Stretch For Miles

Stretch for Miles is a Kitty Concert written by Ai-Ai Paulden and Bush Longtail in May 2002. The Kitty Concert recorded the song on their experimental band Straw House Bunch's 2006 debut album, Left Foot Last.

Appearances

 * Left Foot Last by Straw House Bunch (2006)

Personnel

 * Ai-Ai Paulden- lead vocals, Wurlitzer electric piano
 * Bush Longtail- backup vocals, acoustic guitar
 * Kitty Concert- acoustic guitar
 * Zak Zimmer- slide guitar
 * Looney Lion- drums
 * Xifan Plates- lute

Overview
Sometime in May 2002, Kitty purportedly told Ai-Ai and Bush (along with Looney, Dee, Zak for their respective instruments) to "quit writing lyrics" because they were "garbage" and focus on writing piano music. Ai-Ai did not believe all of Kitty's lyrics were that good and needed work, so he and Bush teamed up to write a song about their frustrations. Kitty's ego inspired the title after Bush said that it stretched for miles. Kitty did not know for a few years that the song was written about him.

Instrumentally, this song is interesting, as not only does Zak play the slide guitar rather than standard, but Bush plays acoustic guitar. Xifan Plates plays the lute and Little-Kitty Furball and Pawprint Elec are absent from the album version. However, they do ring various bells in the demo, which does not feature Plates's lute.