Cate Bros. Cate Bros.1975 – Rock (vinyl)

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TheCate Brothersare thesinger-songwriter-musician duo of Earl and Ernest (Ernie) Cate (born December 26, 1942), twin brothers fromFayetteville, Arkansas, who in the mid-1960s became performers of country soul music at clubs and dances in Arkansas and elsewhere in the mid-South of the United States.[1]Both brothers are singers, with Earl playing guitar and Ernie playing piano. They were recording artists during the mid- to late 1970s and again from the mid-1990s through the first decade of the 2000s.

In their hometown of Fayetteville in the 1950s, where rock-and-roll pioneerRonnie Hawkinshad also grown up during the 1940s, Hawkins owned and operated the Rockwood Club. Other early rock musicians came to play there, includingJerry Lee Lewis,Carl Perkins,Roy OrbisonandConway Twitty.

During the late 1950s the Cate brothers associated with Hawkins and his band, the Hawks, including drummerLevon Helm. In 1958 Hawkins and his band left Arkansas and settled in Canada. Later the Hawks went on to form theBand.

In 1975, Helm introduced the Cate brothers to a record company representative in Los Angeles. The brothers soon after received a recording contract withAsylum Records, and so began their recording career.[2]

Their self-titled debut album released in 1975 was produced by guitaristSteve Cropper. He also performed on the record along with Levon Helm,Donald “Duck” Dunn, andPocobass guitaristTimothy B. Schmit(who later joined theEagles). The album contained the duo’s only Top 40 single, “Union Man”, which spent 20 weeks on theBillboardHot 100, peaking at #24 in May 1976.[3]

Two more albums followed,In One Eye and out the Otherin 1976 andCate Bros. Band(with drummer Terry Cagle and bassist Ron Eoff) in 1977.

In 1979 they reached a wider audience when they appeared on thePBSmusic television programAustin City Limits, taped in December 1978.[4]

In 1979 the brothers released their fourth and final album of the period,Fire on the Tracks, which reached number 24 on the album rock charts on the success of “Union Man”. That single was one of the songs they had performed during theAustin City Limitstelevision show, leading up to the album’s release.

During the 1980s they issued no recordings, though they remained a popular touring act around the southern country rock and blues circuit of the Tennessee and Arkansas region.

In the early 1980s, the brothers joined Levon Helm,Rick Danko,Richard Manuel, andGarth Hudsonin a revival of theBand(without guitaristRobbie Robertson) and also worked with singerMaria Muldaur.

The Cate brothers resumed recording in the mid-1990s, releasing five albums onindependent labelsfrom 1995 to 2009.

Their 1995 release,Radioland, featured blues guitaristCoco Montoya, formerly with the 1980s reformed version ofJohn Mayall & the Bluesbreakers.

Porky Hill, the drummer for the Cate Brothers Band for 12 years, died in September 2000. Ron Eoff’s brother Mickey then joined the band.

Label:Asylum Records 7ES-1050Format:Vinyl, LP, Album, StereoCountry:CanadaReleased:1975Genre:Rock

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