DBT #174 Cats

 

Inspired by my Mr. Hobbes laying his 28 pound body on my laptop, I decided to venture into songs about Cats.  I found so many and completely enjoyed the journey into my vinyls and my wife came up with some great suggestions, so I decided to share as many as I had in my playlist.  Truly I know I'm leaving a few back in the archive room that I haven't imported.  So I built this table from my export of the playlist and added links to a YouTube video or audio; and links in the Artist column takes you to a Bandcamp page where you can buy it for your library.  You don't need to click on each if you don't want to because following this table is a one Click YouTube playlist.

Name - You Tube Video	Artist - Bandcamp Song	Album
Black Cat	Plume Giant	Plume Giant EP
Cat and the Fiddle	The Gothard Sisters	It's the Little Things
Fat Cat	The Whispering Tree	Invisible Forces
I'm The Cat	Jackson Browne	Looking East
Matisse the Cat	Jesse Cook	Frontiers
Shrödinger's Cat	Stephen Ross	The Alchemists
3rd Dead Cat	Chuck Brodsky	Last Of The Old Time
This Cat's in the Doghouse	Rosie Flores	The Americana Agency Sampler 2011
The Year of the Cat	Al Stewart	The Year of the Cat
Patriotism Killed the Cat	Rainbow Girls	While We Wait
10 The Cat - Etain McKinney's Polka	Liz Carroll and Jake Charron	Half Day Road
Cheshire Cat Moon	Brenna Larson	Like Fine Wine
Tom Cat Blues	The New Lost City Ramblers	Mike Seeger, Tom Paley, John Cohen
Dead Cat on the Line	Charlie Parr	Rooster
Black Cat Moan	Don Nix	Hobos, Heroes and Street Corner Clowns
The Cat-Song	Laura Nyro	Season's of Light... Laura Nyro in Concert
The Cat and Rat	Shel Silverstein	Songs & Stories
Alley Cat	Chet Atkins	The Best of Chet Atkins Vol. 2
Yellow Cat	John Denver	Rhymes & Reasons
Mean Eyed Cat	Johnny Cash	Story of a Broken Heart
Rudy's Big Adventure	Cindy Mangsen	Cat Tales
Hey Mr. Tangerine Man	Dave Zeman	Gypsy Soul
Walkin' My Cat Named Dog	Norma Tanega	Walkin' My Cat Named Dog
Our House	Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young	Déjà Vu
Cats And Dogs	The Head And The Heart	The Head And The Heart
Molly Malone... The Cat's Perspective	Marc Gunn	Confessions of a Celtic Music Junkie
Shout You Cats	Maria Muldaur	Garden Of Joy (Good Time Music For Hard Times)
Bitterblue	Cat Stevens	Cat Stevens

To listen to all, click HERE or pick and choose below.

UPDATE May 16th.... For Christine Kane's birthday I noted I did NOT Include the infamous "Four Legs Good and Two Legs Bad" in the playlist, it belongs here:

Here if the You Tube is more that just an audio file, I'll put the videos in here unless I want to say something (and you know I do).

This one is so good to walk to, the studio version has a great percussion track but the audience helps.

Oh this is a fun video:

Heroe's of 80's channel.. Ha, I beg to differ the song was released in 1976.  The 80's helped kill good music. Ha.

Yep lots of cat killing in this playlist.

While I'm adding the audio only videos to the playlist, here's one I don't want you to miss.  It was a song I cover and now call it my Hobbes song.  UPDATE Apr. 27th Our Hobbes died way to early after he lost SEVEN pounds in less than two months.  Here's the New Lost City Ramblers song as a toast and farewell to my best of buddies.

And of course I had recorded it for Hobbes's orange old cat buddy Toby who slept through the recording

Here are the words

Another great White Wall recording.

Found this with a Discog search, great 1973 album

Another vinyl score and I spent a little time importing a few other Laura Nyro's songs and reading her Wiki page.  Wow I have a bigger appreciation for her and that she died way too early.  PLUS you get a fan video with a whole bunch of cat pictures. (Of course as I'm typing Lady Olivia is sitting next to me and sometimes staring at me.)

Nope it's not Chet but it is very close to what I imported for an 1963 vinyl.

When I found this song on Rhymes & Reasons I was so surprised that the record only had three songs for John and the arrangements were so not what he was known for.  I guess the first ever released record still had to have two awesome songs from him.

So I was excited to import some old Sun recording of Johnny when I saw this.  Funny the cat shows up in the first and last verse.

And did not see I also had a reissue of the song in his American Recording Series... hard to beat the Tennessee Three though.

This is such a great story about Rudy the cat, the studio version is easier to understand but it's fun to hear the audience laugh:

Of course I had to include my parody for Toby.

My wife reminded my that the recent No Depression magazine had an article about Norma Tanega, and she loved her back when she was a teenager.  Norma is also famous for being the theme song for What we do in the Shadows tv show, "Your Dead"

Lori also contributed "Our House" because it does have two cats in the yard, here's a great live video.

Almost overlooked this one, I just love the sound this band puts out.

Marc Gunn has a whole cd of Irish songs rephrased for cats, and I picked this one... all of them are awesome.  Poor Molly died after her nine lives.

The Maria Muldaur cd this one is just one of the best jug band blues you'll find. 

Ok last song is a nod Kim, Lori's (my wife) sister.. she insisted I need a CAT Steven's.  Ok this one is just a little bitter, and he's waiting... yep that's like living with a cat.

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