Cat Hair Ensemble's lyrics & chords

The instrumentation of an old jazz combo, the sinewy arrangements of DC hardcore, and songs that reveal obsessions with work, mortality, and animals. Call it Old World punk. Fans of Django Reinhardt, Fugazi, the Pogues, and Tom Waits will find plenty to enjoy here. Cat Hair Ensemble was formed in early 2005 as an outlet for the musical obsessions of songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Roderick Cumming. The group was originally imagined as a rotating line-up of musicians sympathetic to Mr. Cumming's interest in early jazz, French chanson an...read more