Estrin, Rick & The Nightcats - Contemporary [CD]

Celebrates the band's uncanny ability to use tough blues and raucous roadhouse rock as jumping off points for exhilarating new roots music. Originals combine savvy songwriting, instrumental prowess and perpetual grooves in a distinctively modern blues sound, highlighted by the epic title track, a dizzying, Zappa-esque mash of Chicago blues, uptown funk, balls-out rocking and muscular rapping.  "Hugely entertaining, intelligently conceived and executed roots rock with a wickedly cool and otherworldly twist on tradition. Estrin’s harp work is masterful" —Living Blues