“December Album of the Month: The Caution Cat record Heavy Light Years from 2016. A new twelve song record released on March 8th of this year. Each week we will add more songs from the record so by Christmas all the tunes will be streaming for free. As of 12-16-16 all the songs are now streaming along with the Lucky Number Eight album. The link below is for Heavy Light Years Amazon page.” - HEAVY LIGHT YEARS
“November Album of the Month: LUCKY NUMBER EIGHT named so because it is Caution Cat's eighth album of original home recorded musical ditties and it has a photo of a whole rabbit and not just a "lucky rabbit's foot" This photo of the animal was taken outside of the band's demo studio during some recording sessions of songs in the Autumn of 2013. All ten tunes from the record are streaming on our player in an alternate song order from the original release song order. The link below is for the download on Amazon.” - LUCKY NUMBER EIGHT
“ROCKTOBER Album of the Month: Caution Cat's FORTUNE FIRE FLY was originally a twelve song album but the band decided to add three of the outtakes as a bonus for a grand total of fifteen. The three bonus songs are Emergency, Once upon a Life and Dirty Windows which is one the tunes streaming now. All the songs were recorded in the band's demo studio on a Korg 32 track. Lots of different guitars played including Gibson, Fender, Paul Reed Smith, Univox, Vantage, Ibanez, Danelectro, Epiphone, Guitar Works, First Act and Cordoba with a Fender amp and a Line 6 amp. Bass was recorded direct into the multitrack. Other instrument features: trumpet and trombone played by Karen on Annie Moon, My dancing days are over and Dirty Windows. She also plays guitar and sings harmony vocals on Let me fly, Dirty Windows and Give it up for the Dreamers. VJ plays distorted acoustic guitar and slide guitar on I got my reasons, synthesizers on Once upon a life, Sideshow and a bit of ukulele on Blue Jean Junkie. Chris takes care of acoustic drums and acoustic percussion. This may be the first record in a while that does not have Melodica. Lance Koehler at Minimum Wage Recording did further eq and effect tweeking directly on our multi-track and we sent the music into his studio system for mastering. The band did some additional recording at Minimum Wage: guitar solo, piano and back up vocals on Dirty Windows. Bass guitar on Sideshow. Maybe some other back up vocals here and there but its hard to remember every detail. Two of the songs from the record are in two different tv shows. Dirty Windows is on The League (FX network) and Let Me Fly is on Julia Zemiro's Home Delivery (ABC 1 Australia) The art and cd manufacturing was put together by Revolve in Richmond VA. The link below is for the album on iTunes. ” - Fortune Fire Fly
“September Album of the Month: Show Business Donkey from 2010 is the second Caution Cat record to feature several music friends on various instruments & vocals for all the songs: Chris Williams on acoustic drums/percussion and Karen Shealy plays guitars, bass, trumpet/trombone and vocals. VJ sings lead and plays guitars, bass & keyboards. This is the first Caution Cat record to be recorded entirely in the bands 12 x 24 foot demo studio nestled deep within a commercial building in Richmond VA. We started with Chris' drums in one corner of the room but then moved the kit to the middle side of the studio midway through recording. Both locations offered different sounds and ambience. This record is also the first time we started using a click track for the foundation recording. About 8 of the tunes were tracked with the band playing together live. I Got Maria and Gift of Gab for example. The other 6 tunes were tracked using a click such as Spirits Away and Birdhouse as two more examples. The Empire State features Karen on lead guitar and VJ on Uke. This version is an alternate mix. Revolve features Karen and VJ on vocals/percussion and some sound FX of crowded party sounds and cat purrs. Uke solo by VJ and a sampler was used to sample the band's handclaps that could then be placed anywhere needed. Lean On Somebody contains Karen's bass & Tele and Strat guitars with vocals by VJ & Karen. Ragdoll Dust has classical guitar, synth and melodica by VJ with additional drums by Lance Koehler. Spirits Away is a slight play on the words "spirited away" and has some fake cello playing created using a bow on the lower strings of an acoustic guitar played by VJ. Chris plays numerous percussion instruments with Karen singing harmonies. Instruments include Guitar Works and Alvarez acoustics, Yamaha and Ibanez Classical guitars, Fender, Epiphone and Paul Reed Smith electrics, a vintage Univox hollow body guitar, a Yamaha Piano/Synth keyboard, a Casio synth and a Cordoba uke. The record was signed to a publishing deal with a company in New York and has song placements in the movies Wet Behind The Ears and Undocumented, on the television shows LA INK, HUGE and PLAIN JANE and with Macys corporate. All are now available on DVD and streaming. Mixing and mastering on the complete record by Lance Koehler at Minimum Wage Studios straight from our Korg multi-track. Art work and CD manufacturing was done by Disc Makers in New Jersey. Click on the title Amazon link below to purchase the album. ” - SHOW BUSINESS DONKEY
