Bear Cat The Exploding Hearts "Texas Funeral" has enjoyed a

"Texas Funeral" has enjoyed a long life as an underground cult classic

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Third Man Records worked solidly for a year-and-a-half to make this record available again

accompanied by Zac Sokolow also on fiddle

carefully absorbing and recording their magnetic and unforgettable live set on the Blue Room stage

Bear Cat The Exploding Hearts "Texas Funeral" has enjoyed aOriginally released in 1953, "Bear Cat" by Rufus Thomas is as certifiable a primitive R'n'B smoker that's ever existed. Complete with the inimitable Joe Hill Louis on guitar, the future "Funky Chicken" Thomas gives his male perspective answer record to Big Mama Thornton's "Hound Dog." In the process, the legal powers behind "Hound Dog" writers Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller won a lawsuit claiming "Bear Cat" infringed on the duo's copyright. Ever since