Cat Mother And The All Night Newsboys - Albion Doo Wah (Reissue) (1970/2013)

Cat Mother and The All Night Newsboys was an American musical group, originally formed in New York and later based in Mendocino, California, most active in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

After the success of their Jimi Hendrix-produced debut album The Street Giveth…and the Street Taketh Away (also available from Real Gone) and its hit "Good Old Rock 'N' Roll," the members of Cat Mother moved to a cabin outside of Mendocino (pictured in the album gatefold reproduced here) and started writing songs for Albion Doo-Wah. The record had much more pastoral, country feel to it, no doubt in part due to the replacement of Charlie Chin by multi-instrumentalist folkie Jay Ungar, who also brought several songs to the group. But there was definitely something in the air in the late-'60s/early '70s Northern California scene; Albion Doo-Wah has several scoops of that timeless, Americana-laced fairy dust found on albums by such acts as the Charlatans, Dan Hicks and Clover (also available from Real Gone). CD debut, and one long, long requested by the band's fans, with a gorgeous remastering job by Maria Triana at Battery Studios.