Can You Hear the Crickets? is the 7th song on Penchant of Lettuce’s debut album, Arable Sunrise. It was written by Huckleberry Greet and performed by the whole band. The song features Huckleberry on guitar, Harmony on vocals, and Willow on backup vocals and percussion. 

The song is a gentle lullaby based on the band’s life growing up on the farm. The soft, lilting voices of Harmony and Willow allude to the stories of their adolescent adventures in the fields surrounding their home. Huckleberry in particular had very fond memories of him and his first love walking through the fields in silence just listening to the sounds of nature. Like most young lovers they eventually went their separate ways, but the summer they enjoyed together was immortalised in the lyrics of the song. 

The final mix also needed some sound effects of crickets and back in the 1960s there was only one way possible. You had to go out and record them for yourself. The studio manager, James O’ Dougal, who later married Harmony, was tasked with collecting the sounds for the track. He spent an entire night camping out with a tent full of recording equipment to capture the insect’s sound. Thankfully his hard work paid off as the sounds he captured were what helped the song to become a hit with their listening audience.