Bear Cat The Exploding Hearts Like all RK albums before

Like all RK albums before and since

SLIPMAT NOT INCLUDED

- Grammy winning and multi-platinum musician Jack White produced every session

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

Bear Cat The Exploding Hearts Like all RK albums beforeOriginally 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