Blast From The Past: The Black Cat Bones – Barbed Wire Sandwich

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After John Cipollina & Quicksilver Messenger Service was brought up on the forum recently, I started looking on You Tube for some of those groups that have been long gone and pretty much forgotten.

Came across an album released in 1969 called Barbed Wire Sandwich by The Black Cat Bones. I had never heard of them before but the guitar playing intrigued me. Really good blues rock playing,. Thanks to Wikipedia, I found out the reason it was so good.
Black Cat Bones was a British heavy blues rock group from London. The band is perhaps best known for having had Paul Kossoff and Simon Kirke in its lineup, both of whom later joined Free in 1968. Kirke also became a founding member of Bad Company in 1974.

Kossoff was ranked 51st in Rolling Stone magazine list of the “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time”

However, this album was recorded just after Kossoff & Simon Kirke had left to form Free. Kossoff was replaced by Rod Price who is best known for his work with Foghat. He was known as ‘The Magician Of Slide’, and ‘Slide King Of Rock And Roll’, due to his slide guitar playing. His slide playing was featured distinctly on Foghat songs “Drivin’ Wheel”, “Stone Blue”, and the group’s biggest hit, “Slow Ride”.

Black Cat Bones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqCTOzbDxJM

Paul Kossoff
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kossoff

Rod Price
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Price

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