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Americana Pie: Karen + The Sorrows / Clare Burson / The Library

Brooklyn alt-country band Karen & the Sorrows are thrilled to be celebrating the release of their debut EP Ocean-Born Mary at this month's Americana Pie.

Ocean-Born Mary centers around a misremembered ghost story from band member Elana Redfield’s childhood in New Hampshire. Mary saved the lives of her shipmates the day she was born by inspiring a pirate captain to pity—instead of his original plan to slaughter everyone aboard. Eighteen years later that pirate came to Henniker, New Hampshire to claim Mary as his wife. But he got a bit more than he bargained for when she refused to let him return to sea and instead sealed him into the walls of the home they both haunt today. 

“I’d been writing a lot of songs about letting go,” explains the band’s singer-songwriter Karen Pittelman. “When Elana told me that story, I knew it was time to visit the other side and write an ode to obsessive possession instead.” The band has been performing the EP’s four inter-connected songs as one piece since they debuted it in December at Dixon Place. With the help of engineer Charles Burst at Seaside Lounge, they decided to build the entire EP from one long, live take to capture that energy and flow.

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