Blues What Am Cat Squirrel

• 1I Feel So Good04:56
• 2What Might Be Your Name05:03
• 3Cat Squirrel04:33
• 4Sugaree Sugaree04:00
• 5Out On a Limb05:09
• 6Heart of Gold04:05
• 7My Baby's Gone04:30
• 8Tell Me Mama03:22
• 9What The Blues Will Do03:27
• 10All She Wants Is Me03:53
• 11You Got Me Dizzy04:00
• 12Baby Please04:15
• 13One Minute05:31
• 14Let The Boogie Rip06:39
• Total Runtime01:03:23

Info for Blues What Am

Behind the name Cat Squirrel lies a group of Iberian blues 'pistolleros' fronted by a pure English blues legend: none other than the immense Mike Vernon. Creator of the Blue Horizon label in the 60s, discoverer/producer/collaborator (take your pick) of some major projects like John Mayall's legendary Bluesbreakers album, Fleetwood Mac's very first album or David Bowie's first recordings, our man has a CV as long as the meanders of the Thames. In short, he knows the blues, and not just a little! And listening to the album 'Blues What Am' confirms this beyond any doubt.

Sometimes the plans of mice and men go astray. It has been nigh on fifteen months since we finished the basic recording for our debut album entitled “Blues What Am”. The finished audio was ´ready to go´ by the end of October 2022. So why the delay?

My plan had always been to search for a well-known and respected distributor that would be sympathetic to our needs at all levels – the French-based DixieFrog label was my first choice. Their immediate reaction was very enthusiastic and so we moved toward the required negotiations – no round pegs in square holes please! Take a not so giant step into early 2023 and we found ourselves in a position to firm up a release schedule. To ensure that there would be sufficient time to plan a comfortable official release date we all agreed to relax whilst working toward the date 6th October 2023. So, you might ask, what have we been doing whilst time has been flying past? Well, you might have noticed that we´ve been busy creating five videos that have been posted online under the headline “Blues Memories” - the current one featuring our version of ´Roll & Tumble Blues´. Well, any moment now there will be a new one – our re-working of Billy Boy Arnold´s Chicago classic ´I Wish You Would´.

Mike Vernon, vocals
Kid Carlos, guitar
Mingo Nalaguer, harmonica
Oriol Fontanals, bass
Pascual Monge, drums

Cat Squirrel
Behind the name of Cat Squirel hides a group of blues iberian «pistoleros» with a pure legend of english blues as a frontman , the enormous Mike Vernon. Founder of the Blue Horizon label in the 60s, he is also known as the producer, talent-spotter and contributor of some major projects like the John Mayall’s mythic album Bluesbreakers, the very own first Fleetwood Mac album or even the firsts records of David Bowie. Our man’s resume is as long as the meanders of the Thames.

This album contains no booklet.