Strawberry Moon Album Lyrics by Neptune’s Car
Strawberry Moon is the debut album by New Hampshire folk duo Neptune's Car (Holly Hanson and Steve Hayes), released March 3, 2010. It reached #4 on the FOLK-DJ chart, and its song "Lighthouse Keeper" went to #1.
The album was recorded at Signature Sounds in Pomfret, Connecticut, with Mark Thayer, who co-produced, engineered, and mastered it.
Choose a song below to read its lyrics and the story behind it.
At a Glance
Released: March 3, 2010
Studio: Signature Sounds, Pomfret, Connecticut
Co-producer, engineer, and mastering: Mark Thayer
Chart: #4 album on FOLK-DJ; "Lighthouse Keeper" #1 song
Tracks: 12, 42:16 total
Players: Holly Hanson (vocals, guitar, Rhodes piano), Steve Hayes (guitars, vocals), David Eure (violin), Sven Larson (upright bass), Zeke Martin (percussion)
| # | Song | Length | Written by | The story |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Follow This Highway | 3:14 | Holly Hanson | A family road trip into Sedona's red-rock canyons became this driving song, featured in two episodes of NPR's Car Talk. |
| 2 | Strawberry Moon | 5:25 | Holly Hanson | A true story: a mother sings a lullaby to her two young sons on the night train from South Bend, Indiana, through the Berkshires. |
| 3 | Lighthouse Keeper | 3:01 | Holly Hanson | Written to teach Holly's homeschooled sons about women lighthouse keepers, it became the album's #1 FOLK-DJ song. |
| 4 | Full-Moon Night | 2:13 | Holly Hanson | A piece of gold waits to be found in the glacier-carved Lost River Gorge in New Hampshire's White Mountains. |
| 5 | Five-Point Star | 2:56 | Holly Hanson | A wedding song set on an autumn day of apple picking at Gould Hill Farm in Contoocook, New Hampshire. |
| 6 | Sparks | 2:47 | Holly Hanson | One of Holly's first folk songs, about love arriving when you least expect it. |
| 7 | Ocean-Born Mary | 4:56 | Holly Hanson | A New England legend from Henniker, New Hampshire, pieced together from many tellings of the folklore. |
| 8 | Roll with the Tumbleweeds | 3:20 | Holly Hanson | A drifter in the Dakota Badlands is really Holly herself, with her minivan cast as a chestnut mare. |
| 9 | When the Moon Shines on the Chrome | 4:40 | Holly Hanson | A country-style duet drawn from real letters between long-haul truckers and the people waiting at home. |
| 10 | The Charm | 4:01 | Holly Hanson | A sailor shipwrecked in the age of pirates holds on to his sweetheart's good-luck charm. |
| 11 | Diamond Pond | 3:11 | Steve Hayes | Every word is true: a winter weekend in waist-deep snow at a cabin on Diamond Pond in Colebrook, New Hampshire. |
| 12 | Stonewalls and Fences | 2:32 | Holly Hanson | Memories of two New Hampshire family farms, from contra dances to gathering maple sap in Canterbury. |