Today (12 May 2026, Tuesday) the Jim Jones All Stars’ Cat Fight CD arrived at my home. I seldom buy new music offerings but I knew Cat Fight was one I had to have in my CD collection. I made sure to crank the volume way up to make sure the album was sonically fuming before I pressed the Play button.
Listening to Jim Jones All Stars’ Cat Fight CD is an invigorating shock to one’s aural facility and moral decency. Once in a many bluest of moons, have I felt this raw, DIY, zero-f**ks given, sonic excitement. I felt spiritually invigorated but morally depleted after 45:54 minutes.
In the past, it was “Exile On Main Street” by the Rolling Stones, “Never Mind The Bollocks” by the Sex Pistols, “The B-52’s” by the B-52’s and “We Started Nothing” by the Ting Tings.
My Jim Jones All Stars’ Cat Fight CD (above image). Besides the the back cover, there’s nothing else. No album booklet, no band or song credits. No nada.
Jim Jones All Stars is like Tom Waits and Link Wray joined the Black Keys to form another swamp band with dirtier amps and cheaper speakers.
Released in 3 April 2026, the album is produced by Chris Robinson of the Black Crowes. It also boasts of vocals by Gloria Jones (Mrs. Marc Bolan).
The album was recorded in Bakerland Studios in Leeds and West Eleven Studios in London. There was certainly some mystic mojo in the studio air-conditioning.
Great “First Encounter” Albums (above image). Raw, “don’t give a damn”, “this is who we are” music then. Still fresh today, decades later.
Play the Jim Jones All Stars’ Cat Fight album very loud, it’ll drive the demons out from your house, including your mother-in-law! And your neighbours get to listen to great music!
Dump the Therapist, go buy the album!
