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(FTRCD021) 2023
World-touring acoustic blues pioneer CATFISH KEITH presents his 22nd album, Wild Ox Moan, an all-new 15-song collection of four originals, and ripe reinvented classic songs from Vera Hall, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Big Bill Broonzy, Blind Joe Taggart, Rev. Edward W. Clayborn, Nancy Wilson, Sons of the Pioneers, Lil Son Jackson, Blind Blake and more.
This was recorded in late August, 2023. Catfish says, “Our tenth album project at Luke Tweedy’s Flat Black Studios! The room just vibrates beautifully with all the guitars in there, and that comes through in these recordings. Hope you love it as much as I enjoyed playing for you.”
Catfish Keith was born in East Chicago, Indiana, in 1962. Since the late 1970s, he has been touring North America, the UK, Ireland, Europe and Asia, spellbinding audiences everywhere he goes. In autumn 2023 Catfish will embark on his 52nd concert tour of the UK & Europe since 1992, and the journey continues.
Catfish won four BLUES BLAST MUSIC AWARDS — for BEST ACOUSTIC BLUES ALBUM in 2022, 2021 and 2019, and in 2022 for BEST ACOUSTIC GUITARIST. He has been nominated six times since 1993 for BLUES MUSIC AWARDS, and considered for nominations for GRAMMY AWARDS seventeen times. In 2008 he was inducted into the IA BLUES HALL OF FAME.
His albums get continued airplay, and have reached NUMBER ONE on hundreds of radio stations around the globe. He has performed with legends Ray Charles, John Lee Hooker, Robert Cray, Johnny Shines, Jessie Mae Hemphill, Leo Kottke, John Fahey, The Everly Brothers, and many others.
“Hypnotic and beautiful, dark and pure.” – Premier Guitar
“A solo revelation.” – The Guardian
15 cuts include: Don’t Know Right from Wrong, One Dime, God’s Gonna Separate, Wild Ox Moan, World Gone Wrong, Saturday Night Rub, Swim Deep Pretty Mama, Your Close Friend, How Glad I Am, I’m Going Home, Cool Water, Spinach for Old Popeye, Milford Drowning, Come On Boys Let’s Do That Messaround, Mole’s Moan
