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

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

LOVE&JETT and to have a hand in supporting Guitar Wolf's noisy and canonical rise to their rightful place in underground music's highest hall of fame

Like all RK albums before and since

pressed at Third Man Pressing

” — Sampson Starkweather

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