Bear Cat The Exploding Hearts ” — Sampson Starkweather

” — Sampson Starkweather

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

remembered as one of the central figures of the 1960's yé-yé pop movement

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

Redd Kross are one of those rare bands who would be equally at home in a dark punk club and on stage at the Enormodome

Bear Cat The Exploding Hearts ” — Sampson StarkweatherOriginally 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