Name: Cat Head Biscuit Boys
Start: 2024-11-17T19:00:00-06:00
Location: Hideaway on Lee

"Sparked by an unusual musical alliance that occured organically almost a decade and a half ago between three friends who thought logically that a band might not be a bad idea, Cat Head Biscuit Boys was originally conceived by Lafayette guitar legend Bruce "Weasel" MacDonald, former Clickin' Chicken fiddler Ben Shank, and Lafayette transplanted radio DJ, song warbler and mandocrucian, Roger Kash. The band performed live with various rhythm sections including Dr. Josef Butts on bass and Charles Vincent on drums. In the last incarnation of the band, Mississippi transplant Eric Moody played stand-up bass and the band employed various drummers - or sometimes no drummer at all. The Cat Heads released an EP on the local Valcour Records label in 2017 which featured the late David Egan's previously unreleased gem, "Creole Tomato." The band stopped playing shows a few years ago when guitarist and vocalist Bruce MacDonald began having serious health problems which he sadly finally succumbed to in March of 2022. There was much hesitation in deciding to put the band back together but Ben & Roger decided the band must go on. The search for a guitar player ended when they recruited their bass player's talented son, Ethan Moody, to fill the guitar chair, which he did admirably. Technically a string band, the Biscuits play a wide array of material not often associated with string bands per say, featuring interesting tunes from all eras that range from Jelly Roll Morton to John Prine, from Riley Puckett to Radiohead, with a few originals sprinkled in here and there in true Biscuits fashion. Cat Head Biscuit Boys V 2.0 are back in action, catch 'em while they're hot.