JCatz is a virtual band, a hodgepodge of musical friends, a folk-rock experiment, and a brainstorm concocted out of a post-run pitcher of brew shared by my niece Jordan Cherry and me a few years ago at NYC’s Dive Bar 96.
There we knocked about ideas about creating an album with friends, and soon we came up with the name J Catz (a play-on-words with our initials) and an album concept — “Can’t We All Just Go Dutch?” with a Simsonsied painting of Van Gogh backed with an ear to match — and we recruited my daughter Julia, who shares the JC pedigree, for visual art and vocals. (It was a tall pitcher. Maybe two.)