Black Cat Bones was a British heavy blues rock group from London. The band formed in 1966 with original members Paul Tiller (vocals and harmonica), lead guitarist Paul Kossoff, brothers Derek Brooks (rhythm guitar) and Stu Brooks (bass), and drummer Terry Sims.[1] The band is perhaps best known for having had Kossoff and Simon Kirke in its lineup. Kossoff and Kirke later joined Free in 1968 and Kirke also became a founding member of Bad Company in 1974. The blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on a pentatonic scale and a characteristic twelve-bar chord progression. ... For other uses, see London (disambiguation) and Defining London (below). ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... Wikibooks has more about this subject: Harmonica A harmonica is a free reed musical wind instrument (also known, among other things, as a mouth organ, French harp, tin sandwich, blues harp, simply harp, or Mississippi saxophone), having multiple, variably-tuned brass or bronze reeds, each secured at one end over... Paul Kossoff (September 14, 1950 - March 19, 1976) was a British rock guitarist well-known and respected for his restrained yet intensely emotive playing style. ... Rhythm guitar is a kind of guitar playing that provides accompaniment for a singer or other instruments. ... There are a range of musical instruments that can be collectively be regarded as bass instruments. ... Free was a British R&B-style rock band which formed in London in 1968 best known for their popular song All Right Now. Lead singer( Paul Rodgers, went on to become lead singer of the rock band Bad Company along with Simon Kirke on drums, while lead guitarist Paul... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Self-titled album cover Bad Company was a British rock band founded in 1973, consisting of band members from Free (Paul Rodgers, Simon Kirke), Mott The Hoople (Mick Ralphs) and King Crimson (Boz Burrell). ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1974 calendar). ...

Black Cat Bones (named after a voodoo talisman associated with blues music) played regularly on the London pub circuit.[2] Early in the band's existence came several personnel changes, with Terry Sims being replaced by drummer Frank Perry. Perry would be replaced in early 1968 [3] by drummer Simon Kirke. Paul Tiller was later replaced by vocalist Brian Short. A large sequined Voodoo drapo or flag by the artist George Valris The term Voodoo (Vodun in Benin; also Vodou or other phonetically equivalent spellings in Haiti; Vudu in the Dominican Republic) is applied to the branches of a West African ancestor-based spiritist-animist religious tradition. ...

The band would soon lose both Paul Kossoff and Simon Kirke, who were replaced by guitarist Rod Price and drummer Phil Lenoir [4]; it was this lineup that recorded Barbed Wire Sandwich, the band's only full-length album. The album was recorded at Tangerine Studios and Decca Studios and released in November 1969. When the album failed to win the band critical acclaim, members Short, Price, and Lenoir left the band, effectively ending its existence. Remaining band members Derek and Stu Brooks were joined by vocalist Pete French and guitarist Mick Halls from the Brunning Sunflower Blues Band; after adding drummer Keith George Young, the outfit became known as the hard rock band Leaf Hound in 1970.[5] Rod Price later went on to greater fame as the guitarist in Foghat starting in 1971. Rod Price (Born: 1947 in London, United Kingdom-March 22, 2005 in Wilton, New Hampshire, United States) was an English guitarist who played for Foghat. ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... Hard rock is a form of rock and roll music which finds its closest roots in early 1960s garage rock and in Jimi Hendrixs psychedelic rock. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ... Foghat was an English rock band that had its greatest success in the mid- to late-1970s. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ...

External links

• Alex Gatlin's Black Cat Bones page