Disturbing The Peace [CD]

REPORTS FROM EXPERT WITNESSES:

"The music is hot, jumping, and made for dancing." --Bob Claypool, HOUSTON POST
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"You're dangerous with that guitar, man. They're gonna put you in jail!" --JOHN LEE HOOKER to Little Charlie
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"Rick Estrin is a beautifully outrageous harmonica player."--Hank Reineke, EAST COAST ROCKER
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"Little Charlie and the Nightcats play rollicking bar blues --'jump blues.' Basing themselves in Sacramento since 1976, guitarist Little Charlie Baty and vocalist/harmonica wizard Rick Estrin created a unique personal sound. It's a sound that evolved over ten years of playing in small clubs for people who wanted to drink and dance away their working day troubles. The Nightcats deliver a big beat, instrumental virtuosity and outrageous humor. These guys don't escape from reality; they laugh at it." --Lawrence Brauer, BAM MAGAZINE (San Francisco)
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"...unalloyed world class. The Nightcats deliver the most vibrant, irresistible 'jumping blues' you could wish to dance your life away to." --Phil Sutcliffe, Q MAGAZINE (London)
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"Baty's playing meshes Charlie Christian, Carl Perkins, and T-BoneWalker...he scampers over the fretboard at a speed that would make Chuck Yeager squirm." --Jim Maloney, L.A. MUSIC CONNECTION
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"It really came together when we got the right rhythm section.We'd been playing some of these songs for years, but they didn't sound right until we got Jay Peterson on bass and Dobie Strange on drums." --Little Charlie in THE SACRAMENTO UNION
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"Peterson paid his dues with the Otis Rush Band in Chicago in the early 70's, and later with the Dynatones and harpist Charlie Musselwhite. Strange toured extensively with soul and rock acts, including the Platters, before he turned to blues and the Nightcats."--Richard Bammer, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
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"Until recently, the group was one of the hottest club attractions in the Bay Area and turned in some killer performances at major blues festivals on the West Coast. But one good thing led to another and the band was signed to Alligator Records. The resulting LP, All TheWay Crazy, is one of the best R&B debut works of '87. Now the group is in demand everywhere." --Bob Claypool, HOUSTON POST
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"Slithering out of California, this quartet is so low down that the band members have to pull their socks down to see...Baty is a walking encyclopedia of blues, jazz, and rock 'n' roll guitar. Estrin has the look and rap of either a pimp or a used Cadillac salesman. And his harp playing has the wail of a tomcat under a full moon."--Sid Silvertone, WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL
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"Little Charlie is an absolute terror on the fretboard."--PHOENIX NEW TIMES
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"Baty hops about like a crazy man, dripping sweat and rising up and down on his toes during the solos as if the guitar were trying to pull him off the ground." --Michael Heminger, INDIANA DAILY STUDENT