*** LP ： USA 1974 / Eastbound Records / EB 9008 ***
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B+ / A / SPSE
ジャケット：四隅スレ。四辺はきれいですが上辺開口部に5cmほどの割れ。表裏は薄シミ、薄汚れが見られます。中面は微細な薄スレちらほらできれいです。
ディスク：レーベルは片面のみ微細なヒゲがほんの少し。盤面はほとんど使用感のない美品です。
内袋は新しい穴開きタイプが付属します。

デトロイト生まれのボブ・キャットフィッシュ・ホッジ、74年5作目「恐竜と野良猫」。
ブルースに根差しながらも幅広い音楽性を見せる素晴らしい内容。スワンプ系シンガーソングライター作品の快作です。
味わい深いヴォーカルに、うなるスライドギターと分厚いホーンセクション、これだけで降参してしまう人も多いことでしょう。
基本は自作でカヴァーが1曲。これが驚きのジャック・ブルースで"Songs for a Tailor"の冒頭を飾る名曲"Never Tell Your Mother She's Out of Tune"の重厚なカヴァーが実に素晴らしいです。
強力推薦盤！

試聴曲は現品からの取り込み音源です。
A1 Heartbeat Of The Street 5:15
Written-By - Bob Hodge, Gary Shider
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A2 Color TV Blues 7:00
Written-By - Bob Hodge
A3 Circus Is In Town 5:00
Written-By - Bob Hodge, Carol Hoffman
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B1 Never Tell Your Mother She's Out Of Tune 6:26
Written-By - Jack Bruce, Pete Brown
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B2 Ten Speed Bike 2:45
Written-By - Bob Hodge, Gary Shider
B3 Living The Blues 5:45
Written-By - Bob Hodge
B4 Birmingham 4:57
Written-By - Bob Hodge, Gary Shider
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Lead Vocals, Guitar - Catfish Hodge (tracks: A1, A2, B3, B4)
Acoustic Guitar - Catfish Hodge (tracks: A3 to B2)
Guitar - Shakey Al Werneken (tracks: B1 to B4), Dallas Hodge (tracks: A1, A2, B1, B2, B4)
Slide Guitar - Jim McCarty (tracks: A1, A2)
Organ - Catfish Hodge (tracks: A1)
Piano - Bob Babitch (tracks: B1 to B4), Catfish Hodge (tracks: A3)
Bass - William H. Landless (tracks: A1, A2, B1 to B4)
Drums - Dave Chambers (3) (tracks: A1, A2, B1 to B4)
Backing Vocals - Dallas Hodge, Phyllis Gore, Rachel O'Brien, Richard Pinkston
Baritone Saxophone - Crispin Cioe (tracks: B1 to B4)
Tenor Saxophone - Crispin Cioe (tracks: A3 to B4)
Trumpet - Carter Threlkeld (tracks: B1 to B4)
Gong - Shakey Al Werneken (tracks: B1)

Producer - Catfish Bob Hodge
Engineer - Ken Sands, Lee De Carlo, Michael Grace, Orson Lewis, Rick Capreol
Design [Album], Photography By - William Sidenstecker
Produced for Eastbound Records.
Recorded at Manta Sound, Toronto, Canada; Motown, Detroit, Michigan; and Artie Fields Studio, Detroit, Michigan.