Every Tuesday we go live on Facebook with a themed set of some kind
#TrashCatTuesday – Episode 10 10 Episodes! Feels like a landmark and we want to thank all of you for sticking with us through this journey. Now down to business. This was a tough one. We didn’t set out to play the most depressing set we’ve ever played, but it happened. There is some heavy material Read more about Mental Health 1[…]
#TrashCatTuesday – Episode 9 “This is a song about the end of the world” It’s a phrase we say kind of a lot in out live shows. If we do 3 or 4 in a row people tend to take notice. It gets a few chuckles. The truth is, we know a lot of songs Read more about Apocalypse MEOW[…]
#TrashCatTuesday – Episode 8 The best laid plans… Am I referencing our inability to learn the America songs we meant to? Or am I referring to the American Experiment itself. In both cases, things didn’t go the way they were meant to. We had high hopes of wowing you all with Simon & Garfunkle’s America Read more about The Americats[…]
#TrashCatTuesday – Episode 7 Pub rock? Bar band? Absolute perfection? We’ve been called ’em all. If you play an acoustic guitar it’s basically required that you learn a drinking song or 2. We know a lot of them, and have forgotten even more. This weeks selection is a few of our favorite drinking song. It’s Read more about Drinking Songs[…]
#TrashCatTuesday – Episode 6 This weeks episode was born out of necessity. When you play as many dinner shows as we have over the years, you develop a keen eye for who is in your audience. Are we able to drop an f-bomb or 2? Or is that a 10 year old kid eating with Read more about Radio Edits[…]
#TrashCatTuesday – Episode 5 Music has the power to evoke emotions in many different ways. Songwriters spend their lives trying to make a listener feel something with just the sound of a chord or melody. The fun can then come from matching these feeling inducing chords and melodies with lyrics…or sometimes mismatching This episode takes Read more about Merry Misery[…]
#TrashCatTuesday – Episode 4 DADGAD: Fun to say, and even more fun to play! On a recent live stream by Frank Turner, he spoke a bit about the alternate tuning he’d used to write and record a couple of our favorite tracks of his. Realizing that we had a couple of extra guitars laying around Read more about DADGAD[…]
#TrashCatTuesday – Episode 3 One of our favorite tricks to pull out is to take the paws off the instruments for a second and just sing. There is a certain rush that one gets from singing A Capella, especially when you know you have to hit the chords on the instruments soon and simply hope Read more about The Dropouts[…]
#TrashCatTuesday – Episode 2 Welcome back Cats and Kittens! This weeks theme was Stuck Inside. We are all living in this weird space right now in which we are all a little more bound to the house than perhaps we would like. Especially now as we pass the 2 month mark of COVID Restricted life, Read more about Stuck Inside[…]
Welcome to #TrashCatTuesday! Each week we will be going live on Facebook at 6pm CST to play a short themed set! Our goal is to make this content available on as many platforms as possible, so keep an eye out for more details on that! While this idea was, of course, born out of necessity,it Read more about The Classic Open[…]