Outside I hear his caw
Let him inside the wall
Outside I hear his caw

And so the summer comes
And then the summer goes
And this is what I hear
And this is what he brings
A flower and a stone

Outside I hear his caw
Look out and there he's gone
Wait for my little friend
Out side and there he begs

Caterwaul was based in Phoenix, Arizona, featuring Betsy Martin on vocals and mandolin, Mark Schafer on guitar, Fred Cross on bass and Kevin Pinnt on drums.

Their debut album, The Nature of Things (1987) was released on Lost Arts Records. Caterwaul was interviewed in January 1988 on MTV's "120 Minutes" and the music video for "A Flower and a Stone" from their debut album was played nationally for the first time. The video, directed by David Kane-Ritsch, was notable for its use of photocopied enlargements of frames of film that were subsequently "colored-in" with markers and crayons. The extremely labor-intensive project (essentially a crude type of cel animation) generated significant interest among the music video production community.