Deluxe CD package includes hardcover binding, slipcase and 28-page booklet. Piano ballads and wheezing cabaret oddities that melt into the midnight fog like bummed cigarettes and cut-rate bourbon. Paul Mark’s tenth CD release. Recorded in New York City and mixed in Memphis TN. "Stowaways" is a sentimental world-gone-mad portfolio flaunting influences as far afield as Weimar caberet, tin pan alley and after-hours combo jazz. Piano and acoustic bass playing sit front and center along with Mark's signature saloon-weary vocals. A Salvation Army-ready string section lends street corner polish to the affair. Like the soundtrack from a forgotten noir masterpiece. Highlights includes originals "How Do the Blind Become So Famous?", "Stowaways", and "Once Upon a Weekend". As well as a cover the Brecht/Weill opus "Ballad of Mack the Knife". The weepy set closer Animal Cruelty is posed to be an ASPCA fav for years to come. Roots rock barroom revelations.