Bear Cat The Exploding Hearts SLIPMAT NOT INCLUDED

SLIPMAT NOT INCLUDED

Like all RK albums before and since

LOVE&JETT and to have a hand in supporting Guitar Wolf's noisy and canonical rise to their rightful place in underground music's highest hall of fame

” — Sampson Starkweather

remembered as one of the central figures of the 1960's yé-yé pop movement

Bear Cat The Exploding Hearts SLIPMAT NOT INCLUDEDOriginally released in 1953, "Bear Cat" by Rufus Thomas is as certifiable a primitive R'n'B smoker that's ever existed. Complete with the inimitable Joe Hill Louis on guitar, the future "Funky Chicken" Thomas gives his male perspective answer record to Big Mama Thornton's "Hound Dog." In the process, the legal powers behind "Hound Dog" writers Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller won a lawsuit claiming "Bear Cat" infringed on the duo's copyright. Ever since