Little Charlie & the Nightcats
Little Charlie & the Nightcats is a California blues band that was founded in 1976 by math student Charlie Baty and Rick Estrin in Berkeley . Current members of the group (as of 2010) are Kid Andersen (guitar), Rick Estrin (harmonica, vocals), Lorenzo Farrell (bass) and J. Hansen (drums). After Charlie Baty's retirement, the band renamed themselves "Rick Estrin & The Nightcats", but stayed true to their style.
The band played essentially an urban Chicago-style blues , enriched with elements of a number of other genres , including early rock 'n' roll , soul , surf , swing , jump blues and western swing .
In 1987 her debut album All the Way Crazy was released , followed in 1988 by Disturbing the Peace . These albums made the band known to a wider audience. They toured across the United States and performed at well-known festivals such as the San Francisco Blues Festival , the Montreal International Jazz Festival, and the Seattle Bumbershoot Festival , to name a few.
Discography (selection)
- All the Way Crazy (1987)
- Disturbing the Peace (1988)
- Captured Live (1991)
- Night Vision (1993)
- Straight up! (1995)
- Shadow of the Blues (1998)
- That's Big (2002)
- Nine Lives (2005)
Individual evidence
- ^ RIP Charlie Baty. In: bluesmatters.com. March 7, 2020, accessed on March 10, 2020 .
- ↑ Rick Estrin and The Night Cats. In: rickestrin.com. Archived from the original on January 31, 2013 ; accessed on February 18, 2019 .
- ↑ Vladimir, Bogdanov. All Music Guide to the Blues , Backbeat Books, Page 343, ISBN 0879307366
