Little Charlie & the Nightcats - Captured Live

One of the hardest-working barroom blues bands on the West Coast, Little Charlie & the Nightcats started out in the mid-'70s, began recording around a decade later, and just kept on going strong. The two constants over the Nightcats' long history were co-founders Little Charlie Baty (guitar) and Rick Estrin (harmonica, lead vocals). Baty's biting licks were the perfect complement to Estrin's devil-may-care swagger and wryly humorous, storytelling lyrics, and that combo was enough to maintain a decades-long career as a popular live act all across the blues circuit. The band's music relies chiefly on electric urban blues of the Chicago variety, but mixes in bits of many other compatible styles, including early rock & roll, soul, surf, swing, jump blues, and Western swing.

Tracklist:
1. Tomorrow Night - Little Charlie & the Nightcats, Wells, Junior
2. Run Me Down - Little Charlie & the Nightcats, Brown
3. Rain - Little Charlie & the Nightcats, Estrin, Rick
4. Dump That Chump - Little Charlie & the Nightcats, Estrin, Rick
5. Ten Years Ago - Little Charlie & the Nightcats, Guy, Buddy
6. Thinking With the Wrong Head - Little Charlie & the Nightcats, Estrin, Rick
7. Wildcattin' - Little Charlie & the Nightcats, Baty, Little Charli
8. Crawling Kingsnake - Little Charlie & the Nightcats, Williamson, Sonny B
9. Smart Kike Einstein - Little Charlie & the Nightcats, Estrin, Rick
10. Eyes Like a Cat - Little Charlie & the Nightcats, Phillips